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

1 Samuel 26:5 - And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people H5971 pitched round about him.

1 Samuel 26:7 - So David and Abishai came to the people H5971 by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people H5971 lay round about him.

1 Samuel 26:14 - And David cried to the people, H5971 and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?

1 Samuel 26:15 - And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people H5971 in to destroy the king thy lord.

1 Samuel 27:12 - And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people H5971 Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.

1 Samuel 30:4 - Then David and the people H5971 that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

1 Samuel 30:6 - And David was greatly distressed; for the people H5971 spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people H5971 was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

1 Samuel 30:21 - And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people H5971 that were with him: and when David came near to the people, H5971 he saluted them.

1 Samuel 31:9 - And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people. H5971

2 Samuel 1:4 - And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people H5971 are fled from the battle, and many of the people H5971 also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.

2 Samuel 1:12 - And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people H5971 of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

2 Samuel 2:26 - Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people H5971 return from following their brethren?

2 Samuel 2:27 - And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people H5971 had gone up every one from following his brother.

2 Samuel 2:28 - So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people H5971 stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.

2 Samuel 2:30 - And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people H5971 together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.

2 Samuel 3:18 - Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people H5971 Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.

2 Samuel 3:31 - And David said to Joab, and to all the people H5971 that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

2 Samuel 3:32 - And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people H5971 wept.

2 Samuel 3:34 - Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people H5971 wept again over him.

2 Samuel 3:35 - And when all the people H5971 came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.

2 Samuel 3:36 - And all the people H5971 took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people. H5971

2 Samuel 3:37 - For all the people H5971 and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

2 Samuel 5:2 - Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people H5971 Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.

2 Samuel 5:12 - And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people H5971 Israel's sake.

2 Samuel 6:2 - And David arose, and went with all the people H5971 that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.

2 Samuel 6:18 - And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people H5971 in the name of the LORD of hosts.

2 Samuel 6:19 - And he dealt among all the people, H5971 even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people H5971 departed every one to his house.

2 Samuel 6:21 - And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people H5971 of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.

2 Samuel 7:7 - In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people H5971 Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

2 Samuel 7:8 - Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, H5971 over Israel:

2 Samuel 7:10 - Moreover I will appoint a place for my people H5971 Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,

2 Samuel 7:11 - And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people H5971 Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.

2 Samuel 7:23 - And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, H5971 even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people H5971 to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, H5971 which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

2 Samuel 7:24 - For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people H5971 Israel to be a people H5971 unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.

2 Samuel 8:15 - And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people. H5971

2 Samuel 10:10 - And the rest of the people H5971 he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put them in array against the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 10:12 - Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, H5971 and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.

2 Samuel 10:13 - And Joab drew nigh, and the people H5971 that were with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.

2 Samuel 11:7 - And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people H5971 did, and how the war prospered.

2 Samuel 11:17 - And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people H5971 of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

2 Samuel 12:28 - Now therefore gather the rest of the people H5971 together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.

2 Samuel 12:29 - And David gathered all the people H5971 together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.

2 Samuel 12:31 - And he brought forth the people H5971 that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people H5971 returned unto Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 13:34 - But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people H5971 by the way of the hill side behind him.

2 Samuel 14:13 - And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people H5971 of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.

2 Samuel 14:15 - Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people H5971 have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.

2 Samuel 15:12 - And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people H5971 increased continually with Absalom.

2 Samuel 15:17 - And the king went forth, and all the people H5971 after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.

2 Samuel 15:23 - And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people H5971 passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people H5971 passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

2 Samuel 15:24 - And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people H5971 had done passing out of the city.