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'People' in the Bible

"Oh, you sinful nation! You people burdened down by iniquity! You offspring of those who keep practicing what is evil! You corrupt children! "They've abandoned the LORD; they've despised the Holy One of Israel; in their estrangement, they've walked away from me.

Corruption, Of HumanityAbandonmentForsaking God, Illustrated ByImpenitence, Warnings AgainstNationalismRejection Of GodEvildoersGod's People Sinningcorruption

"Listen to what the LORD says, you rulers of Sodom, and pay attention to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Revelation, Responses ToWord Of God

Many groups of people will come, commenting, "Come! Let's go up to the Temple of the God of Jacob, that they may teach us his ways. Then let's walk in his paths." "Instruction will proceed from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

ClimbingKnowing God's WaysGod's WaysParticipation, In ChristPilgrimageRevival, CorporateWalkingWord Of GodNames And Titles For The ChurchPaths Of RighteousnessGod As Our TeacherGoing Up MountainsGod TeachingThe Law Given To IsraelMillenial SacrificesPaths

For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with practices learned from the East and they are fortune-tellers like the Philistines. They cut deals with foreigners.

Abandoning FriendsAbandonmentDivination, Practiced ByJacob, The PatriarchPagansSyncretismOut Of The EastRelations With ForeignersAliens

People will oppress one another It will be man against man and neighbor against neighbor. The young will be disrespectful to the old, and the worthless to the honorable.

Old Age, Attitudes ToBad ChildrenDisrespect For Old AgeDiscourtesyOppressorsThe Elderly

"But at that time, he'll protest! He'll say, "I won't be your healer. I have neither food nor clothing in my house! You're not going to make me a leader of the people!'

Outer GarmentsNo King

The LORD is taking his place to argue his case; he's standing up to judge the people.

God, As Judge

The LORD will go to court to oppose the elders and princes of his people: "You're the ones who have been devouring the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your own houses!

PlunderingWicked RulersVineyardMetaphorical VineyardsRulers, Wicked

How dare you crush my people as you grind down the face of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies.

CrushingGrindingUnkindnessPoor, The Wicked Response ToGrinding PeopleNot Helping The Poorcrushes

Therefore my people go into exile because they lack understanding; my honored men go hungry, and the crowd is parched with thirst.

Dangers Of IgnorancePoverty, SpiritualSuffering, Causes OfPeople Exiled

Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against his people, so he stretched out his hands against them and afflicted them. The mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse in the middle of the streets. Throughout all of this, his anger has not turned away, and his hands are still stretched out to attack.

dirtRoadsGod's HandMountains QuakingNo BurialsGod's Hands Stretched Out

"Go!" he responded. "Tell this people: ""Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'

Gospel, Responses ToSecrecyRejection Of God's CallReprobatesBeing Without Understanding

Dull the mind of this people, deafen their ears, and blind their eyes. By doing so, they won't see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their minds, turn back, and be healed."

ConvincingHardened HeartsHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedRepentance, Importance OfSpiritual DeafnessShutting SecurelyDefective VisionBeing Without UnderstandingFeelingNo HealingUnhearing

Then I asked, "For how long, LORD?" He replied: "Until cities lie waste, without inhabitants, and houses without people; and the land becomes utterly desolate.

Destruction Of CitiesEmpty Cities

Until the LORD removes people far away, and there are many empty places in the middle of the land.

Weights And Measures, DistancesExile In Prospect

Even though a tenth of its people remain in it, it will once again be burned, like a terebinth or an oak tree, the stump of which, though the tree has been felled, still contains holy seed."

RemnantNames And Titles For The ChristianTreesStumps Of A TreeA Tenth Of People

When it was reported to the house of David, "Aram has joined forces with Ephraim!" the heart of the people of Ahaz trembled like forest trees in a windstorm.

ForestsdoubtersPessimismAllegiancesGroups Trembling

Because Aram's head is Damascus, and Rezin is its king, within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

The Prophecy Towards DamascusPeople Passing Away50 To 70 YearsNorthern Kingdom Of Israelsyriadamascus

"The LORD will bring to you, to your people, and to your ancestor's house such a time as has never been since Ephraim broke away from Judah the king of Assyria will come.

election, responsibilities ofUnique EventsOther Times

"People will come there armed with bows and arrows, because the entire land will be nothing but briers and thorns.

Bow And Arrows, Uses Of

"Because this people have rejected the gently-flowing waters of Shiloah, and because they keep rejoicing in Rezin and Remaliah's son,

Rejection Of GodTrust, Lack Of

For this is what the LORD spoke to me, as his forceful hand was resting on me, and as he was warning me not to live the way this people were living:

Battlesdiscipline, divineHand Of GodEvil AssociationsNot Imitating EvilConspiracypressure

"Don't call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy, and don't fear what they fear, or live in terror.

BattlesFalse ConfidenceConspiraciesAllegiancesFearlessnessConspiracy

"So when they advise you, "Ask the mediums your questions, and quiz the spiritists who chirp and mutter,' shouldn't a people instead be consulting their God and not the dead on behalf of those who are living

AstrologyFamiliar SpiritsSpiritsSpiritismNecromancyDivinationFortunetellingAvoid SpiritismOccultismguidancewitchespsychicsOccult Being Powerless Before God

and all of the people were evil Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria saying proudly with arrogant hearts:

False ConfidenceProud People

"But the people have not returned to rely on him who struck them, nor have they sought the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

PrayerlessnessGod Is TruthfulAfflictions Of The WickedNot Returning To GodGod Beating PeopleNot Seeking God

For those who guide this people have been leading them astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.

Guidance, Need For God'sBeing MisleadMisleading ChildrenLeaders

From the wrath of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies the land has been scorched, and the people have become like fuel for the fire; no one will spare his neighbor.

Wicked Described AsFire Of God's AngerNot Sparingwrath

to deprive the needy of justice and to rob the poor of my people of their rights, so that widows may become their spoil and so that they may plunder orphans!

FraudThe NeedyPlunderingHuntingOppression, Nature OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoor, Oppression OfExtortionNo JusticeNot Helping WidowsHelping The Pooroppression

I'm sending my fury against a godless nation, and I'll command him against the people with whom I'm angry to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.

PlunderingGodlessnessNationalismTrampling People

My hand has found, as if in a nest, the wealth of the people; and as one gathers eggs that have been abandoned, so I have gathered all the inhabitants of the earth. Nothing moved a wing, opened its mouth, or chirped.'

NestsWingsWings Of BirdsBird Soundsrelentless

For even if your people of Israel number as many as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Overwhelming, righteous destruction is decreed,

God, Righteousness OfRemnantGod Doing RightDoing RightEnd Of ActionsMany In IsraelSand And Gravel

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies says: "My people, you who live in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrians, of the rod that beats you, who lift up their club against you as the Egyptians did.

Special Revelation

At that time, the LORD will reach out his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people, from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Day of the LORDHand Of GodIslandsRemnantRestoring NationsThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaThe Prophecy Towards EgyptDoing Things TwiceSurvivors FavouredRecovery

He will raise a banner for the nations and will assemble the dispersed of Israel; he will gather the scattered people of Judah from the corners of the earth.

dispersion, theRemnantOutcastsFour CornersFlagsFour Sides

But they will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west, and they will plunder the people to the east. They'll lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

The Prophecy Towards AmmonThe Prophecy Towards Edom

The LORD will totally destroy the gulf of the Sea of Egypt. He will sweep his hand over the Euphrates River with a violent wind, breaking it up into seven streams, and making a way for people to cross on foot.

drynessRivers And StreamsWindThe Prophecy Towards EgyptSeven ThingsGod Drying Things UpOther References To The Red SeaRiver Euphrates

And there will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people out of Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.

HighwayRoadsThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaMaking RoadsSurvivors FavouredHighways

I'll make people scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than gold from Ophir.

GoldYouthThings Like GoldShortage Other Than FoodMan's Sinful Nature

They will be like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with no one to gather them, each will turn to his own people, and each will flee to his own land.

HuntingWatchfulness, DivineScattered Like SheepDeer Etc.Deerwandering

you will not be united with them in burial, for you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. People will never mention the descendants of those who practice evil again!

Bad ParentsParents SinSins Of The Fathers

How will they answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in it the afflicted among his people will find refuge."

envoyAnswering People

Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards, in the vineyards people will sing no songs, and no cheers are raised. No vintner treads out wine in the presses, because I've put an end to the shouting.

AlcoholWinepressDestroying VineyardsVintageCessationTreading GrapesLack Of Rejoicing

which sends envoys by the sea, in papyrus boats over the water! Go, swift messengers, to a tall, smooth-skinned nation, to a people feared far and wide, a nation that metes out punishment and oppresses, whose land the rivers divide.

BabylonenvoyPapyrusDivision Of WatersTall PeopleSea TravelBoatsWaters DividingFearing Other People

At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of the Heavenly Armies from a tall and smooth-skinned people, from a people feared far and wide, a nation that metes out punishment and oppresses, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place that bears the name of the LORD.

GiftsGiving To GodDivision Of WatersTall PeopleWaters DividingFearing Other PeopleAmerica

The LORD of the Heavenly Armies has blessed them, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance."

BlessedNames And Titles For The ChurchBlessings From God

O my downtrodden people, my wall! I'll tell you what I have heard from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel."

Threshing Floor

Therefore I said: "Look away from me; and let me weep bitter tears; don't try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people."

Being Earnest For IsraelSorrowNo Comfort

"Look at the land of the Chaldeans! This is a people that no longer exist; Assyria destined her for desert creatures. They raised up her siege towers, they stripped her fortresses bare and turned her into a ruin.

RuinsThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaThe Prophecy Towards Babylon

It will be the same for the lay people as for priests, the same for servants as for their masters, for female servants as for their mistresses, for buyers as for sellers, for lenders as for borrowers, and for creditors as for debtors.

Priests, Institution In Ot TimesServants Of PeopleLike People In CharacterLending And Borrowingservanthoodmistresspriests

Therefore the curse keeps on consuming, and its inhabitants are declared guilty. Furthermore, the inhabitants of earth are ablaze, and few people are left.

Few PeopleGod CursingGuiltThe Earth

From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise: "Glory to the Righteous One!' "But I say, "I am pining away, I'm pining away. How terrible things are for me! For treacherous people betray treacherous people are betraying with treachery!'"

Handing Over PeopleGood Things From Far Awaytraitors

At that time, people will sing this song in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; God crafts victory, its walls and ramparts.

Day of the LORDSongsGod's Salvation Made KnownWallsSalvation, Illustrations OfCity Of GodFigurative Walls

"LORD, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. And let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame yes, let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them!

God, Zeal OfJealousyHand Of GodShameStoringZealGod's HandBurning PeopleNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsShame Will Come

Come, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.

God's IndignationA Short TimeShutting DoorsHiding From GodShort Time For ActionSpeed Of God's AngerPraying Behind Closed Doors

When its branches are dry, they are broken off, and women come and kindle fires with them, since this is a people who show no consideration. That is why the One who made them shows them no compassion; the One who created them shows them no mercy.

SympathyDullnessFirewoodGod Without Mercy

At that time, the LORD will winnow grain from the Euphrates River channel to the Wadi of Egypt, and you will be gathered in one by one, O people of Israel.

ThreshingGathering IsraelAs Far As The Euphrates

How terrible it will be for that arrogant garland the drunks of Ephraim! How terrible it will be for that fading flower of his glorious beauty, which sits on the heads of people bloated with food, of people overcome with wine!

FlowersAlcoholWineBeauty, Temporal Nature OfNo BeautyThe Proud Will Be AbasedWoe To Israel And JerusalemWorseNorthern Kingdom Of Israeldrunkards

And that fading flower, his glorious beauty, which sits on the heads of people bloated with food, will be like an early fig before summer whenever someone sees it, he swallows it as soon as it's in his hand.

Fig treeHarvestNo BeautyWorse

At that time, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies will become a glorious crown, a beautiful diadem for the remnant of his people,

RemnantBeauty Of GodChrist, Names ForCommerceSurvivors FavouredCrowns For God's PeopleSpiritual crowns

These people also stagger from wine and reel from strong drink. Priests and prophets stagger from strong drink; they're drunk from wine; they reel from strong drink, waver when seeing visions, and stumble when rendering decisions.

Alcoholdrinking, abstention fromDrunkenness, Figurative OfDebaucheryLeaders, SpiritualStumblingDrunkenness, ResultsStaggeringStrong DrinkWicked ProphetsDrunkennessMaking DecisionsDecision Makingbeer

Very well, then, through the mouths of foreigners and foreign languages the LORD will speak to this people

God's Activity In The NationsForeignersUnknown LanguagesSpeech ImpedimentsLanguagespeaking

"Therefore hear the message from the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people that are in Jerusalem.

"And this entire vision has become for you like the words of a sealed book. When people give it to someone who can read, and say, "Read this, please,' he answers, "I cannot, because it is sealed.'

ScrollsDullnessSealing The MessageReading The Bible

Therefore, watch out! "As for me, I will once again do amazing things with this people, wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the insights of their discerning men will stay hidden."

Folly, Examples OfIntelligencePhilosophyReasonShrewdnessThoughtWisdom, Source Of HumanInventionsFalse WisdomWorldly WisdomDiscernment

The humble will again experience joy in the LORD, and the poorest people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

IncreaseHumilityMeeknessCharacter Of SaintsRejoicingBeing Humblehumble

There is only loathsome destruction through a people that cannot benefit them, who bring neither help nor profit, but only shame and disgrace."

For they are a rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to hear the LORD's instruction.

Children, attitudes towardsSin, Nature OfBible, Names OfRefusing To HearLying And Deceitrebellion

Indeed, you people who live in Zion and in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious the LORD will be to you at the sound of your cry! As soon as he hears it, he will answer you.

Answered PromisesGod Will AnswerNot Mourning

Moreover, the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the sun's light will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

AstronomyLight, NaturalMoonSevenSevenfoldGod HealsMillennial Kingdom, Christ Restores IsraelSunSunshineThe Moonscars

You will have songs as on nights when people celebrate a holy festival, and gladness of heart, as when they set out with flutes to go to the LORD's mountain, to the Rock of Israel.

Flutesequipping, physicalClimbingGod, The RockJoy, Of IsraelNightPilgrimageCelebration

Yet he is also wise and can bring disaster; he does not take back his words, but will rise up against the house of those who practice evil and against anyone who assists people who work iniquity.

evil, warnings againstGod, Wisdom OfEvildoersGod ArisingGod Changing His Mind

Turn back to him, yes to him whom your people have so greatly betrayed, you people of Israel.

Rebellion Against God, Shown InReturning To GodHurt And Betrayal

The hearts of reckless people will understand sound judgment, and the tongues of those who stammer will be ready to speak clearly.

InsanityTongueSpeech ImpedimentsRash People

People will no longer call a fool noble, nor will a bad person be declared honorable.

Counted As Foolsheroes

For fools utter contempt, and their minds plot wrong things: practicing ungodliness, spreading lies about the LORD, leaving the pangs of hungry people unsatisfied, and depriving thirsty people of drink.

Fools, Characteristics OfMind, The HumanMorality, And CreationSin, Nature OfHypocrites, Description OfMischiefBeing MisleadStingy PeopleErrorHypocrisy

Furthermore, the crimes of bad people are evil; and they devise wicked schemes, destroying the poor with lying words, even when needy people plead a just cause.

Dishonesty, Kinds OfEvil PlansTrapEvil DevicesPlottinginstruments

For people will be beating their breasts in mourning over the pleasant fields, over the fruitful vines,

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and over the land of my people overgrown with thorns and briers yes, over all the houses of merriment and over this city of revelry.

"How terrible it will be for you, destroyer, you who have not been destroyed yourself! And how terrible it will be for you, traitor, one whom people have not betrayed! When you have sunk so low in destroying others, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you."

BetrayalTreacheryWoeThe DestroyerWoe To The WickedUnfaithfulfinishingtraitors

Your plunder is gathered as when grasshoppers gather; just like locusts pounce, people have pounced on it.

PlunderingHarvestCaterpillarsLocusts

No longer will you see those arrogant people, those people with their obscure speech you cannot comprehend, stammering in a language you cannot understand.

Not Understanding LanguageUnknown LanguagesSpeech Impediments

And no one living there will say, "I am ill.' The people living there will have their sins forgiven."

Sin, Deliverance From GodHealth PromisedGod Will ForgiveBenefits Of HeavenSicknessIllnessHealth And Healing

For my sword will be seen in the heavens. Look! It descends in judgment on Edom, on the people I have doomed to destruction.

More Than EnoughGod's Sword

then the lame will leap like deer, and the tongues of speechless people will sing for joy. Yes, waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams will run through the desert;

LeapingCripplesLamenessTonguePeople JumpingRunning Water From GodDumbnessRenewedDumbDeserts Used FigurativelyDeer Etc.Deerjumping

"A highway will be there yes, there and people will call it "The Holy Way'. As for unclean people, they will not journey on it, but it will be for whomever is traveling on that Way not even fools will get lost.

Folly, Effects OfGod's WaysLife, Of FaithHighwayPurity, Nature OfWay, TheThe Work Of FoolsMaking RoadsWalking In God's WayHolinessErrorHighwaysFoolsMissing SomeoneBeing LostThe Environmentbridgesvacation

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah replied to him, "Please speak with your servants with us in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew where the people sitting on the wall can hear."

Languages

But the people remained silent and didn't respond to him with so much as a single word, because the king had commanded, "Don't answer him."

ResponseIndividuals Being SilentOthers Not Answering

Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my ancestors save them the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden, who were in Tel-assar?

False ReligionEdenNo Help In Other Gods

Grass withers and flowers fade away when the LORD's breath blows on them; surely the people are like grass.

Breath Of LifeFlowersThe Holy Spirit In CreationGrass WitheredMere Men

"Be silent before me, you coastlands, and let the people renew their strength! Let them come forward, then let them speak together let's draw near for a ruling.

Spiritual RenewalIslandsGod Giving StrengthGod Gives StrengthPay Attention To God!Renewal

all so that people may see and recognize, perceive, consider, and comprehend at the same time, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and that the Holy One of Israel has created it."

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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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