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אֻמָּהStrong’s H0524

ummah (um-mah)

Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ummah is the Aramaic word usually translated “nations the”, “nations” and “nation”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.

“Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,”
Daniel 3:4 KJV
Meaning
  1. People, tribe, nation
How it's translated
  • nations the 6
  • nations 1
  • nation 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 7
  • Ezra 1

2 books in all.

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Aramaic dictionary

אֻמָּה ummah · people

people, tribe, nation Aramaic of um.mah (אֻמָּה "people" H0523)

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.]

  1. The body of persons who compose a community, town, city or nation.
  2. The vulgar; the mass of illiterate persons.
  3. The commonalty, as distinct from men of rank.
  4. Persons of a particular class; a part of a nation or community; as country people
All definitions and other forms of “people”
  1. Persons in general; any persons indefinitely; like on in French, and man in Saxon.
  2. A collection or community of animals.“The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer” Proverbs 30:25
  3. When people signified a separate nation or tribe, it has the plural number.“Thou must prophesy again before many peoples” Revelation 10:11
  4. In Scripture, fathers or kindred. Genesis 25:8
  5. 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.