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:
2 Samuel 15:24: "went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city."
2 Samuel 15:30: "went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man"
2 Samuel 16:6: "of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand"
2 Samuel 16:14: "And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves"
2 Samuel 16:15: "And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel"
2 Samuel 16:18: "whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose,"
2 Samuel 17:2: "handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee;"
2 Samuel 17:3: "And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest"
2 Samuel 17:3: "is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace."
2 Samuel 17:8: "and will not lodge with the people."
2 Samuel 17:9: "that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom."
2 Samuel 17:16: "the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with"
2 Samuel 17:22: "Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over"
2 Samuel 17:29: "and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for"
2 Samuel 17:29: "him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness."
2 Samuel 18:1: "And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains"
2 Samuel 18:2: "sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand"
2 Samuel 18:2: "And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself"
2 Samuel 18:3: " But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away,"
2 Samuel 18:4: "the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands."
2 Samuel 18:5: "for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all"
2 Samuel 18:6: " So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood"
2 Samuel 18:7: "Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was"
2 Samuel 18:8: "and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured."
2 Samuel 18:16: "And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after"
2 Samuel 18:16: "for Joab held back the people."
2 Samuel 19:2: "day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say"
2 Samuel 19:2: "unto all the people: for the people heard say that day"
2 Samuel 19:3: " And the people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people"
2 Samuel 19:3: "day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle."
2 Samuel 19:8: "in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit"
2 Samuel 19:8: "doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel"
2 Samuel 19:9: "And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying,"
2 Samuel 19:39: "And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, the king"
2 Samuel 19:40: "went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king,"
2 Samuel 19:40: "the king, and also half the people of Israel."
2 Samuel 20:12: "saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa"
2 Samuel 20:15: "the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab"
2 Samuel 20:22: "went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head"
2 Samuel 22:28: "And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down."
2 Samuel 22:44: "Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people"
2 Samuel 22:44: "of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve"
2 Samuel 22:48: "It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under"
2 Samuel 23:10: "a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only"
2 Samuel 23:11: "of ground full of lentils: and the people fled from the Philistines."
2 Samuel 24:2: "even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number"
2 Samuel 24:2: "the people, that I may know the number of the people."
2 Samuel 24:3: "thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be a hundredfold,"
2 Samuel 24:4: "of the king, to number the people of Israel."
2 Samuel 24:9: "the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel"
