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
- Psalms 149:4 בְּעַמּ֑וֹ
For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.
- Proverbs 11:14 עָ֑ם
For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.
- Proverbs 14:28 עָ֥ם
A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.
- Proverbs 24:24 עַמִּ֑ים
Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”— peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;
- Proverbs 28:15 עַם־
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.
- Proverbs 29:2 הָעָ֑םעָֽם׃
When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
- Proverbs 29:18 עָ֑ם
Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the Law.
- Proverbs 30:25 עַ֣ם
The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;
- Proverbs 30:26 עַ֣ם
the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;
- Ecclesiastes 4:16 הָעָ֗ם
There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 12:9 הָעָ֔ם
Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.
- Song of Solomon 6:12 עַמִּי־
Before I realized it, my desire had set me among the royal chariots of my people.
- Isaiah 1:3 עַמִּ֖י
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
- Isaiah 1:4 עַ֚ם
Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
- Isaiah 1:10 עַ֥ם
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
- Isaiah 2:3 עַמִּ֣ים
And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 2:4 לְעַמִּ֣ים
Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
- Isaiah 2:6 עַמְּךָ֙
For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
- Isaiah 3:5 הָעָ֔ם
The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.
- Isaiah 3:7 עָֽם׃
On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”
- Isaiah 3:12 עַמִּי֙עַמִּי֙
Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.
- Isaiah 3:13 עַמִּֽים׃
The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.
- Isaiah 3:14 עַמּ֖וֹ
The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
- Isaiah 3:15 עַמִּ֔י
Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 5:13 עַמִּ֖י
Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
- Isaiah 5:25 בְּעַמּ֜וֹ
Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
- Isaiah 6:5 עַם־
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
- Isaiah 6:9 לָעָ֣ם
And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
- Isaiah 6:10 הָעָ֣ם
Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
- Isaiah 7:2 עַמּ֔וֹ
When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.
- Isaiah 7:8 מֵעָֽם׃
For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.
- Isaiah 7:17 עַמְּךָ֮
The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”
- Isaiah 8:6 הָעָ֣ם
“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
- Isaiah 8:9 עַמִּים֙
Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!
- Isaiah 8:11 הָֽעָם־
For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:
- Isaiah 8:12 הָעָ֥ם
“Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.
- Isaiah 8:19 עַם֙
When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
- Isaiah 9:2 הָעָם֙
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
- Isaiah 9:9 הָעָ֣ם
All the people will know it— Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:
- Isaiah 9:13 וְהָעָ֥ם
But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 9:16 הָֽעָם־
For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.
- Isaiah 9:19 הָעָם֙
By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.
- Isaiah 10:2 עַמִּ֑י
to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
- Isaiah 10:6 עַ֥ם
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
- Isaiah 10:13 עַמִּ֗ים
For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
- Isaiah 10:14 הָֽעַמִּ֔ים
My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
- Isaiah 10:22 עַמְּךָ֤
Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
- Isaiah 10:24 עַמִּ֛י
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, who strikes you with a rod and lifts his staff against you as the Egyptians did.
- Isaiah 11:10 עַמִּ֔ים
On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
- Isaiah 11:11 עַמּ֑וֹ
On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.