Strong's #5971: `am (pronounced am)
from 6004; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock:--folk, men, nation, people.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
‛am
1) nation, people
1a) people, nation
1b) persons, members of one' s people, compatriots, country-men
2) kinsman, kindred
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H6004
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1640a, 1640e
Usage:
This word is used 1868 times:
Joshua 14:8: "with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed"
Joshua 17:14: "to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?"
Joshua 17:15: "answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down"
Joshua 17:17: "saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have"
Joshua 24:2: "said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God"
Joshua 24:16: " And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD,"
Joshua 24:17: "us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:"
Joshua 24:18: "from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land:"
Joshua 24:19: "And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve"
Joshua 24:21: " And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve"
Joshua 24:22: "And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye"
Joshua 24:24: " And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve,"
Joshua 24:25: "So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute"
Joshua 24:27: "said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be"
Joshua 24:28: "So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance."
Judges 1:16: "lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people."
Judges 2:4: "all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept."
Judges 2:6: "And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man"
Judges 2:7: " And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all"
Judges 2:12: "of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people"
Judges 3:18: "the present, he sent away the people that bore the present."
Judges 4:13: "chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles"
Judges 5:2: "ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves."
Judges 5:9: "is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD."
Judges 5:11: "even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates."
Judges 5:13: "he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty."
Judges 5:14: "of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors,"
Judges 5:18: "Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeopardized their lives unto the death in the high places"
Judges 7:1: "who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched"
Judges 7:2: "said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give"
Judges 7:3: "therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid,"
Judges 7:3: "from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand;"
Judges 7:4: "said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down"
Judges 7:5: "So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto"
Judges 7:6: "men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink"
Judges 7:7: "the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place."
Judges 7:8: " So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all"
Judges 8:5: "I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they"
Judges 9:29: "And would to God this people were under my hand! then would I remove"
Judges 9:32: "therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:"
Judges 9:33: "the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against"
Judges 9:34: "And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait"
Judges 9:35: "of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait."
Judges 9:36: "And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold,"
Judges 9:36: "to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains."
Judges 9:37: "again and said, See there come people down by the middle"
Judges 9:38: "we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray"
Judges 9:42: "And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech."
Judges 9:43: "And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field,"
Judges 9:43: "in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up"
