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
- Ezekiel 33:2עַם־ · and the people“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,
- Ezekiel 33:3הָעָֽם׃ · the people…and he sees the sword coming against that land and blows the ram’s horn to warn the people.
- Ezekiel 33:6וְהָעָ֣ם · the peopleBut if the watchman sees the sword coming and fails to blow the horn to warn the people, and the sword comes and takes away a life, then that one will be taken away in his iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.’
- Ezekiel 33:12עַמְּךָ֙Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’
- Ezekiel 33:17עַמְּךָ֔Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
- Ezekiel 33:30עַמְּךָ֗As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’
- Ezekiel 33:31עָ֞ם · So My people; עַמִּ֔יSo My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
- Ezekiel 34:13הָעַמִּ֗ים · the peoplesI will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the settlements of the land.
- Ezekiel 34:30עַמִּי֙ · are My peopleThen they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people,’ declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 36:3עָֽם׃…therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
- Ezekiel 36:8לְעַמִּ֣י · for My peopleBut you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.
- Ezekiel 36:12עַמִּ֤י · My peopleYes, I will cause My people Israel to walk upon you; they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will no longer deprive them of their children.
- Ezekiel 36:15עַמִּ֖ים · of the peoplesI will no longer allow the taunts of the nations to be heard against you, and you will no longer endure the reproach of the peoples or cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Ezekiel 36:20עַם־ · are the peopleAnd wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’
- Ezekiel 36:28לְעָ֔ם · peopleThen you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.
- Ezekiel 37:12עַמִּ֑י · My peopleTherefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
- Ezekiel 37:13עַמִּֽי׃ · Then you, My peopleThen you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
- Ezekiel 37:18עַמְּךָ֖When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these?’
- Ezekiel 37:23לְעָ֔ם · peopleThey will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
- Ezekiel 37:27לְעָֽם׃ · peopleMy dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Ezekiel 38:6עַמִּ֥ים · nations…as well as Gomer with all its troops, and Beth-togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.
- Ezekiel 38:8מֵעַמִּ֣ים · nations; מֵעַמִּ֣ים · from the nationsAfter a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
- Ezekiel 38:9וְעַמִּ֥ים · peoplesYou and all your troops, and many peoples with you will go up, advancing like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.
- Ezekiel 38:12עַם֙ · a people…in order to seize the spoil and carry off the plunder, to turn a hand against the desolate places now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and possessions and who live at the center of the land.’
- Ezekiel 38:14עַמִּ֧י · when My peopleTherefore prophesy, son of man, and tell Gog that this is what the Lord GOD says: On that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not take notice of this?
- Ezekiel 38:15וְעַמִּ֥ים · peoplesAnd you will come from your place out of the far north—you and many peoples with you, all riding horses—a mighty horde, a huge army.
- Ezekiel 38:16עַמִּ֣י · My peopleYou will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.
- Ezekiel 38:22עַמִּ֥ים · nationsI will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
- Ezekiel 39:4וְעַמִּ֖ים · and the nationsOn the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
- Ezekiel 39:7עַמִּ֣י · My peopleSo I will make My holy name known among My people Israel and will no longer allow it to be profaned. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
- Ezekiel 39:13עַ֣ם · the peopleAll the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day I display My glory, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 39:27הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים · the peoplesWhen I bring them back from the peoples and gather them out of the lands of their enemies, I will show My holiness in them in the sight of many nations.
- Ezekiel 42:14לָעָֽם׃ · for the peopleOnce the priests have entered the holy area, they must not go out into the outer court until they have left behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they approach the places that are for the people.”
- Ezekiel 44:11לָעָ֔ם · for the peopleYet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having charge of the gates of the temple and ministering there. They shall slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices for the people and stand before them to minister to them.
- Ezekiel 44:19הָעָם֒ · the people; הָעָ֖ם · to the peopleWhen they go out to the outer court, to the people, they are to take off the garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and dress in other clothes so that they do not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.
- Ezekiel 44:23עַמִּ֣י · My peopleThey are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
- Ezekiel 45:8עַמִּ֔י · My peopleThis land will be his possession in Israel. And My princes will no longer oppress My people, but will give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
- Ezekiel 45:9עַמִּ֔י · My peopleFor this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’
- Ezekiel 45:16הָעָ֣ם · the peopleAll the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel.
- Ezekiel 45:22עַ֣ם · the peopleOn that day the prince shall provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.
- Ezekiel 46:3עַם־ · the peopleOn the Sabbaths and New Moons the people of the land are also to bow in worship before the LORD at the entrance to that gateway.
- Ezekiel 46:9עַם־ · When the peopleWhen the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to worship must go out by the south gate, and whoever enters by the south gate must go out by the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which he entered, but each must go out by the opposite gate.
- Ezekiel 46:18הָעָ֗ם · of the people; עַמִּ֔י · of My peopleThe prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”
- Ezekiel 46:20הָעָֽם׃ · to the people…and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”
- Ezekiel 46:24הָעָֽם׃ · [offered by] the peopleAnd he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple will cook the sacrifices offered by the people.”
- Daniel 8:24וְעַם־ · peopleHis power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause terrible destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the mighty men along with the holy people.