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)
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- Nehemiah 10:31 וְעַמֵּ֣י
When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.
- Nehemiah 10:34 וְהָעָם֒
We have cast lots among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our families at the appointed times each year. They are to bring it to the house of our God to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.
- Nehemiah 11:1 הָעָ֖םהָ֠עָם
Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city of Jerusalem, while the remaining nine were to dwell in their own towns.
- Nehemiah 11:2 הָעָ֑ם
And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.
- Nehemiah 11:24 לָעָֽם׃
Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, a descendant of Zerah son of Judah, was the king’s agent in every matter concerning the people.
- Nehemiah 12:30 הָעָ֔ם
After the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
- Nehemiah 12:38 הָעָ֜ם
The second thanksgiving choir proceeded to the left, and I followed it with half the people along the top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,
- Nehemiah 13:1 הָעָ֑ם
At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
- Nehemiah 13:24 עַ֥םוָעָֽם׃
Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.
- Esther 1:5 הָעָ֣ם
At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.
- Esther 1:11 הָֽעַמִּ֤ים
to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.
- Esther 1:16 הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים
And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes.
- Esther 1:22 עַ֥םוָעָ֖םעַמּֽוֹ׃פ
He sent letters to all the provinces of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be master of his own household.
- Esther 2:10 עַמָּ֖הּ
Esther did not reveal her people or her lineage, because Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.
- Esther 2:20 עַמָּ֔הּ
Esther still had not revealed her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed. She obeyed Mordecai’s command, as she had done under his care.
- Esther 3:6 עַ֣םעַ֥ם
And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
- Esther 3:8 עַם־הָֽעַמִּ֔יםעָ֗ם
Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.
- Esther 3:11 וְהָעָ֕ם
“Keep your money,” said the king to Haman. “These people are given to you to do with them as you please.”
- Esther 3:12 עַם֙וָעָ֔םוְעַ֥םוָעָ֖ם
On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.
- Esther 3:14 הָֽעַמִּ֑ים
A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that they would be ready on that day.
- Esther 4:8 עַמָּֽהּ׃
Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.
- Esther 4:11 וְעַם־
“All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”
- Esther 7:3 וְעַמִּ֖י
Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
- Esther 7:4 וְעַמִּ֔י
For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
- Esther 8:6 עַמִּ֑י
For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
- Esther 8:9 וְעַ֥םוָעָ֖ם
At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan ), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush —writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
- Esther 8:11 עַ֧ם
By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.
- Esther 8:13 הָעַמִּ֑ים
A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
- Esther 8:17 מֵֽעַמֵּ֤י
In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.
- Esther 9:2 הָעַמִּֽים׃
In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.
- Esther 10:3 לְעַמּ֔וֹ
For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
- Job 12:2 עָ֑ם
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
- Job 12:24 עַם־
He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- Job 17:6 עַמִּ֑ים
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
- Job 18:19 בְּעַמּ֑וֹ
He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
- Job 34:20 עָ֣ם
They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
- Job 34:30 עָֽם׃
that godless men should not rule or lay snares for the people.
- Job 36:20 עַמִּ֣ים
Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
- Job 36:31 עַמִּ֑ים
For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.
- Psalms 3:6 עָ֑ם
I will not fear the myriads set against me on every side.
- Psalms 3:8 עַמְּךָ֖
Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah
- Psalms 7:8 עַ֫מִּ֥ים
The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
- Psalms 9:11 בָ֝עַמִּ֗ים
Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion; proclaim His deeds among the nations.
- Psalms 14:4 עַ֭מִּי
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
- Psalms 14:7 עַמּ֑וֹ
Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the LORD restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
- Psalms 18:27 עַם־
For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.
- Psalms 18:43 עָ֥םעַ֖ם
You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
- Psalms 18:47 עַמִּ֣ים
the God who avenges me and subdues nations beneath me,
- Psalms 22:6 עָֽם׃
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
- Psalms 22:31 לְעַ֥ם
They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn— all that He has done.