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.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עַם:

Glossary entries

Amaw

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,868 total
  1. Isaiah 2:6עַמְּךָ֙ · Your people
    For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
  2. Isaiah 3:5הָעָ֔ם · The people
    The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.
  3. Isaiah 3:7עָֽם׃ · of the people
    On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”
  4. Isaiah 3:12עַמִּי֙ · My people; עַמִּי֙ · O My people
    Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.
  5. Isaiah 3:13עַמִּֽים׃ · the people
    The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.
  6. Isaiah 3:14עַמּ֖וֹ · of His people
    The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
  7. Isaiah 3:15עַמִּ֔י · My people
    Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
  8. Isaiah 5:13עַמִּ֖י · My people
    Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
  9. Isaiah 5:25בְּעַמּ֜וֹ · against His people
    Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
  10. Isaiah 6:5עַם־ · a people
    Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
  11. Isaiah 6:9לָעָ֣ם · people
    And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
  12. Isaiah 6:10הָעָ֣ם · people
    Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
  13. Isaiah 7:2עַמּ֔וֹ · and his people
    When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.
  14. Isaiah 7:8מֵעָֽם׃ · as a people
    For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.
  15. Isaiah 7:17עַמְּךָ֮ · your people
    The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”
  16. Isaiah 8:6הָעָ֣ם · people
    “Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
  17. Isaiah 8:9עַמִּים֙ · O peoples
    Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!
  18. Isaiah 8:11הָֽעָם־ · people
    For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:
  19. Isaiah 8:12הָעָ֥ם · people
    “Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.
  20. Isaiah 8:19עַם֙ · a people
    When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
  21. Isaiah 9:2הָעָם֙ · The people
    The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
  22. Isaiah 9:9הָעָ֣ם · the people
    All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:
  23. Isaiah 9:13וְהָעָ֥ם · But the people
    But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
  24. Isaiah 9:16הָֽעָם־ · this people
    For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.
  25. Isaiah 9:19הָעָם֙ · and the people
    By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.
  26. Isaiah 10:2עַמִּ֑י · of My people
    …to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
  27. Isaiah 10:6עַ֥ם · a people
    I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
  28. Isaiah 10:13עַמִּ֗ים · of nations
    For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
  29. Isaiah 10:14הָֽעַמִּ֔ים · of the nations
    My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
  30. Isaiah 10:22עַמְּךָ֤ · your people
    Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
  31. Isaiah 10:24עַמִּ֛י · O My people
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, who strikes you with a rod and lifts his staff against you as the Egyptians did.
  32. Isaiah 11:10עַמִּ֔ים · for the peoples
    On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
  33. Isaiah 11:11עַמּ֑וֹ · of His people
    On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
  34. Isaiah 11:16עַמּ֔וֹ · of His people
    There will be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.
  35. Isaiah 12:4בָֽעַמִּ֖ים · among the peoples
    …and on that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD; proclaim His name! Make His works known among the peoples; declare that His name is exalted.
  36. Isaiah 13:4עַם־ · multitude
    Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.
  37. Isaiah 13:14עַמּוֹ֙ · his own people
    Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.
  38. Isaiah 14:2עַמִּים֮ · The nations
    The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
  39. Isaiah 14:6עַמִּים֙ · the peoples
    It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
  40. Isaiah 14:20עַמְּךָ֣ · your own people
    You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
  41. Isaiah 14:32עַמּֽוֹ׃ס · people
    What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
  42. Isaiah 17:12עַמִּ֣ים · peoples
    Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
  43. Isaiah 18:2עַ֥ם · a people
    …which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
  44. Isaiah 18:7עַ֚ם · from a people; וּמֵעַ֥ם · from a people
    At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
  45. Isaiah 19:25עַמִּ֜י · My people
    The LORD of Hosts will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt My people, Assyria My handiwork, and Israel My inheritance.”
  46. Isaiah 22:4עַמִּֽי׃ · of my people
    Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
  47. Isaiah 23:13הָעָם֙ · a people
    Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.
  48. Isaiah 24:2כָעָם֙ · people
    …people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.