leom · people, nation

What it means

leom (לְאֹם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “people, nation”.

How to say it

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 of the same origin or country; in the plural, the nations.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• peoples ×20
• nations ×11
• people ×3
• nation ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Psalms×15
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×11
• Jeremiah×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 25:23

  YHWH said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from your inner parts will be divided; one people will be stronger than the other people, and the older will serve the younger.”

• 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.”

• Psalms 2:1

  Why are the nations in turmoil, and the peoples meditate a vain thing?

• Psalms 7:7

  And the community of the peoples will surround you; and over it return on high.

• Psalms 9:8

  And he will judge the world in righteousness; he will judge the peoples with uprightness.

• Psalms 44:2

  You, with your hand, dispossessed nations, and planted them; you mistreated peoples, and spread them out.

• Psalms 44:14

  You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

• Psalms 47:3

  He subdues peoples under us, and nations under our feet.

• Psalms 57:9

  I will give you thanks among the peoples, Adonai; I will sing psalms to you among the nations.

• Psalms 65:7

  who stills the roar of the seas, the roar of their waves, and the commotion of the peoples.

• Psalms 67:4

  Let the nations be glad and shout for joy, for you judge the peoples with uprightness, and the nations on the earth you guide. Selah.

• Psalms 105:44

  And he gave them the lands of the nations, and the toil of the peoples they possessed,

• Psalms 108:3

  I will give you thanks among the peoples, YHWH; I will sing psalms to you among the nations.

• Psalms 148:11

  kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all judges of the earth,

• Psalms 149:7

  to execute vengeance on the nations, punishments on the peoples,

• Proverbs 11:26

  Whoever withholds grain, the people will curse him, but blessing is on the head of the one who sells it.

• Proverbs 14:28

  In the multitude of people is the majesty of a king, but in the lack of a nation is the ruin of a prince.

• Proverbs 14:34

  Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to peoples.

• Proverbs 24:24

  Whoever says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, nations will be indignant with him;

• Isaiah 17:12

  Woe! The tumult of many peoples, like the roaring of the seas they roar; and the uproar of the nations, like the uproar of mighty waters they resound.

• Isaiah 17:13

  The nations, like the uproar of many waters, resound; but he rebukes it, and it flees far away, and is chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like whirling dust before the storm wind.

• Isaiah 34:1

  Draw near, nations, to hear, and peoples, pay attention! Let the earth hear, and what fills it, the world and all that comes forth from it.

• Isaiah 41:1

  Be silent before me, coastlands, and let the peoples renew their strength; let them come near, then let them speak; together to judgment let us draw near.

• Isaiah 43:4

  Because you are precious in my eyes, you are honored, and I have loved you; and I will give human beings in your place, and peoples in exchange for your soul.

• Isaiah 43:9

  Let all the nations gather together, and let the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and make us hear the former things? Let them give their witnesses and be declared righteous; and let them hear and say, “It is truth.”

• Isaiah 49:1

  Listen to me, coastlands, and pay attention, peoples from afar: YHWH called me from the womb; from the inward parts of my mother he made mention of my name.

• Isaiah 51:4

  “Pay attention to me, my people, and my nation, give ear to me; for instruction will go out from me, and my justice as a light of the peoples I will establish.

• Isaiah 55:4

  Look, as a witness to peoples I have given him, a leader and commander of peoples.

• Isaiah 60:2

  For look, darkness will cover the earth, and thick cloud the peoples; but upon you YHWH will rise, and his glory will be seen upon you.

• Jeremiah 51:58

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly razed, and her high gates will be burned with fire; and peoples labor for nothing, and nations for the fire, and they grow weary.

• Habakkuk 2:13

  Is it not, look, from YHWH Tsevaot that peoples labor for the fire, and nations grow weary for nothing?

And 5 more times.