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People

עַםStrong’s H5971

am

Appears in 1,656 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Am is the Hebrew word usually translated “people”, “people my” and “people his”. It appears in 1,656 verses of the Old Testament.

“And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.”
Daniel 8:24 KJV
Meaning
  1. Nation, peoplepeople, nation · persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
  2. Kinsman, kindred
  3. § kinsman, kindred
How it's translated
  • the people 750
  • people my 166
  • a people 111
  • people his 100
  • people of 88
  • people your 87
  • peoples 75
  • the peoples 70

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

Where it's used most
  • Jeremiah 151
  • Exodus 149
  • Isaiah 125
  • Psalms 112
  • 2 Chronicles 98
  • Deuteronomy 96

39 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 1,656 verses, by book
Ecclesiastes 2
4:1612:9
Song of Solomon 1
6:12
Obadiah 1
1:13
Jonah 1
1:8
Nahum 2
3:133:18
Malachi 2
1:42:9
Hebrew dictionary

עַם am · people

: people/nation 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men

עַם am · kinsman

kinsman, kindred

עַם am · People's (Gate)

§ kinsman, kindred

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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.