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 13:22: "found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan:"
1 Samuel 14:2: "a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred"
1 Samuel 14:3: "in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan"
1 Samuel 14:15: "in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also"
1 Samuel 14:17: "Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see"
1 Samuel 14:20: "And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to"
1 Samuel 14:24: "for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that"
1 Samuel 14:24: "that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food."
1 Samuel 14:26: " And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no"
1 Samuel 14:26: "to his mouth: for the people feared the oath."
1 Samuel 14:27: "heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth"
1 Samuel 14:28: "Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath,"
1 Samuel 14:28: "of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath,"
1 Samuel 14:28: "saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people"
1 Samuel 14:30: "How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today"
1 Samuel 14:31: "day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint."
1 Samuel 14:32: " And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves,"
1 Samuel 14:32: "and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood."
1 Samuel 14:33: "Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with"
1 Samuel 14:34: "And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man"
1 Samuel 14:34: "in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox"
1 Samuel 14:38: "hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin"
1 Samuel 14:39: "my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered"
1 Samuel 14:40: "will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do"
1 Samuel 14:41: "lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped."
1 Samuel 14:45: " And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought"
1 Samuel 14:45: "with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan,"
1 Samuel 15:1: "me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken"
1 Samuel 15:4: "And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand"
1 Samuel 15:8: "alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword."
1 Samuel 15:9: "But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen,"
1 Samuel 15:15: "They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best"
1 Samuel 15:21: " But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed,"
1 Samuel 15:24: "because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice."
1 Samuel 15:30: "I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with"
1 Samuel 17:27: " And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man"
1 Samuel 17:30: "him toward another, and spoke after the same manner: and the people answered"
1 Samuel 18:5: "of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's"
1 Samuel 18:13: "over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people."
1 Samuel 23:8: "called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege"
1 Samuel 26:5: "the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about"
1 Samuel 26:7: "and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay"
1 Samuel 26:7: "in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about"
1 Samuel 26:14: "And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner,"
1 Samuel 26:15: "the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king"
1 Samuel 27:12: "believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be"
1 Samuel 30:4: "Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept,"
1 Samuel 30:6: "was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul"
1 Samuel 30:6: "him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons"
1 Samuel 30:21: "and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David"
