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. Daniel 9:6עַ֥ם · the people
    We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land.
  2. Daniel 9:15עַמְּךָ֜ · Your people
    Now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and who made for Yourself a name renowned to this day, we have sinned; we have acted wickedly.
  3. Daniel 9:16וְעַמְּךָ֛ · and Your people
    O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
  4. Daniel 9:19עַמֶּֽךָ׃ · and Your people
    O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”
  5. Daniel 9:20עַמִּ֣י · of my people
    While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain—
  6. Daniel 9:24עַמְּךָ֣׀ · your people
    Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
  7. Daniel 9:26עַ֣ם · Then the people
    Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
  8. Daniel 10:14לְעַמְּךָ֖ · to your people
    Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”
  9. Daniel 11:14עַמְּךָ֗ · among your own people
    In those times many will rise up against the king of the South. Violent ones among your own people will exalt themselves in fulfillment of the vision, but they will fail.
  10. Daniel 11:15וְעַם֙ · troops
    Then the king of the North will come, build up a siege ramp, and capture a fortified city. The forces of the South will not stand; even their best troops will not be able to resist.
  11. Daniel 11:32וְעַ֛ם · but the people
    With flattery he will corrupt those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.
  12. Daniel 11:33עָ֔ם
    Those with insight will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by sword or flame, or be captured or plundered.
  13. Daniel 12:1עַמֶּךָ֒; עַמְּךָ֔ · your people
    “At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
  14. Daniel 12:7עַם־ · people
    And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”
  15. Hosea 1:9עַמִּ֔י · My people
    And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
  16. Hosea 1:10עַמִּ֣י · My people
    Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
  17. Hosea 2:1עַמִּ֑י · My people
    “Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
  18. Hosea 2:23עַמִּי֙ · are My people; עַמִּי־ · My People
    And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
  19. Hosea 4:4וְעַמְּךָ֖ · for your people [are] like those
    But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.
  20. Hosea 4:6עַמִּ֖י · My people
    My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
  21. Hosea 4:8עַמִּ֖י · of My people
    They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.
  22. Hosea 4:9כָעָ֖ם · like people
    And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
  23. Hosea 4:12עַמִּי֙ · My people
    My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
  24. Hosea 4:14וְעָ֥ם · So a people
    I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.
  25. Hosea 6:11עַמִּֽי׃פ · My people
    Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.
  26. Hosea 7:8בָּעַמִּ֖ים · with the nations
    Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.
  27. Hosea 9:1כָּֽעַמִּ֔ים · like the nations
    Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
  28. Hosea 10:5עַמּ֗וֹ · its people
    The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile.
  29. Hosea 10:10עַמִּ֔ים · nations
    I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.
  30. Hosea 10:14בְּעַמֶּךָ֒ · against your people
    …the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.
  31. Hosea 11:7וְעַמִּ֥י · My people
    My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.
  32. Joel 2:2עַ֚ם · army [appears]
    …a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
  33. Joel 2:5כְּעַ֣ם · army
    With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.
  34. Joel 2:6עַמִּ֑ים · Nations
    Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.
  35. Joel 2:16עָ֞ם · the people
    Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.
  36. Joel 2:17עַמֶּ֗ךָ · Your people; בָֽעַמִּ֔ים · among the peoples
    Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
  37. Joel 2:18עַמּֽוֹ׃ · His people
    Then the LORD became jealous for His land, and He spared His people.
  38. Joel 2:19לְעַמּ֗וֹ · His people
    And the LORD answered His people: “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and by them you will be satisfied. I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.
  39. Joel 2:26עַמִּ֖י · My people
    You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.
  40. Joel 2:27עַמִּ֖י · My people
    Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.
  41. Joel 3:2עַמִּ֨י · My people
    I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.
  42. Joel 3:3עַמִּ֖י · My people
    They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
  43. Joel 3:16לְעַמּ֔וֹ · for His people
    The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
  44. Amos 1:5עַם־ · The people
    I will break down the gates of Damascus; I will cut off the ruler from the Valley of Aven and the one who wields the scepter in Beth-eden. The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir,” says the LORD.
  45. Amos 3:6וְעָ֖ם · do the people
    If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
  46. Amos 7:8עַמִּ֣י · My people
    “Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:
  47. Amos 7:15עַמִּ֥י · My people
    But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’