Midvash

עַםʻam

עַם: people

Pronunciation: am · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5971

Meanings

1. a people, nation, (sometimes || גּוֺי) (Exodus 21:8; Joshua 17:14; Joshua 17:15)

2. = smaller units, e.g.

a. inhabitants of a city (Genesis 19:4; 1 Samuel 9:12; 1 Samuel 9:13)

b. inhabitants of a locality (Jeremiah 37:12; Deuteronomy 33:3; Hosea 10:14)

c. retainers, followers (Genesis 14:16; Genesis 32:8; Genesis 33:15)

d. people bearing arms (1 Samuel 11:11; 1 Kings 20:10; Numbers 20:20)

3. = common people (Jeremiah 21:7; Jeremiah 22:4; Leviticus 4:27)

4. people, persons, in general (Genesis 50:20; Exodus 33:16; Numbers 11:34)

5. phrases are

a. members of one's people, compatriots, fellow-countrymen (Numbers 22:5; Genesis 23:11; Leviticus 19:18)

b. common people (2 Kings 23:6; Jeremiah 26:23; Jeremiah 17:19)

c. the people (2 Kings 11:14; 2 Kings 11:18; 2 Kings 11:19)

d. peoples of the earth (Joshua 4:24; 2 Chronicles 32:19; Ezra 10:2)

עַם: kinsman, father's kinsmen, (on father's side) (Numbers 27:13; Numbers 31:2; Leviticus 19:16; Judges 5:14; Genesis 25:8)

: people (Ezra 6:12; Daniel 2:44; Daniel 3:29; Daniel 7:27; Ezra 5:12)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 1,868 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 11:6 “Look!” he said. “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them!
  • Genesis 14:16 Abram recovered all the goods that had been taken, and he brought back his nephew Lot with his possessions and all the women and other captives.
  • Genesis 17:14 Any male who fails to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for breaking the covenant.”
  • Genesis 17:16 And I will bless her and give you a son from her! Yes, I will bless her richly, and she will become the mother of many nations. Kings of nations will be among her descendants.”
  • Genesis 19:4 But before they retired for the night, all the men of Sodom, young and old, came from all over the city and surrounded the house.
  • Genesis 23:7 Then Abraham bowed low before the Hittites
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).