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:
1 Samuel 5:11: "to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction"
1 Samuel 6:19: "into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men:"
1 Samuel 6:19: "thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten"
1 Samuel 6:19: "because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter."
1 Samuel 8:7: "Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto"
1 Samuel 8:10: "the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king."
1 Samuel 8:19: " Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but"
1 Samuel 8:21: "all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD."
1 Samuel 9:2: "he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people."
1 Samuel 9:12: "to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people today in the high place:"
1 Samuel 9:13: "to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come,"
1 Samuel 9:16: "of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save"
1 Samuel 9:16: "my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines:"
1 Samuel 9:16: "out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry"
1 Samuel 9:17: "to thee of! this same shall reign over my people."
1 Samuel 9:24: "hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel"
1 Samuel 10:11: "saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one"
1 Samuel 10:17: "And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;"
1 Samuel 10:23: "him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any"
1 Samuel 10:23: "among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders"
1 Samuel 10:24: "said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen,"
1 Samuel 10:24: "there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said,"
1 Samuel 10:24: "among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king."
1 Samuel 10:25: "Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote"
1 Samuel 10:25: "And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house."
1 Samuel 11:4: "and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up"
1 Samuel 11:4: "in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept."
1 Samuel 11:5: "and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him"
1 Samuel 11:7: "And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent."
1 Samuel 11:11: "so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came"
1 Samuel 11:12: " And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign"
1 Samuel 11:14: "Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew"
1 Samuel 11:15: "And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king"
1 Samuel 12:6: "And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced"
1 Samuel 12:18: "that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD"
1 Samuel 12:19: "And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants"
1 Samuel 12:20: "And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done"
1 Samuel 12:22: "will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because"
1 Samuel 12:22: "it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people."
1 Samuel 13:2: "Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent."
1 Samuel 13:4: "also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal."
1 Samuel 13:5: "and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea"
1 Samuel 13:6: "that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves,"
1 Samuel 13:6: "(for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks,"
1 Samuel 13:7: "he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling."
1 Samuel 13:8: "came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from"
1 Samuel 13:11: "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou"
1 Samuel 13:14: "hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that"
1 Samuel 13:15: "And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred"
1 Samuel 13:16: "And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah"
