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:
Judges 9:45: "the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city,"
Judges 9:48: "Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took"
Judges 9:48: "his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen"
Judges 9:49: "And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed"
Judges 10:18: " And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What"
Judges 11:11: "with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over"
Judges 11:20: "to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched"
Judges 11:21: "Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel"
Judges 11:23: "the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess"
Judges 12:2: "said unto them, I and my people were at great strife"
Judges 14:3: "among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take"
Judges 14:16: "thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold,"
Judges 14:17: "upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people."
Judges 16:24: " And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god"
Judges 16:30: "the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew"
Judges 18:7: "to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless,"
Judges 18:10: "When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for"
Judges 18:20: "and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people."
Judges 18:27: "unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge"
Judges 20:2: "And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly"
Judges 20:2: "of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand"
Judges 20:8: "And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any"
Judges 20:10: "out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin,"
Judges 20:16: "Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men"
Judges 20:22: " And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array"
Judges 20:26: "the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept,"
Judges 20:31: "of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began"
Judges 20:31: "the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times,"
Judges 21:2: " And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before"
Judges 21:4: "And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar,"
Judges 21:9: " For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead"
Judges 21:15: " And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes"
Ruth 1:6: "how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread."
Ruth 1:10: "unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people."
Ruth 1:15: "thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after"
Ruth 1:16: "thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God"
Ruth 1:16: "I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:"
Ruth 2:11: "of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore."
Ruth 3:11: "for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman."
Ruth 4:4: "it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem"
Ruth 4:9: "said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that"
Ruth 4:11: "And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD"
1 Samuel 2:13: "And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice,"
1 Samuel 2:23: "by all this people."
1 Samuel 2:24: "I hear: ye make the LORD's people to transgress."
1 Samuel 2:29: "with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?"
1 Samuel 4:3: " And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore"
1 Samuel 4:4: " So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark"
1 Samuel 4:17: "also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni"
1 Samuel 5:10: "of Israel to us, to slay us and our people."
