4680 occurrences in 13 translations

'People' in the Bible

A son was born to Seth also, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of Yahweh.

Abel and CainCalling upon GodGod, The LordGod, Titles And Names OfActivity Begun

So the LORD said, "I will annihilate these human beings whom I've created from the earth, including people, animals, crawling things, and flying creatures, because I'm grieving that I made them."

God, As JudgeFlood, TheAnimals, religious role ofAirThe DelugeDestruction Of All CreaturesGod KillingBoth Men And Animals KilledGod Killing All PeopleMan's Relationship With His CreatorRegretting

So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

Flood, TheCovenant, God's with NoahRemnantDeath Of CreaturesGod KillingSole SurvivorsDeath Of Other GroupsGod Killing All People

These are the families of Noah's sons, according to their records, by their nations. From these people, the nations on the earth spread out after the flood.

NationalismNoah's Flood

As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Facing EastLiving In The Land

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

God Going DownGod Seeing The Wicked

He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people he had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Abraham

And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.

Sin, Nature OfSodom And GomorrahCitiesYielding To Temptation

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, so when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of their people fell into them, while the rest fled to the hill country.

Bitumen and tarMineralsEscaping To MountainsPeople Falling From A HeightPeoples Who FledSurvivors Of The Nations

And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

Restoring ThingsTaking Other People

Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the possessions for yourself.”

Abraham, Characteristics OfSlavery, In Ot

And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

ForeignersOppression, Nature Of100 Years And MoreSojourningSure KnowledgeThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelDescendants ofslaveryoppression

And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

ForeskinsBreaking The Covenant

And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

Babies, Blessing From GodMothers Of KingsGifts Of GodGod Will BlessOther Gifts Of GodMothers And SonsBabies Being A Blessingsarah

And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money every male among the people of Abraham's house and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to him.

ForeskinsAt The Same TimeGroups Of Slaves

What if there are 50 righteous people in the city? Will You really sweep it away instead of sparing the place for the sake of the 50 righteous people who are in it?

FiftiesDestruction Of CitiesNot SparingNumbers Of Righteous People

The Lord said, “If I find 50 righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

FiftiesNumbers Of Righteous PeopleA Good Man

what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy the whole city because five are lacking?" He replied, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."

Five PeopleFortiesNumbers Of Righteous PeopleShortage Other Than Food

Then Abraham said, “Oh may the Lord not be angry [with me], and I will speak only this once; suppose ten [righteous people] are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

God, Patience OfTen PeopleLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To GodWorth

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

Enemies Surrounding

for we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against its people is so great before the Lord, that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

Angels as agents of judgmentSodom And GomorrahReprobatesGod Sending ProphetsOutcry

And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.

The younger also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-ammi (son of my people); he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.

Relationships To This DayFathers And Daughters

Now Abimelech had not yet come near her; so he said, “Lord, will you kill a people who are righteous and innocent and blameless [regarding Sarah]?

Punishment, Nature OfAbsence Of SexGod KillingGod Will Kill The PeoplesPlea Of Innocence

And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

Salutations

Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.

Caves For BuryingIn Men's PresencePeople Giving Other Things

And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.

The Cave Of MachpelahIn Men's Presence

Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

Drawing Water

And you will be free from your oath to me when you come to my people; and if they will not give her to you, you will be free from your oath.

Not Giving

Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

Death, Means OfAfterlifeAgingDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfGathered To One's PeopleDeathAge

And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

Age, Lived Over 100Age At DeathGathered To One's People

And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

Babies In The WombFavouritismJacob, The PatriarchSubjectionTwo GroupsFreshness Of YouthWombServing PeopleStrong NationsOvercoming Adversity

And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

What Do You Do?

And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

Touching To HarmDeath Penalty For KillingThe King's Orders

Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

Jacob, Life And Character OfServing PeopleSalutationsBlessing Through God's PeopleCursing Israel

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

God, Power OfProcreationMay God Bless!fruitfulness

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.

JourneyParticular Journeys

Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your people, and I will be with you.”

God, Present EverywhereDivine DirectionGod Will Be With YouReturning to their landFamily Firstgrandfathersland

Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.

ReckoningReckoned As Foreigners

Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.

Not FindingIn Men's Presence

And Jacob said to his people, Get stones together; and they did so; and they had a meal there by the stones.

Stones As Monuments

And Jacob made an offering on the mountain, and gave orders to his people to take food: so they had a meal and took their rest that night on the mountain.

Feasting On Special OccasionsFeastingInvitationsEating Before GodStaying Temporarily

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

Warfare, Strategies InTwo GroupsOwning LivestockHalf Of GroupsFear Of IndividualsPossessing Sheep

Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your people, and I will make you prosper,’

God Doing GoodReturning to their landNamed Individuals Who Prayedgrandfathers

So the servants with the offerings went on in front, and he himself took his rest that night in the tents with his people.

Camp, Of IsraelStaying Temporarily

Esau said, “Let me leave some of my people with you.”But he replied, “Why do that? Please indulge me, my lord.”

Going Together

Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

Unified PeopleLiving In The Land

Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.

Unified PeopleBecoming Like PeopleConsentLiving In The LandNecessity Of Circumcision

And every [Canaanite] man who went out of the city gate listened and considered what Hamor and Shechem said; and every male who was a resident of that city was circumcised.

Agreement, Making AgreementsBusiness At The GatewayConsent

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

Trouble, Causes OfNosesSmellsFew PeopleTroubling IndividualsNations Attacking IsraelFamily Problems

And they said, Should people deal with our sister as with a harlot?

Named Sisters

As they set out on their journey, because the people who lived in the cities around them feared God, they did not pursue Jacob's sons.

Divine Protection, Examples OfTerror Of Godterrorism

So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.

And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Death, Means OfOld Age, Attainment OfDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfGathered To One's PeopleDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A FatherFamily Death

Esau took his wives, sons, daughters, and all the people of his household, as well as his herds, all his livestock, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan; he went to a land away from his brother Jacob.

Weights And Measures, DistancesPeople Parting

Let the food be kept in reserve to feed the land for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout Egypt, so the people don't die during the famine."

Frugality

Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

PalacesThronePromotionRelative GreatnessRespect For People

Then he provided him with a chariot as his second-in-command, outfitted with a group of people who shouted out in front of him, "Bow your knees!" And that's how Pharaoh set Joseph over the entire land of Egypt.

ChariotsSalutationsBowing Before JosephAuthority Delegated To People

And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

Requesting Food

And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.

StoringStorehousesThe Act Of OpeningOpening Containers

The people of all the earth came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

Buying and sellingMoney, Uses Of

Then the sons of Israel went to buy grain amid those [other people] who went [as well], for there was famine in the land of Canaan.

Money, Uses Of

And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

BowingGovernorsBowing Before Joseph

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you (your people) up again; and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes [to close them at the time of your death].”

Preparation For BurialLaying On Hands To HealGod Will Be With YouGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egyptefficiency

All of these people, who belonged to Jacob's family, traveled to Egypt. All of Jacob's direct descendants, not including his sons' wives, numbered 66 persons in all.

Sixties

Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.

SeventiesSeventyTwo Sons

And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;

Telling Of Movements

And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.

Children, Good KidsAccording To PeopleFamily Strength

And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

CultivationLiteral PlantingPlanting SeedsSeedsSowing Seedssowing

And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

God, The EternalEternal Possessionfruitfulness

And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

The Youngest ChildPeople With General KnowledgeRules About Young People

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

equipping, physicalSceptreStaffUnity, God's Goal OfProphecies Concerning ChristMessianic PropheciesGathered By God

Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Affection, Kinds OfLove, And The WorldNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenThe Cave Of MachpelahMen's OrdersGathered To One's Peoplegrandfathers

In the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth.

Purchasing

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

BedsDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfLast WordsGathered To One's People

And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.

People Abandoning People

Chariots and horsemen also accompanied Joseph, so there were a lot of people.

ChariotsDealing With Many People

And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan.

MourningMourning DeathBeyond Jordan

All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,

SeventySeventies

And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

Many In Israel

Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

God Doing GoodPeople Multiplying

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

Cruelty, examples ofCommands, in OTKept Alive By MenDeath Of All MalesKilling IsraelitesThe King's Orders

Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.

VisitingGrowing UpForced Labourempathymanhood

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

God, Suffering OfHearingReceptivenessSensitivityTaskmastersGod, All knowingGod Seeing Their AfflictionCries Of Distress To GodGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Sending His SonAfflictions

And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:

God, As RedeemerHuman FavourEmpty HandedFavorbridges

And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.

SpokesmenMen As GodsSpeaking With The Mouth

Moses left and returned to his father-in-law Jethro. Moses told him, "Please let me go and return to my own people in Egypt so I can see whether they're still alive." Jethro told Moses, "Go in peace."

Fathers In LawsReturning to their landLiving OnBrothers in lawgirlfriends

And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

Freedom, Of The WillHardened HeartsGod Hardening PeopleHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPower, HumanOther Miracles

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

ὄχλος 
Ochlos 
Usage: 172

אמּה 
'ummah 
Usage: 3

גּי גּוי 
Gowy 
Usage: 558

לאום לאם 
L@om 
Usage: 35

עדה 
`edah 
Usage: 149

עם 
`am (Aramaic) 
Usage: 14

ערב 
`ereb 
Usage: 134

δῆμος 
Demos 
Usage: 4

ἔθνος 
Ethnos 
Usage: 132

κακῶς 
Kakos 
be sick 9 , be diseased 9 , evil , grievously , sore , miserable , amiss , sick people 9
Usage: 12

λαός 
Laos 
Usage: 137

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