עַם

hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine1,868 occurrences39 books1,655 verses
This word comes from the names of Amaw and People's Gate.

Definition

from H6004; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
Traditional renderings: folk, men, nation, people.

Glossary entries

Amaw

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,868 total
  1. 2 Chronicles 6:29עַמְּךָ֣ · Your people
    …then may whatever prayer or plea Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
  2. 2 Chronicles 6:32מֵעַמְּךָ֣ · of Your people
    And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
  3. 2 Chronicles 6:33עַמֵּ֨י · the peoples; כְּעַמְּךָ֣ · as [do] Your people
    …then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
  4. 2 Chronicles 6:34עַמְּךָ֤ · Your people
    When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of this city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
  5. 2 Chronicles 6:39לְעַמְּךָ֖ · Your people
    …then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and pleas, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.
  6. 2 Chronicles 7:4הָעָ֑ם · the people
    Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
  7. 2 Chronicles 7:5הָעָֽם׃ · the people
    And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
  8. 2 Chronicles 7:10הָעָ֖ם · [Solomon] sent the people; עַמּֽוֹ׃ · and for His people
    On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.
  9. 2 Chronicles 7:13בְּעַמִּֽי׃ · among My people
    If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,
  10. 2 Chronicles 7:14עַמִּ֜י · and if My people
    …and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
  11. 2 Chronicles 7:20הָעַמִּֽים׃ · the peoples
    …then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
  12. 2 Chronicles 8:7הָ֠עָם · the people
    As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites)—
  13. 2 Chronicles 8:10בָּעָֽם׃
    They were also the chief officers for King Solomon: 250 supervisors.
  14. 2 Chronicles 10:5הָעָֽם׃ס · So the people
    Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.
  15. 2 Chronicles 10:6לָֽעָם־ · people
    Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
  16. 2 Chronicles 10:7לְהָעָ֤ם · people
    They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
  17. 2 Chronicles 10:9הָעָ֣ם · people
    He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
  18. 2 Chronicles 10:10לָעָם֩ · these people
    The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
  19. 2 Chronicles 10:12הָעָ֛ם · the people
    After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
  20. 2 Chronicles 10:15הָעָ֑ם · the people
    So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
  21. 2 Chronicles 10:16הָעָ֣ם · to them
    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,
  22. 2 Chronicles 12:3לָעָ֞ם · troops
    …with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.
  23. 2 Chronicles 13:9כְּעַמֵּ֣י · as do the peoples
    But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for yourselves as do the peoples of other lands? Now whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of things that are not gods.
  24. 2 Chronicles 13:17וְעַמּ֖וֹ · and his people
    Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.
  25. 2 Chronicles 14:13וְהָעָ֣ם · and his army
    Then Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell and could not recover, for they were crushed before the LORD and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great amount of plunder
  26. 2 Chronicles 16:10הָעָ֖ם · the people
    Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
  27. 2 Chronicles 17:9בָּעָֽם׃ · the people
    They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the LORD. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.
  28. 2 Chronicles 18:2וְלָעָ֖ם · and the people
    And some years later he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria, where Ahab sacrificed many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him and urged him to march up to Ramoth-gilead.
  29. 2 Chronicles 18:3וּכְעַמְּךָ֣ · your people; עַמִּ֔י · and my people [are]
    Ahab king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat replied, “I am as you are, and my people are your people; we will join you in the war.”
  30. 2 Chronicles 18:27עַמִּ֥ים · you people
    But Micaiah replied, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take heed, all you people!”
  31. 2 Chronicles 19:4בָעָ֗ם · among the people
    Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
  32. 2 Chronicles 20:7עַמְּךָ֣ · Your people
    Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?
  33. 2 Chronicles 20:21הָעָ֔ם · the people
    Then Jehoshaphat consulted with the people and appointed those who would sing to the LORD and praise the splendor of His holiness. As they went out before the army, they were singing: “Give thanks to the LORD, for His loving devotion endures forever.”
  34. 2 Chronicles 20:25וְעַמּוֹ֮ · and his people
    Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables—more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.
  35. 2 Chronicles 20:33הָעָם֙ · the people
    The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
  36. 2 Chronicles 21:14בְּעַמֶּ֑ךָ · your people
    So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.
  37. 2 Chronicles 21:19עַמּ֛וֹ · And his people
    This continued day after day until two full years had passed. Finally, his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died in severe pain. And his people did not make a fire in his honor as they had done for his fathers.
  38. 2 Chronicles 23:5הָעָ֔ם · the others
    …a third shall be at the royal palace, and a third at the Foundation Gate, while all the others are to be in the courtyards of the house of the LORD.
  39. 2 Chronicles 23:6הָעָ֔ם · the people
    No one is to enter the house of the LORD except the priests and those Levites who serve; they may enter because they are consecrated, but all the people are to obey the requirement of the LORD.
  40. 2 Chronicles 23:10הָעָ֜ם · the troops
    He stationed all the troops, with their weapons in hand, surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
  41. 2 Chronicles 23:12הָעָם֙ · of the people; הָעָ֖ם · [them]
    When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and cheering the king, she went out to them in the house of the LORD.
  42. 2 Chronicles 23:13עַ֨ם · the people
    And she looked and saw the king standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, while the singers with musical instruments were leading the praises. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!”
  43. 2 Chronicles 23:16הָעָ֖ם · and the people; לְעָ֖ם · people
    Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people.
  44. 2 Chronicles 23:17הָעָ֤ם · the people
    So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
  45. 2 Chronicles 23:20בָּעָ֜ם · of the people
    And he took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate. They seated King Joash on the royal throne,