עַם

am

Hebrew H5971 Noun, masculine 1,868 occurrences in 1,655 verses

עַם people

1. nation, people

a. people, nation

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

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Judges 18:27 עַם֙

After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a tranquil and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.
Judges 20:2 הָעָ֗םעַ֣ם

The leaders of all the people and all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: 400,000 men on foot, armed with swords.
Judges 20:8 הָעָ֔ם

Then all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.
Judges 20:10 לָעָ֑ם

We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”
Judges 20:16 הָעָ֣ם

Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
Judges 20:22 הָעָ֖ם

But the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.
Judges 20:26 הָעָ֜ם

Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.
Judges 20:31 הָעָ֔םמֵהָעָ֨ם

The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
Judges 21:2 הָעָם֙

So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
Judges 21:4 הָעָ֔ם

The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.
Judges 21:9 הָעָ֑ם

For when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.
Judges 21:15 וְהָעָ֥ם

The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.
Ruth 1:6 עַמּ֔וֹ

When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
Ruth 1:10 לְעַמֵּֽךְ׃

and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
Ruth 1:15 עַמָּ֖הּ

“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
Ruth 1:16 עַמֵּ֣ךְעַמִּ֔י

But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
Ruth 2:11 עַ֕ם

Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
Ruth 3:11 עַמִּ֔י

And now do not be afraid, my daughter. I will do for you whatever you request, since all my fellow townspeople know that you are a woman of noble character.
Ruth 4:4 עַמִּי֒

I thought I should inform you that you may buy it back in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, do so. But if you will not redeem it, tell me so I may know, because there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.” “I will redeem it,” he replied.
Ruth 4:9 הָעָ֗ם

At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.
Ruth 4:11 הָעָ֧ם

“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.
1 Samuel 2:13 הָעָ֑ם

or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
1 Samuel 2:23 הָעָ֥ם

“Why are you doing these things?” Eli said to his sons. “I hear about your wicked deeds from all these people.
1 Samuel 2:24 עַם־

No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD’s people.
1 Samuel 2:29 לְעַמִּֽי׃

Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
1 Samuel 4:3 הָעָם֮

When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with us to save us from the hand of our enemies.”
1 Samuel 4:4 הָעָם֙

So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Samuel 4:17 בָעָ֑ם

The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
1 Samuel 5:10 עַמִּֽי׃

So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!”
1 Samuel 5:11 עַמִּ֑י

Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it.
1 Samuel 6:19 בָּעָם֙הָעָ֔םבָּעָ֖ם

But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.
1 Samuel 8:7 הָעָ֔ם

And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
1 Samuel 8:10 הָעָ֕ם

So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
1 Samuel 8:19 הָעָ֔ם

Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.
1 Samuel 8:21 הָעָ֑ם

Samuel listened to all the words of the people and repeated them in the hearing of the LORD.
1 Samuel 9:2 הָעָֽם׃

And he had a son named Saul, choice and handsome, without equal among the Israelites—a head taller than any of the people.
1 Samuel 9:12 לָעָ֖ם

“Yes, he is ahead of you,” they answered. “Hurry now, for today he has come to the city because the people have a sacrifice on the high place.
1 Samuel 9:13 הָעָם֙

As soon as you enter the city, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests will eat. Go up at once; you will find him.”
1 Samuel 9:16 עַמִּ֣יעַמִּ֖יעַמִּ֔י

“At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him leader over My people Israel; he will save them from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me.”
1 Samuel 9:17 בְּעַמִּֽי׃

When Samuel saw Saul, the LORD told him, “Here is the man of whom I spoke; he shall rule over My people.”
1 Samuel 9:24 הָעָ֣ם׀

So the cook picked up the leg and what was attached to it and set it before Saul. Then Samuel said, “Here is what was kept back. It was set apart for you. Eat, for it has been kept for you for this occasion, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul dined with Samuel that day.
1 Samuel 10:11 הָעָ֜ם

All those who had formerly known Saul and saw him prophesying with the prophets asked one another, “What has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”
1 Samuel 10:17 הָעָ֔ם

After this, Samuel summoned the people to the LORD at Mizpah
1 Samuel 10:23 הָעָ֑םהָעָ֔ם

So they ran and brought Saul, and when he stood among the people, he was a head taller than any of the others.
1 Samuel 10:24 הָעָ֗םהָעָ֑םהָעָ֛ם

Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”
1 Samuel 10:25 הָעָ֗םהָעָ֖ם

Then Samuel explained to the people the rights of kingship. He wrote them on a scroll and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, each to his own home.
1 Samuel 11:4 הָעָ֑םהָעָ֛ם

When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.
1 Samuel 11:5 לָּעָ֖ם

Just then Saul was returning from the field, behind his oxen. “What troubles the people?” asked Saul. “Why are they weeping?” And they relayed to him the words of the men from Jabesh.
1 Samuel 11:7 הָעָ֔ם

He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent them by messengers throughout the land of Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not march behind Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the LORD fell upon the people, and they turned out as one man.
1 Samuel 11:11 הָעָם֮

The next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions, and during the morning watch they invaded the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them, until the hottest part of the day. And the survivors were so scattered that no two of them were left together.