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Grow With Me

עַם

am · people

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5971 · appears 1868 times in the Bible

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What it means

am (עַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “people”.

A human group joined by kinship, history and destiny. "My people", said by God, is Israel. Also the people as a crowd, or troops.

How to say it

am

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
  2. Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
  3. The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
  4. Relatives: "gathered to his people" at death.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

People: a human group joined together as a whole. BDB: also a tribe and, by extension, the troops or the people who go with someone. It is part of names such as Rehoboam and Jeroboam.

How we translate it

“People” 1663 times, “peoples” 202. This edition keeps it apart from גּוֹי: עַם is “people” and גּוֹי is “nation”. So when they come together they look different: “And see that this nation {is} your people” (Exodus 33:13).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • people ×1663
  • peoples ×202
  • Ammi ×2
  • force ×1

Related words

Comes from

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 11:6

    And YHWH said, “Look, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they have begun to do; and now nothing that they plan to do will be out of reach for them.

  • Genesis 14:16

    He brought back all the possessions, and also Lot his brother and his possessions he brought back, and also the women and the people.

  • Genesis 17:14

    But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”

  • Genesis 17:16

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

  • Genesis 19:4

    Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from young to old, all the people from every quarter.

  • Genesis 23:7

    Abraham rose and bowed down to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth.

  • Genesis 23:11

    “No, my lord, hear me: the field I give you, and the cave that is in it I give it to you. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you; bury your dead.”

  • Genesis 23:12

    Abraham bowed down before the people of the land,

  • Genesis 23:13

    and he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, “If only you would hear me! I give the silver for the field; take it from me, and let me bury my dead there.”

  • Genesis 25:8

    Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, old and satisfied, and he was gathered to his people.

  • Genesis 25:17

    These are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred and thirty and seven years. He breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people.

  • Genesis 26:10

    Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

  • Genesis 26:11

    So Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

  • Genesis 27:29

    May peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.”

  • Genesis 28:3

    May El Shaddai bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you become an assembly of peoples.

  • Genesis 32:7

    Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, the cattle, and the camels, into two camps.

  • Genesis 33:15

    Esau said, “Let me leave, please, with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “Why this? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”

  • Genesis 34:16

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

  • Genesis 34:22

    Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people: when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.

  • Genesis 35:6

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

  • Genesis 35:29

    Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

  • Genesis 41:40

    You will be over my house, and all my people will obey your command; only in the throne will I be greater than you.”

  • Genesis 41:55

    When all the land of Egypt was hungry, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; what he tells you do.”

  • Genesis 42:6

    Joseph was the governor over the land; he was the one who sold grain to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

  • Genesis 47:21

    And as for the people, he moved them into the cities, from one end of the territory of Egypt to the other end.

  • Genesis 47:23

    Joseph said to the people, “Look, I have bought you today, and your land, for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you; sow the land.

  • Genesis 48:4

    He said to me, ‘Look, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make you an assembly of peoples, and I will give this land to your offspring after you as an eternal possession.’

  • Genesis 48:19

    But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he too will become a people, and he too will be great; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become the fullness of the nations.”

  • Genesis 49:10

    The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him will be the obedience of the peoples.

  • Genesis 49:16

    Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

  • Genesis 49:29

    He commanded them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

  • Genesis 49:33

    When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

  • Genesis 50:20

    As for you, you planned evil against me; Elohim planned it for good, in order to bring about what is happening today: keeping alive many people.

  • Exodus 1:9

    He said to his people, “Look, the people of the sons of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we.

  • Exodus 1:20

    And Elohim dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very strong.

  • Exodus 1:22

    Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall throw into the Nile, but every daughter you shall let live.”

  • Exodus 3:7

    YHWH said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their sufferings.

  • Exodus 3:10

    So now, go, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and bring out my people, the sons of Israel, from Egypt.”

  • Exodus 3:12

    He said, “But I will be with you, and this will be the sign for you that I have sent you: when you have brought out the people from Egypt, you will serve Elohim on this mountain.”

  • Exodus 3:21

    And I will give this people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, and it will be that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.

And 1828 more times.