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. Jeremiah 8:7וְעַמִּ֕י · but My people
    Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
  2. Jeremiah 8:11עַמִּי֙ · of My people
    They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
  3. Jeremiah 8:19עַמִּ֗י · of my people
    Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
  4. Jeremiah 8:21עַמִּ֖י · of my people
    For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
  5. Jeremiah 8:22עַמִּֽי׃ · of my people
    Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
  6. Jeremiah 9:1עַמִּֽי׃ · of my people
    Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
  7. Jeremiah 9:2עַמִּ֔י · my people
    If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
  8. Jeremiah 9:7עַמִּֽי׃ · of My people
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?
  9. Jeremiah 9:15הָעָ֥ם · people
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
  10. Jeremiah 10:3הָֽעַמִּ֖ים · of the peoples
    For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
  11. Jeremiah 11:4לְעָ֔ם · people
    …which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
  12. Jeremiah 11:14הָעָ֣ם · people
    As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.
  13. Jeremiah 12:14עַמִּ֖י · to My people
    This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
  14. Jeremiah 12:16עַמִּ֜י · of My people; עַמִּ֔י · My people; עַמִּֽי׃ · My people
    And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.
  15. Jeremiah 13:10הָעָם֩ · people
    These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.
  16. Jeremiah 13:11לְעָ֔ם · people
    For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.
  17. Jeremiah 14:10לָעָ֣ם · people
    This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”
  18. Jeremiah 14:11הָעָ֥ם · people
    Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
  19. Jeremiah 14:16וְהָעָ֣ם · And the people
    And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
  20. Jeremiah 14:17עַמִּ֔י · of my people
    You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.
  21. Jeremiah 15:1הָעָ֣ם · people
    Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!
  22. Jeremiah 15:7עַמִּ֔י · My people
    I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.
  23. Jeremiah 15:20לָעָ֣ם · people
    Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.
  24. Jeremiah 16:5הָעָ֤ם־ · people
    Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.
  25. Jeremiah 16:10לָעָ֣ם · people
    When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’
  26. This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.
  27. Jeremiah 18:15עַמִּ֖י · My people
    Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
  28. Jeremiah 19:1הָעָ֔ם · of the people
    This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,
  29. Jeremiah 19:11הָעָ֤ם · nation
    …and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
  30. Jeremiah 19:14הָעָֽם׃ס · the people
    Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,
  31. Jeremiah 21:7הָעָ֡ם · and the people
    ‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
  32. Jeremiah 21:8הָעָ֤ם · people
    Furthermore, you are to tell this people that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
  33. Jeremiah 22:2וְעַמְּךָ֔ · and your people
    …saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.
  34. Jeremiah 22:4וְעַמּֽוֹ׃ · and their people
    For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.
  35. Jeremiah 23:2עַמִּי֒ · My people
    Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.
  36. Jeremiah 23:13עַמִּ֖י · and led My people
    “Among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.
  37. Jeremiah 23:22עַמִּ֔י · to My people
    But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”
  38. Jeremiah 23:27עַמִּי֙ · {will make} My people
    They suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.
  39. Jeremiah 23:32עַמִּ֔י · to lead My people; לָֽעָם־ · people
    “Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.
  40. Jeremiah 23:33הָעָ֨ם · people
    “Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’
  41. Jeremiah 23:34וְהָעָ֔ם · [or] anyone
    As for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.
  42. Jeremiah 24:7לְעָ֔ם · people
    I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.
  43. Jeremiah 25:1עַ֣ם · the people
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
  44. Jeremiah 25:2עַ֣ם · the people
    So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem as follows:
  45. Jeremiah 25:19עַמּֽוֹ׃ · his people
    Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people;
  46. Jeremiah 26:7הָעָ֑ם · the people
    Now the priests and prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD,
  47. Jeremiah 26:8הָעָ֑ם · the people
    …and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!