עַם
ʻam · H5972 · Aramaic · 15 occurrences
Meanings
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people
A relatively large body of people united by a common location, descent, religion, language, activity, or fate
ExamplesEzra 5:12 ‘But because our fathers provoked the God of heaven to wrath, He handed them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.
Ezra 6:12 “May the God who has caused His name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who attempts to change it, so as to destroy that house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued this decree; it is to be carried out with all diligence!”
Ezra 7:13 I have issued a decree that any of the people of Israel and their priests and the Levites in my kingdom who are willing to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קַדִּישׁholy, saint 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
7 occurrences in 6 groups
- דּוּרdwell 2
- אׇחֳרָןother 1
- נְדַבfreewill 1
- אֲמַרto say 1
- עֲבַרbeyond 1
- שְׁלַחput 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יִשְׂרָאֵלIsrael 1
What it doesIt is the subject
5 occurrences in 6 groups
- דְּחַלto fear, terrifying 1
- זוּעַtremble 1
- נְפַלfall 1
- עֲבַדcut 1
- פְּלַחminister 1
- שְׁמַעhear 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- גְּלָהbring over 1
- מְגַרdestroy 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּרNebuchadnezzar 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 9
- מִןfrom 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נְדַבfreewill 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- λαός laós · G2992 · nation, people, people of God
- Greek λαός (laós, G2992) is the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew עַם (ʻam, H5972), both denoting 'a people' as a collective ethnic or national group, with λαός carrying the specific semantic nuance of 'people in general' (as distinct from δῆμος, one's own citizen-body) that maps directly to עַם's broad usage across covenant, gentile, and generic collective contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Groups001001003004
- Daniel 3:4 recounts that the herald proclaimed, “to you the command is given, you peoples, nations, and populations of all languages.”
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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