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. Amos 8:2עַמִּ֣י · My people
    “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
  2. Amos 9:10עַמִּ֑י · among My people
    All the sinners among My people will die by the sword—all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”
  3. Amos 9:14עַמִּ֣י · My people
    I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
  4. Obadiah 1:13עַמִּי֙ · of My people
    You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.
  5. Jonah 1:8עַ֖ם · people
    “Tell us now,” they demanded, “who is to blame for this calamity that is upon us? What is your occupation, and where have you come from? What is your country, and who are your people?”
  6. Micah 1:2עַמִּ֣ים · O peoples
    Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.
  7. Micah 1:9עַמִּ֖י · of my people
    For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.
  8. Micah 2:4עַמִּ֖י · of my people
    In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
  9. Micah 2:8עַמִּי֙ · My people
    But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.
  10. Micah 2:9עַמִּי֙ · of My people
    You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
  11. Micah 2:11הָעָ֥ם · people
    If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
  12. Micah 3:3עַמִּי֒ · of my people
    You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
  13. Micah 3:5עַמִּ֑י · who lead My people
    This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
  14. Micah 4:1עַמִּֽים׃ · and the peoples
    In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it.
  15. Micah 4:3עַמִּ֣ים · peoples
    Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.
  16. Micah 4:5הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים · the nations
    Though all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
  17. Micah 4:13עַמִּ֣ים · peoples
    Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
  18. Micah 5:7עַמִּ֣ים · peoples
    Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
  19. Micah 5:8עַמִּ֣ים · peoples
    Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
  20. Micah 6:2עַמּ֔וֹ · His people
    Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:
  21. Micah 6:3עַמִּ֛י · My people
    ‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!
  22. Micah 6:5עַמִּ֗י · My people
    My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”
  23. Micah 6:16עַמִּ֖י · of the nations
    You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
  24. Micah 7:14עַמְּךָ֣ · Your people
    Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
  25. Nahum 3:13עַמֵּ֤ךְ · your troops
    Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
  26. Nahum 3:18עַמְּךָ֛ · Your people
    O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.
  27. Habakkuk 2:5הָעַמִּֽים׃ · the peoples
    …and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.
  28. Habakkuk 2:8עַמִּ֑ים · of the people
    Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
  29. Habakkuk 2:10עַמִּ֥ים · peoples
    You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.
  30. Habakkuk 2:13עַמִּים֙ · of the people
    Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
  31. Habakkuk 3:13עַמֶּ֔ךָ · of Your people
    You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah
  32. Habakkuk 3:16לְעַ֥ם · the people
    I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
  33. Zephaniah 1:11עַ֣ם · your merchants
    Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.
  34. Zephaniah 2:8עַמִּ֔י · My people
    “I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
  35. Zephaniah 2:9עַמִּי֙ · of My people
    Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
  36. Zephaniah 2:10עַ֖ם · the people
    This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.
  37. Zephaniah 3:9עַמִּ֖ים · the peoples
    For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.
  38. Zephaniah 3:12עַ֥ם · people
    But I will leave within you a meek and humble people, and they will trust in the name of the LORD.
  39. Zephaniah 3:20עַמֵּ֣י · the peoples
    At that time I will bring you in; yes, at that time I will gather you. For I will give you fame and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your captives before your very eyes,” says the LORD.
  40. Haggai 1:2הָעָ֤ם · people
    …that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’”
  41. Haggai 1:12הָעָ֗ם · of the people; הָעָ֖ם · So the people
    Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD.
  42. Haggai 1:13לָעָ֣ם · to the people
    Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, delivered the message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD.
  43. Haggai 1:14הָעָ֑ם · of the people
    So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,
  44. Haggai 2:2הָעָ֖ם · of the people
    “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and also to the remnant of the people. Ask them,
  45. Haggai 2:4עַ֥ם · you people
    But now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. And be strong, all you people of the land, declares the LORD. Work! For I am with you, declares the LORD of Hosts.
  46. Haggai 2:14הָֽעָם־ · people
    Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled.
  47. Zechariah 2:11לְעָ֑ם · people
    “On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.
  48. Zechariah 7:5עַ֣ם · the people
    “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
  49. Zechariah 8:6הָעָ֣ם · people
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “If this is impossible in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be impossible in My eyes?” declares the LORD of Hosts.