People
לְאֹםStrong’s H3816leom (le-om)
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Leom is the Hebrew word usually translated “peoples”, “nations” and “people”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.”
Meaning
- A people, nation
How it's translated
- peoples 9
- nations 6
- and peoples 5
- and nations 2
- a people 2
- and a people 1
- more than a people 1
- peoples of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 10
- Psalms 9
- Proverbs 4
- Genesis 2
- Jeremiah 1
- Habakkuk 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 27:29Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
- Psalms 2:1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
- Psalms 7:7So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
- Psalms 9:8And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
- Psalms 44:2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
- Psalms 47:3He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
Hebrew dictionary
לְאֹם leom · people
a people, nation
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.