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H5971Aעַםam
peoplePart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
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Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to the help of Lachish; and Joshua overcame him and his people, putting all of them to death.
עַמּ֔וֹ (עַמּ֔) a.M “people”
My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart.
הָעָ֑ם (עָ֑ם) 'Am “people”
Then the children of Joseph said to Joshua, Why have you given me only one part and one stretch of land for my heritage? For through the blessing given to me by the Lord up to now, I am a great people.
עַם־ 'am- “[am] a people”
Then Joshua said to them, If you are such a great people, go up into the woodlands, clearing a place there for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, if the hill-country of Ephraim is not wide enough for you.
עַם־ 'am- “[are] a people”
Then Joshua said to the children of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, You are a great people, and have great power: you are not to have one property only,
עַם־ 'am- “[are] a people”
And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.
הָעָ֗ם (עָ֗ם) 'Am “people”
Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;
הָעָם֙ (עָם֙) 'Am “people”
For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:
הָֽעַמִּ֔ים (עַמִּ֔ים) 'a.Mim “peoples”
And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.
הָעַמִּ֗ים (עַמִּ֗ים) 'a.Mim “peoples”
And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.
הָעָ֗ם (עָ֗ם) 'Am “people”
And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.
הָעָ֖ם (עָ֖ם) 'Am “people”
And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.
הָעָ֗ם (עָ֗ם) 'Am “people”
And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.
הָעָ֖ם (עָ֖ם) 'Am “people”
So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.
לָעָ֖ם (עָ֖ם) 'Am “people”
And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
הָעָ֗ם (עָ֗ם) 'Am “people”
Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.
הָעָ֔ם (עָ֔ם) 'Am “people”
Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;
הָעָֽם׃ (עָֽם) 'Am “people”
Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.
הָעָ֛ם (עָ֛ם) 'Am “people”
And Joshua let the people go away, and the children of Israel went, every man to his heritage, to take the land for themselves.
הָעָ֑ם (עָ֑ם) 'Am “people”
And the people were true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the responsible men who were still living after the death of Joshua, and had seen all the great work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.
הָעָם֙ (עָם֙) 'Am “people”
And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.
הָֽעַמִּים֙ (עַמִּים֙) 'a.Mim “peoples”
And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering.
הָעָ֔ם (עָ֔ם) 'Am “people”
Because of the flowing hair of the fighters in Israel, because the people gave themselves freely, give praise to the Lord.
עָ֑ם 'Am “a people”
Come, you rulers of Israel, you who gave yourselves freely among the people: give praise to the Lord.
בָּעָ֑ם (עָ֑ם) 'Am “people”
Give ear to the women laughing by the water-springs; there they will give again the story of the upright acts of the Lord, all the upright acts of his arm in Israel.
עַם־ 'am- “[the] people of”