Strong's Concordance H5971

Original Word: עַם
Transliteration: ʻam
Phonetic Spelling: am
from H6004; 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.

Usages throughout the bible

Judges 20:2 - And the chief of all the people, H5971 even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people H5971 of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

Judges 20:8 - And all the people H5971 arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.

Judges 20:10 - And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, H5971 that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

Judges 20:16 - Among all this people H5971 there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

Judges 20:22 - And the people H5971 the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

Judges 20:26 - Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, H5971 went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

Judges 20:31 - And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, H5971 and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, H5971 and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

Judges 21:2 - And the people H5971 came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;

Judges 21:4 - And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people H5971 rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

Judges 21:9 - For the people H5971 were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.

Judges 21:15 - And the people H5971 repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Ruth 1:6 - Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people H5971 in giving them bread.

Ruth 1:10 - And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. H5971

Ruth 1:15 - And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, H5971 and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.

Ruth 1:16 - And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people H5971 shall be my people, H5971 and thy God my God:

Ruth 2:11 - And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people H5971 which thou knewest not heretofore.

Ruth 3:11 - And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people H5971 doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.

Ruth 4:4 - And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. H5971 If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.

Ruth 4:9 - And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, H5971 Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.

Ruth 4:11 - And all the people H5971 that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

1 Samuel 2:13 - And the priests' custom with the people H5971 was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;

1 Samuel 2:23 - And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people. H5971

1 Samuel 2:24 - Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people H5971 to transgress.

1 Samuel 2:29 - Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people? H5971

1 Samuel 4:3 - And when the people H5971 were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.

1 Samuel 4:4 - So the people H5971 sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Samuel 4:17 - And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, H5971 and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

1 Samuel 5:10 - Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people. H5971

1 Samuel 5:11 - So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: H5971 for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

1 Samuel 6:19 - And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people H5971 fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people H5971 lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people H5971 with a great slaughter.

1 Samuel 8:7 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people H5971 in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

1 Samuel 8:10 - And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people H5971 that asked of him a king.

1 Samuel 8:19 - Nevertheless the people H5971 refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;

1 Samuel 8:21 - And Samuel heard all the words of the people, H5971 and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.

1 Samuel 9:2 - And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people. H5971

1 Samuel 9:12 - And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people H5971 to day in the high place:

1 Samuel 9:13 - As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people H5971 will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.

1 Samuel 9:16 - To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people H5971 Israel, that he may save my people H5971 out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, H5971 because their cry is come unto me.

1 Samuel 9:17 - And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people. H5971

1 Samuel 9:24 - And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. H5971 So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.

1 Samuel 10:11 - And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people H5971 said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?

1 Samuel 10:17 - And Samuel called the people H5971 together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;

1 Samuel 10:23 - And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, H5971 he was higher than any of the people H5971 from his shoulders and upward.

1 Samuel 10:24 - And Samuel said to all the people, H5971 See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? H5971 And all the people H5971 shouted, and said, God save the king.

1 Samuel 10:25 - Then Samuel told the people H5971 the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people H5971 away, every man to his house.

1 Samuel 11:4 - Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: H5971 and all the people H5971 lifted up their voices, and wept.

1 Samuel 11:5 - And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people H5971 that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.

1 Samuel 11:7 - And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, H5971 and they came out with one consent.

1 Samuel 11:11 - And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people H5971 in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.

1 Samuel 11:12 - And the people H5971 said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.