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Lexicon :: Strong's H5971 - ʿam

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עַם
Transliteration
ʿam
Pronunciation
am
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1640a,1640e

Strong’s Definitions

עַם ʻam, am; from H6004; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock:—folk, men, nation, people.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,862x

The KJV translates Strong's H5971 in the following manner: people (1,836x), nation (17x), people (with H1121) (4x), folk (2x), Ammi (1x), men (1x), each (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,862x
The KJV translates Strong's H5971 in the following manner: people (1,836x), nation (17x), people (with H1121) (4x), folk (2x), Ammi (1x), men (1x), each (1x).

  1. nation, people

    1. people, nation

    2. persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men

  2. kinsman, kindred

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עַם ʻam, am; from H6004; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock:—folk, men, nation, people.
STRONGS H5971: Abbreviations
I. עַם, עָם 1840 noun masculineGenesis 11:6 (see below) people (Late Hebrew id., plebeian, common man; Targum עַמָּא people, plural peoples, tribes, etc.; Syriac bdb076603; Arabic bdb076604see above; original meaning probably those united, connected, related, compare WeGGN 1893, 480); — absolute עַם Genesis 11:6 +, עָם Judges 9:36 +, הָעָם Joshua 8:11 +; construct עַם Numbers 21:29 +; suffix עַמִּי Exodus 3:7 +, עַמְּךָ Exodus 22:27 [Exodus 22:28] +, etc.; plural עַמִּים Isaiah 2:3 +, עֲמָמִים (compare Biblical Aramaic) Nehemiah 9:22; construct עַמֵּי 1 Kings 8:43 +, עַמְמֵי Nehemiah 9:24; plural with suffix see II. עַם; — (Thes cites following as feminine וְחָטָאת עַמֶּ֑ךָ Exodus 5:16 [but corrupt and unintelligable; read perhaps וְחַטָאתָ לְע׳, so Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Di]; Judges 18:7 [but ישֶׁבֶת must agree with lost word city, or the like, see GFM]; Jeremiah 8:5 [but read שׁוֺבַב for שׁוֺבְבָה Gie]); —
1. a people, nation (sometimes || גּוֺי), collective noun (singular Exodus 21:8; Joshua 17:14, Joshua 17:15, Joshua 17:17; 2 Samuel 17:29 + often, or plural — Exodus 20:18,; Exodus 24:2; Jeremiah 5:31 + often, or both in the same clause Exodus 1:20; 2 Samuel 13:24): עַם אֶחָד = all mankind Genesis 11:6 (J); peoples in general Genesis 27:29 (J; || לְאֻמִּים), Exodus 19:5 (E), Deuteronomy 2:25; Deuteronomy 4:6 + often in Deuteronomy; Nehemiah 13:24 + often; קְהַל עַמִּים Genesis 28:3 (P) an assembly (multitude) of peoples, Genesis 48:4 (P), Ezekiel 23:24; Ezekiel 32:3 (+ רַבִּים); one's own people Jeremiah 46:16; Psalm 45:11 [Psalm 45:10]; Ruth 1:10, Ruth 1:15, Ruth 1:16 (twice in verse) + (on עַמִּי נָדִיב [H5993 Songs 6:12] see especially Bu); particular peoples, Egypt Genesis 41:40 (E), Exodus 1:22 (E), Nehemiah 9:10 +; עַםאֲֿרָם Amos 1:5; עַםכְּֿמוֺשׁ (i.e. Moab) Numbers 21:29 (JE), Jeremiah 48:46; but especially Israel Exodus 1:20 (E) + often; עַםבְּֿנֵי יִשׂ׳ Exodus 1:9 (J); called יהוה ע׳ Numbers 11:29 (E), 1 Samuel 2:24 +, and (by י׳) עַמִּי Exodus 3:7; Exodus 5:1 (J) + often (all periods); קְהַל עַםהָֿאֱלֹהִים Judges 20:2, עַםהַֿקָּהָל Leviticus 16:33 (P), קְהַל עָם Psalm 107:32; especially הָעָם הַזֶּה (often in contempt or disgust) Numbers 11:1, Numbers 11:12, Numbers 11:13 +; figurative of ants Proverbs 30:25, the shaphan Proverbs 30:26, locusts Joel 2:2, compare לְעַם לְצִיִּים Psalm 74:14 (where read לְעַם צִיִּים Hup-Now). — On Judges 1:16 see עֲמָלֵקִי.
2. = smaller units, e.g.
a. inhabitants of a city Genesis 19:4 (J), 1 Samuel 9:12, 1 Samuel 9:13; Jeremiah 29:16, Jeremiah 29:25; 2 Chronicles 31:4 + (Jeremiah 8:5 strike out יְרוּוּשׁ׳ Greek Version of the LXX Gie Co Rothst).
b. inhabitants of a locality Jeremiah 37:12 [apparently not = tribe, Deuteronomy 33:3 read עַמּוֺ Greek Version of the LXX Di Dr, Hosea 10:14; Judges 5:8, Judges 5:14 read בְּעָרֶיךָ We Now; see below d].
c. retainers, followers Genesis 14:16; Genesis 32:8 [Genesis 32:7]; Genesis 33:15; Genesis 35:6; Judges 3:18; Judges 8:5; 2 Samuel 15:17; Jeremiah 41:13, Jeremiah 41:14 +.
d. people bearing arms 1 Samuel 11:11; 1 Kings 20:10 +; כָּבֵד ע׳ Numbers 20:20 (JE), i.e. a powerful force; עַם הַצָּבָא Numbers 31:32 (P), הַמִּלְחָמָה ע׳ Joshua 8:1, Joshua 8:3, Joshua 8:11; Joshua 10:7; Joshua 11:7 (all J E); so probably Judges 5:8 a (fighting) band; perhaps also Judges 5:14 (read singular ? see GFM Bu).
3. = common people Jeremiah 21:7; Jeremiah 22:4; Leviticus 4:27 (opposed to ruler Leviticus 4:22), Nehemiah 5:1 (opposed to יְהוּדִים), Nehemiah 7:5 (opposed to rulers).
4. people in general, persons Genesis 50:20 (E), so apparently כָּלהָֿעָם אֲשֶׁר וגו׳ Exodus 33:16 (J), Numbers 11:34 (J), Joshua 5:5 (twice in verse) (D), Judges 9:36 (as singular), Judges 9:37 (as plural), Jeremiah 36:9; persons labouring 1 Kings 9:23; superior persons Job 12:2 (iron.); עַם עוֺלָם Ezekiel 26:20 people of long ago (now in Sh‘eôl).
5. phrases are:
a. (עַמָּהּ, עַמִּי, עַמְּךָ) בְּנֵי עַמּוֺ members of one's people, compatriots, fellow-countrymen, etc. Numbers 22:5 (E), Genesis 23:11 (P) Leviticus 19:18 (H), Judges 14:16, Judges 14:17; Ezekiel 33:2, Ezekiel 33:12 +.
b. בְּנֵי הָעָם = common people (see 3.) 2 Kings 23:6; Jeremiah 26:23 +; people in general שַׁעַר בְּנֵי הָעָם Jeremiah 17:19 i.e. public gate 2 Chronicles 35:5, 2 Chronicles 35:12.
c. עַם הָאָרֶץ the people at large, as a body 2 Kings 11:14, 2 Kings 11:18, 2 Kings 11:19, 2 Kings 11:20; 2 Kings 15:5; 2 Kings 16:15; 2 Kings 21:24 (twice in verse) +, Jeremiah 37:2; Jeremiah 44:21; Leviticus 20:2 (H), Genesis 23:7, Genesis 23:12, Genesis 23:13 (P); common people Jeremiah 34:19, compare הא׳ דַּלַּת ע׳ 2 Kings 24:14; distinguished from prince Ezekiel 45:22; Ezekiel 46:3, Ezekiel 46:9, from priests Haggai 2:4; Zechariah 7:5; = Canaanites Numbers 14:9 (JE), compare עַמֵּי הָאָרֶץ 1 Chronicles 5:25; mixed post-exile population Ezra 4:4.
d. עַמֵּי הָאָרֶץ usually peoples of the earth Joshua 4:24 (D), 2 Chronicles 32:19 +; of heathen peoples about and in Palestine after exile Ezra 10:2, Ezra 10:11; traders Nehemiah 10:31; עַמֵּי הָאֲרָצוֺת Nehemiah 9:30; Nehemiah 10:29 [Nehemiah 10:28]; 2 Chronicles 32:13.
e. עַמִּים מִשְׁפְּחוֹת Psalm 96:7 = 1 Chronicles 16:28 (compare Psalm 22:28 [Psalm 22:27]).
f. בַּתעַֿמִּי = people personified Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 4:11 + 7 times Jeremiah + Jeremiah 6:14 (van d. H.; omit בַּת Baer Gi), Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 3:48; Lamentations 4:3, Lamentations 4:6, Lamentations 4:10; בְּתוּלַת בַּתעַֿמִּי Jeremiah 14:17.
g. designations of Israel are: עַם־קָדוֹשׁ Deuteronomy 7:6 + 3 times, קְדוֺשִׁים ע׳ Daniel 8:24, (ה)קֹדֶשׁ ע׳ Isaiah 62:12; Isaiah 63:18; Daniel 12:7; סְגֻלָּה ע׳ Deuteronomy 7:6; Deuteronomy 14:2; Deuteronomy 26:18.
h. of foreign (non-Israel) peoples: ע׳ נָכְרִי Exodus 21:8 (E), אַחֵר ע׳ Deuteronomy 28:32, and especially from language, עִמְקֵי שָׂפָה ע׳ Ezekiel 3:5 compare Ezekiel 3:6, כִּלְשׁוֺן עַם וָעָם Nehemiah 13:24 compare Esther 1:22 (twice in verse); Esther 3:12, לֹעֵג ע׳ Psalm 114:1.
i. עַם עֶבְרָתִי Isaiah 10:6, חֶרְמִי ע׳ Isaiah 34:11, מִֿבְחָרָיוע׳ Daniel 11:15, עַמֵּי תּוֺעֵבוֺת הָאֵלֶּה Ezra 9:14; לֹא עַם בִּינוֺת Isaiah 27:11. — For עַםעֿוֺלָם Isaiah 44:7 read (אֹתִיּת) מֵעוֹלָם עַ(עַהִשְׁמִי מִי) Oort Du Kit CheHpt compare PerlesAnal. 40, 64.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H5972.

† II. [עַם] noun [masculine] kinsman **later development of I. עַם RSK 58; 2nd ed. 72, (on father's side) (Arabic bdb076901 paternal uncle, etc., see I. עמם; compare perhaps Tel Amarna ammu, kinsmen (?); on Nabataean עם ancestor compare Lzb151, 499; see also especially NesEg 187, ZAW xvi (1896), 322 f. Krenkelib. viii (1888), 280-84); — suffix עַמִּי in בֶּןעַֿמִּי (which see), and proper name following; elsewhere plural suffix עַמֶּיךָ Numbers 27:13; Numbers 31:2 (Leviticus 19:16 read עַמְּךָ Greek Version of the LXX Sam), + (possibly) עֲמָמֶיךָ Judges 5:14; עַמָּיו Genesis 25:8 + 15 times, עַמֶּיהָ Genesis 17:14 + 3 times; read עַמַּי (for MT עַמִּי, I. עַם; compare Krenkell.c. 281) Genesis 49:29 and perhaps Judges 14:3 (compare Leviticus 21:14); according to Buhl Kit also 2 Kings 4:13; — father's kinsmen: וַיֵּאָסֵף אֶלעַֿמָּיו Genesis 25:8 (of joining kinsmen in Sh‘eôl), so Genesis 25:17; Genesis 35:29; Genesis 49:33; Numbers 20:24; Deuteronomy 32:50, compare Genesis 49:29 (see above), Numbers 27:13; Numbers 31:2; Deuteronomy 32:50 (all P); וְנִכְרְתָה הַנֶּפֶשׁ מֵעַמֶּיהָ Genesis 17:4 (severed from living kinsmen), so Leviticus 7:20, Leviticus 7:21, Leviticus 7:25, Leviticus 7:27; Leviticus 19:8; Leviticus 23:29; Numbers 9:13, מִקֶּרֶב עַמֶּיהָ Exodus 31:14, compare Exodus 30:33, Exodus 30:38; Leviticus 17:9 (all PH); מֵעַמָּיו יִקַּח אִשָּׁה Leviticus 21:14 (H), and perhaps Judges 14:3 (simile I. עַם : [םָ֯, הָּ֯] מִקֶּרֶב עַמּוֺ Leviticus 17:4, Leviticus 17:10; Leviticus 18:29+); other combinations Judges 5:14 (si vera lectio read perhaps בְּעַמֶּ֑ךָ, see I. עַם 2 d), Leviticus 21:1, Leviticus 21:4, Leviticus 21:15 (H), Ezekiel 18:18 and (perhaps) 2 Kings 4:13. — בֶּןעַֿמִּי perhaps = son of my kinsman; on proper name with עַם see GrayProp. N. 41 ff.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:6; 11:6; 11:6; 14:16; 17:4; 17:14; 19:4; 23:7; 23:11; 23:12; 23:13; 25:8; 25:8; 25:17; 27:29; 28:3; 32:7; 33:15; 35:6; 35:29; 41:40; 48:4; 49:29; 49:29; 49:33; 50:20

Exodus

1:9; 1:20; 1:20; 1:22; 3:7; 3:7; 5:1; 5:16; 19:5; 20:18; 21:8; 21:8; 22:28; 24:2; 30:33; 30:38; 31:14; 33:16

Leviticus

4:22; 4:27; 7:20; 7:21; 7:25; 7:27; 16:33; 17:4; 17:9; 17:10; 18:29; 19:8; 19:16; 19:18; 20:2; 21:1; 21:4; 21:14; 21:14; 21:15; 23:29

Numbers

9:13; 11:1; 11:12; 11:13; 11:29; 11:34; 14:9; 20:20; 20:24; 21:29; 21:29; 22:5; 27:13; 27:13; 31:2; 31:2; 31:32

Deuteronomy

2:25; 4:6; 7:6; 7:6; 14:2; 26:18; 28:32; 32:50; 32:50; 33:3

Joshua

4:24; 5:5; 8:1; 8:3; 8:11; 8:11; 10:7; 11:7; 17:14; 17:15; 17:17

Judges

1:16; 3:18; 5:8; 5:8; 5:14; 5:14; 5:14; 5:14; 8:5; 9:36; 9:36; 9:37; 14:3; 14:3; 14:16; 14:17; 18:7; 20:2

Ruth

1:10; 1:15; 1:16

1 Samuel

2:24; 9:12; 9:13; 11:11

2 Samuel

13:24; 15:17; 17:29

1 Kings

8:43; 9:23; 20:10

2 Kings

4:13; 4:13; 11:14; 11:18; 11:19; 11:20; 15:5; 16:15; 21:24; 23:6; 24:14

1 Chronicles

5:25; 16:28

2 Chronicles

31:4; 32:13; 32:19; 35:5; 35:12

Ezra

4:4; 9:14; 10:2; 10:11

Nehemiah

5:1; 7:5; 9:10; 9:22; 9:24; 9:30; 10:28; 10:31; 13:24; 13:24

Esther

1:22; 3:12

Job

12:2

Psalms

22:27; 45:10; 74:14; 96:7; 107:32; 114:1

Proverbs

30:25; 30:26

Isaiah

2:3; 10:6; 22:4; 27:11; 34:11; 44:7; 62:12; 63:18

Jeremiah

4:11; 5:31; 6:14; 8:5; 8:5; 14:17; 17:19; 21:7; 22:4; 26:23; 29:16; 29:25; 34:19; 36:9; 37:2; 37:12; 41:13; 41:14; 44:21; 46:16; 48:46

Lamentations

2:11; 3:48; 4:3; 4:6; 4:10

Ezekiel

3:5; 3:6; 18:18; 23:24; 26:20; 32:3; 33:2; 33:12; 45:22; 46:3; 46:9

Daniel

8:24; 11:15; 12:7

Hosea

10:14

Joel

2:2

Amos

1:5

Haggai

2:4

Zechariah

7:5

H5971

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Strong's Number H5971 matches the Hebrew עַם (ʿam),
which occurs 23 times in 19 verses in 'Ezr' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:3 - Who is there among you of all his people? H5971 his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:2 - Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people H5971 of Israel:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:70

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:70 - So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, H5971 and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:1 - And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people H5971 gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:3 - And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people H5971 of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:11 - And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people H5971 shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:13 - So that the people H5971 could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: H5971 for the people H5971 shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:4 - Then the people H5971 of the land weakened the hands of the people H5971 of Judah, and troubled them in building,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:15 - And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, H5971 and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:36 - And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, H5971 and the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:1 - Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people H5971 of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people H5971 of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:2 - For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people H5971 of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:11 - Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people H5971 of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:14 - Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people H5971 of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:1 - Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people H5971 wept very sore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people H5971 of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:9 - Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people H5971 sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people H5971 of the land, and from the strange wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:13 - But the people H5971 are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
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