עַם ʻam

Hebrew · Strong's H5971 · pronounced am · used 1873 times in 1656 verses

Meaning

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

In the King James Version: folk, men, nation, people.

Derivation: from H6004 (עָמַם);

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Where it is used

Esther 3:14 A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that they would be ready on that day.
Esther 4:8 Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.
Esther 4:11 “All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”
Esther 7:3 Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
Esther 7:4 For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
Esther 8:6 For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
Esther 8:9 At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
Esther 8:11 By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.
Esther 8:13 A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
Esther 8:17 In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.
Esther 9:2 In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.
Esther 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
Job 12:2 “Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
Job 12:24 He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
Job 17:6 He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
Job 18:19 He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
Job 34:20 They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
Job 34:30 that godless men should not rule or lay snares for the people.
Job 36:20 Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
Job 36:31 For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.
Psalms 3:6 I will not fear the myriads set against me on every side.
Psalms 3:8 Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah
Psalms 7:8 The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
Psalms 9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion; proclaim His deeds among the nations.
Psalms 14:4 Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
Psalms 14:7 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the LORD restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
Psalms 18:27 For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.
Psalms 18:43 You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
Psalms 18:47 the God who avenges me and subdues nations beneath me,
Psalms 22:6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
Psalms 22:31 They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn—all that He has done.
Psalms 28:9 Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.
Psalms 29:11 The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.
Psalms 33:10 The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
Psalms 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
Psalms 35:18 Then I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people.
Psalms 44:12 You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
Psalms 45:5 Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath your feet.
Psalms 45:10 Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
Psalms 45:12 The Daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; men of wealth will seek your favor.
Psalms 45:17 I will commemorate your name through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you forever and ever.
Psalms 47:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph.
Psalms 47:3 He subdues nations beneath us, and peoples under our feet.
Psalms 47:9 The nobles of the nations have assembled as the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.
Psalms 49:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,
Psalms 50:4 He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
Psalms 50:7 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
Psalms 53:4 Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.
Psalms 53:6 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
Psalms 56:7 In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations.
Psalms 57:9 I will praise You, O Lord, among the nations; I will sing Your praises among the peoples.
Psalms 59:11 Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
Psalms 60:3 You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.
Psalms 62:8 Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah
Psalms 66:8 Bless our God, O peoples; let the sound of His praise be heard.
Psalms 67:3 Let the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise You.
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 67:5 Let the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise You.
Psalms 68:7 O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah
Psalms 68:30 Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.