# H5971 עַם

עַם (ʻam), Strong’s H5971: a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock KJV: folk, men, nation…

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*ʻam* — a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

KJV: folk, men, nation, people.

Derived from [עָמַם ʻâmam](https://besorah.bible/word/H6004) (to associate)

Occurs 1868 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [עַם] n.[m.] kinsman (on father's side)
- עַם n.m
- עַם, עָם 1810 n.m. people
- 1 a people, nation
- 2 = smaller units
- 3 = common people
- 4 people in gen., persons
- 5 phrases

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 11:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=6) — The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now…
- [Genesis 14:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=16) — He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other…
- [Genesis 17:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=14) — The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people…
- [Genesis 17:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=16) — I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of…
- [Genesis 19:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=4) — But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the…
- [Genesis 23:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=7) — Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.
- [Genesis 23:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=11) — “No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of…
- [Genesis 23:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=12) — Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.
- [Genesis 23:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=13) — He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the…
- [Genesis 25:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=8) — Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.