People
עַםStrong’s H5972am
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Am is the Aramaic word usually translated “peoples the”, “people the” and “people”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.”
Meaning
- People
How it's translated
- peoples the 6
- people the 3
- to a people 2
- and people the 1
- and people 1
- peoples o 1
- people 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 9
- Ezra 5
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:4In contextThen an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,
- Daniel 3:7In contextTherefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
- Daniel 3:29In contextTherefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
- Daniel 4:1In contextNebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
- Daniel 5:19In contextAnd for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
- Daniel 6:25In contextThen king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
Aramaic dictionary
עַם am · people
people Aramaic of am (עַם ": people" H5971A)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.