עַם
ampeopleHow to read Hebrew
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.
Traditional renderings: folk, men, nation, people.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עַם:
Glossary entries
Usage patterns
Occurrences
1,868 total
- Isaiah 52:6עַמִּ֖י · My peopleTherefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”
- Isaiah 52:9עַמּ֔וֹ · His peopleBreak forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 53:8עַמִּ֖י · of My peopleBy oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
- Isaiah 56:3עַמּ֑וֹ · His peopleLet no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
- Isaiah 56:7הָעַמִּֽים׃ · the nationsI will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.”
- Isaiah 57:14עַמִּֽי׃ס · of My peopleAnd it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”
- Isaiah 58:1לְעַמִּי֙ · to My people“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.
- Isaiah 60:21וְעַמֵּךְ֙ · your peopleThen all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
- Isaiah 61:9הָעַמִּ֑ים · the peoplesTheir descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.
- Isaiah 62:10הָעָ֑ם · for the people; הָעַמִּֽים׃ · the nationsGo out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!
- Isaiah 62:12עַם־ · PeopleAnd they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
- Isaiah 63:3וּמֵֽעַמִּים֙ · from the nations“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
- Isaiah 63:6עַמִּים֙ · the nationsI trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”
- Isaiah 63:8עַמִּ֣י · My peopleFor He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.
- Isaiah 63:11עַמּ֑וֹ · Then His peopleThen His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
- Isaiah 63:14עַמְּךָ֔ · Your peopleLike cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.
- Isaiah 63:18עַם־ · Your peopleFor a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.
- Isaiah 64:9עַמְּךָ֥ · Your peopleDo not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
- Isaiah 65:2עַ֣ם · peopleAll day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
- Isaiah 65:3הָעָ֗ם · to a people…to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
- Isaiah 65:10לְעַמִּ֖י · for My peopleSharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for My people who seek Me.
- Isaiah 65:18וְעַמָּ֥הּ · and its peopleBut be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.
- Isaiah 65:19בְעַמִּ֑י · in My peopleI will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.
- Isaiah 65:22עַמִּ֔י · of My peopleNo longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.
- Jeremiah 1:18וּלְעַ֥ם · and the peopleNow behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
- Jeremiah 2:11וְעַמִּ֛י · But My peopleHas a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
- Jeremiah 2:13עַמִּ֑י · My people“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- Jeremiah 2:31עַמִּי֙ · do My peopleYou people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
- Jeremiah 2:32וְעַמִּ֣י · Yet My peopleDoes a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
- Jeremiah 4:10לָעָ֤ם · peopleThen I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”
- Jeremiah 4:11לָֽעָם־ · people; עַמִּ֑י · of My peopleAt that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;
- Jeremiah 4:22עַמִּ֗י · My people“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
- Jeremiah 5:14וְהָעָ֥ם · peopleTherefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
- Jeremiah 5:21עַ֥ם · people“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
- Jeremiah 5:23וְלָעָ֤ם · peopleBut these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
- Jeremiah 5:26בְעַמִּ֖י · My peopleFor among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
- Jeremiah 5:31וְעַמִּ֖י · My peopleThe prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
- Jeremiah 6:14עַמִּי֙ · of My peopleThey dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
- Jeremiah 6:19הָעָ֥ם · peopleHear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
- Jeremiah 6:21הָעָ֥ם · peopleTherefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; friends and neighbors will perish.”
- Jeremiah 6:22עַ֥ם · an armyThis is what the LORD says: “Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.
- Jeremiah 6:26עַמִּ֤י · of my peopleO daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
- Jeremiah 6:27בְעַמִּ֖י · My people“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.
- Jeremiah 7:12עַמִּ֥י · of My peopleBut go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
- Jeremiah 7:16הָעָ֣ם · peopleAs for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
- Jeremiah 7:23לְעָ֑ם · people…but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
- Jeremiah 7:33הָעָ֤ם · peopleThe corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
- Jeremiah 8:5הָעָ֥ם · peopleWhy then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.