עַם
am
1. nation, people
a. people, nation
b. persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
kinsman, kindred
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, only mentioned at Sng.6.12
§ kinsman, kindred
§ kinsman, kindred
Combined with yiv.le.am (יִבְלְעָם "Ibleam" H2991)
§ kinsman, kindred
This name means nation, people
1. nation, people
a. people, nation
b. persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
1. nation, people
a. people, nation
b. persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 1,655 verses
- 2 Chronicles 1:11 עַמִּ֔י
God said to Solomon, “Since this was in your heart instead of requesting riches or wealth or glory for yourself or death for your enemies—and since you have not even requested long life but have asked for wisdom and knowledge to govern My people over whom I have made you king—
- 2 Chronicles 2:11 עַמּ֔וֹ
Then Hiram king of Tyre wrote a letter in reply to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has set you over them as king.”
- 2 Chronicles 2:18 הָעָֽם׃
Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
- 2 Chronicles 6:5 עַמִּי֮עַמִּ֥י
‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 6:6 עַמִּ֥י
But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
- 2 Chronicles 6:21 וְעַמְּךָ֣
Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
- 2 Chronicles 6:24 עַמְּךָ֧
When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple,
- 2 Chronicles 6:25 עַמְּךָ֣
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 6:27 וְעַמְּךָ֣לְעַמְּךָ֖
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
- 2 Chronicles 6:29 עַמְּךָ֣
then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
- 2 Chronicles 6:32 מֵעַמְּךָ֣
And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
- 2 Chronicles 6:33 עַמֵּ֨יכְּעַמְּךָ֣
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
- 2 Chronicles 6:34 עַמְּךָ֤
When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
- 2 Chronicles 6:39 לְעַמְּךָ֖
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.
- 2 Chronicles 7:4 הָעָ֑ם
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 7:5 הָעָֽם׃
And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 7:10 הָעָ֖םעַמּֽוֹ׃
On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 7:13 בְּעַמִּֽי׃
If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 עַמִּ֜י
and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
- 2 Chronicles 7:20 הָעַמִּֽים׃
then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
- 2 Chronicles 8:7 הָ֠עָם
As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—
- 2 Chronicles 8:10 בָּעָֽם׃
They were also the chief officers for King Solomon: 250 supervisors.
- 2 Chronicles 10:5 הָעָֽם׃ס
Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.
- 2 Chronicles 10:6 לָֽעָם־
Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
- 2 Chronicles 10:7 לְהָעָ֤ם
They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
- 2 Chronicles 10:9 הָעָ֣ם
He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
- 2 Chronicles 10:10 לָעָם֩
The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
- 2 Chronicles 10:12 הָעָ֛ם
After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
- 2 Chronicles 10:15 הָעָ֑ם
So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
- 2 Chronicles 10:16 הָעָ֣ם
When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,
- 2 Chronicles 12:3 לָעָ֞ם
with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.
- 2 Chronicles 13:9 כְּעַמֵּ֣י
But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for yourselves as do the peoples of other lands? Now whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of things that are not gods.
- 2 Chronicles 13:17 וְעַמּ֖וֹ
Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.
- 2 Chronicles 14:13 וְהָעָ֣ם
Then Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell and could not recover, for they were crushed before the LORD and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great amount of plunder
- 2 Chronicles 16:10 הָעָ֖ם
Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
- 2 Chronicles 17:9 בָּעָֽם׃
They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the LORD. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.
- 2 Chronicles 18:2 וְלָעָ֖ם
And some years later he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria, where Ahab sacrificed many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him, and urged him to march up to Ramoth-gilead.
- 2 Chronicles 18:3 וּכְעַמְּךָ֣עַמִּ֔י
Ahab king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat replied, “I am like you, and my people are your people; we will join you in the war.”
- 2 Chronicles 18:27 עַמִּ֥ים
But Micaiah replied, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take heed, all you people!”
- 2 Chronicles 19:4 בָעָ֗ם
Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 20:7 עַמְּךָ֣
Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?
- 2 Chronicles 20:21 הָעָ֔ם
Then Jehoshaphat consulted with the people and appointed those who would sing to the LORD and praise the splendor of His holiness. As they went out before the army, they were singing: “Give thanks to the LORD, for His loving devotion endures forever.”
- 2 Chronicles 20:25 וְעַמּוֹ֮
Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables —more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.
- 2 Chronicles 20:33 הָעָם֙
The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 21:14 בְּעַמֶּ֑ךָ
So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.
- 2 Chronicles 21:19 עַמּ֛וֹ
This continued day after day until two full years had passed. Finally, his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died in severe pain. And his people did not make a fire in his honor as they had done for his fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 23:5 הָעָ֔ם
a third shall be at the royal palace, and a third at the Foundation Gate, while all the others are in the courtyards of the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 23:6 הָעָ֔ם
No one is to enter the house of the LORD except the priests and those Levites who serve; they may enter because they are consecrated, but all the people are to obey the requirement of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 23:10 הָעָ֜ם
He stationed all the troops, with their weapons in hand, surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
- 2 Chronicles 23:12 הָעָם֙הָעָ֖ם
When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and cheering the king, she went out to them in the house of the LORD.