Lexicon :: Strong's H5971 - ʿam

The LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

He brought back all the goods and also his relative Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the other people.

“If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”

“I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.

Then Abraham rose and bowed down to the Hethites, the people of the land.

“No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the sight[fn] of my people. Bury your dead.”

He took his last breath and died at a good old age, old and contented,[fn] and he was gathered to his people.

This is the length[fn] of Ishmael’s life: 137 years. He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people.

Then Abimelech said, “What have you done to us? One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.”

May peoples serve you

and nations bow in homage to you.

Be master over your relatives;

may your mother’s sons bow in homage to you.

Those who curse you will be cursed,

and those who bless you will be blessed.

“May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples.

Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; he divided the people with him into two camps, along with the flocks, herds, and camels.

Esau said, “Let me leave some of my people with you.”

But he replied, “Why do that? Please indulge me,[fn] my lord.”

“Then we will give you our daughters, take your daughters for ourselves, live with you, and become one people.

“But the men will agree to live with us and be one people only on this condition: if all our men are circumcised as they are.

So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

“You will be over my house, and all my people will obey your commands.[fn] Only I, as king,[fn] will be greater than you.”

When the whole land of Egypt was stricken with famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh told all Egypt, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

Joseph was in charge of the country; he sold grain to all its people. His brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

and Joseph made the people servants[fn] from one end of Egypt to the other.

Joseph said to the people, “Understand today that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you. Sow it in the land.

“He said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful and numerous; I will make many nations come from you, and I will give this land as a permanent possession to your future descendants.’

But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know! He too will become a tribe,[fn] and he too will be great; nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a populous nation.”[fn]

“The scepter will not depart from Judah

or the staff from between his feet

until he whose right it is comes[fn]

and the obedience of the peoples belongs to him.

“Dan will judge his people

as one of the tribes of Israel.

Then he commanded them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hethite.

When Jacob had finished giving charges to his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, took his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

“You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result ​— ​the survival of many people.

He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are.

So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very numerous.

Pharaoh then commanded all his people, “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”

Then the LORD said, “I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings,

“therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

He answered, “I will certainly be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I am the one who sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship[fn] God at this mountain.”

“And I will give these people such favor with the Egyptians that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.

“He will speak to the people for you. He will serve as a mouth for you, and you will serve as God to him.

The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, make sure you do before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart[fn] so that he won’t let the people go.

Aaron repeated everything the LORD had said to Moses and performed the signs before the people.

Later, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival for me in the wilderness.”

The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you causing the people to neglect their work? Get to your labor! ”

So the overseers and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am not giving you straw.