Hebrew

People

אֻמָּהStrong’s H0523

ummah (um-mah)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ummah is the Hebrew word usually translated “tribes their”, “tribes” and “peoples”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.”

Meaning

How it's translated

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

אֻמָּה ummah · people

people, tribe, nation Aramaic equivalent: um.mah (אֻמָּה "people" H0524)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “people” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PEOPLE, noun

[Latin populus.]

The body of persons who compose a community, town, city or nation.
The vulgar; the mass of illiterate persons.
The commonalty, as distinct from men of rank.
Persons of a particular class; a part of a nation or community; as country people

All definitions and other forms of “people”

Persons in general; any persons indefinitely; like on in French, and man in Saxon.
A collection or community of animals.“The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer” Proverbs 30:25
When people signified a separate nation or tribe, it has the plural number.“Thou must prophesy again before many peoples” Revelation 10:11
In Scripture, fathers or kindred. Genesis 25:8
The Gentiles.“--To him shall the gathering of the people be” Genesis 49:10

PEOPLE, verb transitive

To stock with inhabitants. Emigrants from Europe have peopled the United States.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.