לְאֹם lᵉʼôm

Meaning

a community

In the King James Version: nation, people.

Derivation: or לְאוֹם; from an unused root meaning to gather;

Where it is used

• Genesis 25:23 and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
• Genesis 27:29 May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”
• Psalms 2:1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
• Psalms 7:7 Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.
• Psalms 9:8 He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.
• Psalms 44:2 With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
• Psalms 47:3 He subdues nations beneath us, and peoples under our feet.
• Psalms 65:7 You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.
• Psalms 67:4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for You judge the peoples justly and lead the nations of the earth. Selah
• Psalms 105:44 He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
• Psalms 148:11 kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth,
• Proverbs 11:26 The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.
• Proverbs 14:28 A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.
• Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
• Proverbs 24:24 Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;
• Isaiah 17:12 Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
• Isaiah 17:13 The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
• Isaiah 34:1 Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.
• Isaiah 41:1 “Be silent before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come forward and testify; let us together draw near for judgment.
• Isaiah 43:4 Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.
• Isaiah 43:9 All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”
• Isaiah 49:1 Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
• Isaiah 51:4 Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.
• Isaiah 55:4 Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.
• Isaiah 60:2 For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.
• Jeremiah 51:58 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
• Habakkuk 2:13 Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?