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 Kings 12:23: "of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,"
1 Kings 12:27: "If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD"
1 Kings 12:27: "at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto"
1 Kings 12:30: "thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto"
1 Kings 12:31: "and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not"
1 Kings 13:33: "from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests"
1 Kings 14:2: "told me that I should be king over this people."
1 Kings 14:7: "Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince"
1 Kings 14:7: "thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,"
1 Kings 16:2: "the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way"
1 Kings 16:2: "and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger"
1 Kings 16:15: "seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which"
1 Kings 16:16: " And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain"
1 Kings 16:21: "Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed"
1 Kings 16:21: "divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son"
1 Kings 16:22: " But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that"
1 Kings 16:22: "Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son"
1 Kings 18:21: "came unto all the people, and said, How long halt"
1 Kings 18:21: "follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered"
1 Kings 18:22: "Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet"
1 Kings 18:24: "be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken."
1 Kings 18:30: "And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people"
1 Kings 18:30: "Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired"
1 Kings 18:37: "me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD"
1 Kings 18:39: "And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD,"
1 Kings 19:21: "their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went"
1 Kings 20:8: "And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not"
1 Kings 20:10: "shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow"
1 Kings 20:15: "them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven"
1 Kings 20:42: "therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people."
1 Kings 20:42: "for his life, and thy people for his people."
1 Kings 21:9: "Naboth on high among the people:"
1 Kings 21:12: "Naboth on high among the people."
1 Kings 21:13: "him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God"
1 Kings 22:4: "to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses."
1 Kings 22:4: "the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses."
1 Kings 22:28: "hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every"
1 Kings 22:43: "nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet"
2 Kings 3:7: "to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses."
2 Kings 3:7: "And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses."
2 Kings 4:13: "I dwell among mine own people."
2 Kings 4:41: "the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm"
2 Kings 4:42: "and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat."
2 Kings 4:43: "men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith"
2 Kings 6:30: "passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within"
2 Kings 7:16: " And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour"
2 Kings 7:17: "he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died, as"
2 Kings 7:20: "And so it fell out unto him: for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died."
2 Kings 8:21: "which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents."
2 Kings 9:6: "I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel."
