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
- Lamentations 4:10עַמִּֽי׃ס · of my peopleThe hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Ezekiel 3:5עַ֨ם · a peopleFor you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
- Ezekiel 3:6עַמִּ֣ים · peoples…not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
- Ezekiel 3:11עַמֶּ֔ךָGo to your people, the exiles; speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.”
- Ezekiel 7:27עַם־ · of the peopleThe king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
- Ezekiel 11:1הָעָֽם׃פ · of the peopleThen the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.
- Ezekiel 11:17הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים · the peoplesTherefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries to which you have been scattered, and I will give back to you the land of Israel.’
- Ezekiel 11:20לְעָ֔ם · people…so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
- Ezekiel 12:19עַ֣ם · the peopleThen tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.
- Ezekiel 13:9עַמִּ֣י · of My peopleMy hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of My people or be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 13:10עַמִּ֛י · they have led My peopleBecause they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built,
- Ezekiel 13:17עַמְּךָ֔ · of your peopleNow, O son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them
- Ezekiel 13:18לְעַמִּ֔י · of My people…and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils for the heads of people of every height, in order to ensnare their souls. Will you ensnare the souls of My people but preserve your own?
- Ezekiel 13:19עַמִּ֗י · My people; לְעַמִּ֖י · to My peopleYou have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.
- Ezekiel 13:21עַמִּי֙ · My peopleI will also tear off your veils and deliver My people from your hands, so that they will no longer be prey in your hands. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 13:23עַמִּי֙ · My people…therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will deliver My people from your hands. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 14:8עַמִּ֑י · My peopleI will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 14:9עַמִּ֥י · My peopleBut if the prophet is enticed to speak a message, then it was I the LORD who enticed him, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.
- Ezekiel 14:11לְעָ֗ם · people…in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be My people and I will be their God, declares the Lord GOD.’”
- Ezekiel 17:9וּבְעַם־ · peopleSo you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Will it flourish? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it shrivels? All its foliage will wither! It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by its roots.
- Ezekiel 17:15וְעַם־ · armyBut this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’
- Ezekiel 18:18עַמָּ֑יו · his peopleAs for his father, he will die for his own iniquity, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.
- Ezekiel 20:34הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים · the peoplesWith a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and outpoured wrath I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered.
- Ezekiel 20:35הָֽעַמִּ֑ים · of the nationsAnd I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, where I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
- Ezekiel 20:41הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים · the peoplesWhen I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. And I will show My holiness through you in the sight of the nations.
- Ezekiel 21:12בְעַמִּ֔י · against My people; עַמִּ֔י · My peopleCry out and wail, O son of man, for the sword is wielded against My people; it is against all the princes of Israel! They are tossed to the sword with My people; therefore strike your thigh.
- Ezekiel 22:29עַ֤ם · The peopleThe people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
- Ezekiel 23:24עַמִּ֔ים · of peoplesThey will come against you with a host of peoples, with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will array themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will delegate judgment to them, and they will punish you according to their own standards.
- Ezekiel 24:18הָעָם֙ · the peopleSo I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I had been commanded.
- Ezekiel 24:19הָעָ֑ם · Then the peopleThen the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things you are doing mean to us?”
- Ezekiel 25:7הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים · the peoples…therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’
- Ezekiel 25:14עַמִּ֣י · of My peopleI will take My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to My anger and wrath. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.’
- Ezekiel 26:2הָעַמִּ֖ים · to the nations“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’
- Ezekiel 26:7וְעַם־ · of troopsFor this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops.
- Ezekiel 26:11עַמֵּךְ֙ · your peopleThe hooves of his horses will trample all your streets. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.
- Ezekiel 26:20עַ֣ם · the people…then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 27:3הָֽעַמִּ֔ים · of the peoplesTell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
- Ezekiel 27:33עַמִּ֣ים · nationsWhen your wares went out to sea, you satisfied many nations. You enriched the kings of the earth with your abundant wealth and merchandise.
- Ezekiel 27:36בָּ֣עַמִּ֔ים · among the nationsThose who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
- Ezekiel 28:19בָּֽעַמִּ֔ים · the nationsAll the nations who know you are appalled over you. You have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
- Ezekiel 28:25הָֽעַמִּים֙ · the peoplesThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they have been scattered, I will show Myself holy among them in the sight of the nations. Then they will dwell in their own land, which I have given to My servant Jacob.
- Ezekiel 29:13הָעַמִּ֖ים · the nationsFor this is what the Lord GOD says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations to which they were scattered.
- Ezekiel 30:11וְעַמּ֤וֹ · and his peopleHe and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
- Ezekiel 31:12עַמֵּ֥י · the peoplesForeigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.
- Ezekiel 32:3עַמִּ֣ים · peoplesThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will spread My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they will draw you up in My net.
- Ezekiel 32:9עַמִּ֣ים · peoples‘I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, in countries you do not know.
- Ezekiel 32:10עַמִּ֣ים · peoplesI will cause many peoples to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you when I brandish My sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.’
- Ezekiel 33:2עַמְּךָ֙“Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: ‘Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land choose a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman,