1934 occurrences

'People' in the Bible

And as people migrated from the east they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Verse ConceptsFacing EastLiving In The Land

And Yahweh said, "Behold, {they are one people with one language}, and {this is only the beginning of what they will do}. So now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.

Verse ConceptsImagination, Evil SchemingDivine RestraintsUnified PeoplePossibilities For PeopleActivity BegunPossible For PeopleVisualizationLanguageWorking TogetherSuccess And Hard WorkTogethernesstechnologyaccomplishmentimaginationimpossible

And he brought back all the possessions. And he also brought back Lot, his {relative}, and his possessions, and the women and the people as well.

Verse ConceptsRestoring ThingsTaking Other People

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, but the possessions take for yourself."

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Characteristics OfSlavery, In Ot

And [as for any] uncircumcised male who has not circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsBreaking The Covenant

Before they laid down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people {to the last man}, surrounded the house.

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, "my Lord, will you even kill a righteous people?"

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfAbsence Of SexGod KillingGod Will Kill The PeoplesPlea Of Innocence

And Abraham rose up and bowed to the people of the land, to the Hittites.

Verse ConceptsSalutations

"No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field and the cave which [is] in it, I [also] give it to you in the sight of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

Verse ConceptsCaves For BuryingIn Men's PresencePeople Giving Other Things

And Abraham bowed before the people of the land.

And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, "{If only you will hear me}--I give the price of the field. Take [it] from me that I may bury my dead there."

Verse ConceptsThe Cave Of MachpelahIn Men's Presence

And Abraham passed away and died in a good old age, old and full of years. And he was gathered to his people.

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

Now these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. And he passed away and died, and was gathered to his people.

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

And Yahweh said to her, "Two nations [are] in your womb, and two peoples {from birth} shall be divided. And {one people shall be stronger than the other}. And [the] elder shall serve [the] younger."

Verse ConceptsBabies In The WombFavouritismJacob, The PatriarchSubjectionTwo GroupsFreshness Of YouthWombServing PeopleStrong NationsOvercoming Adversity

And Abimelech said, "What [is] this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with your wife! Then you would have brought guilt upon us!"

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

Then Abimelech instructed all the people, saying, "The [one who] touches this man or his wife shall certainly die."

Verse ConceptsTouching To HarmDeath Penalty For KillingThe King's Orders

Then Jacob was very frightened and distressed. So he divided the people, flocks, cattle, and camels that [were] with him into two companies.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Strategies InTwo GroupsOwning LivestockHalf Of GroupsFear Of IndividualsPossessing Sheep

And Esau said, "Let me leave some of my people with you." But he said, "{What need is there}? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord."

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

And Jacob came to Luz which [was] in the land of Canaan (that [is] Bethel), he and all the people that [were] with him.

And Isaac passed away and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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

You shall be over my house, and to your word all my people shall submit. Only [with respect to] the throne will I be greater than you."

Verse ConceptsPalacesThronePromotionRelative GreatnessRespect For People

And when all the land of Egypt was hungry the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. And Pharaoh said to all the land of Egypt, "Go to Joseph; what he says to you, you must do."

Verse ConceptsRequesting Food

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.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses Of

Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He [was] the one who sold [food] to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

Verse ConceptsBowingGovernorsBowing Before Joseph

As for the people, he transferred them to the cities, from one end of the territory of Egypt to the other.

And Joseph said to the people, "Look, I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Here [is] seed for you so you can sow the land.

Verse ConceptsCultivationLiteral PlantingPlanting SeedsSeedsSowing Seedssowing

But his father refused and said, "I know, my son; I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but his younger brother shall be greater than him, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildPeople With General KnowledgeRules About Young People

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

Then he instructed them and said to them, "I am [about to be] gathered to my people. Bury me among my ancestors in the cave that [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

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

When Jacob finished instructing his sons he drew his feet up to the bed. Then he took his last breath and was gathered to his people.

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

And he said to his people, "Look, the people of the {Israelites} [are] greater and more numerous than us.

Verse ConceptsMany In Israel

And God did the midwives good, and the [Israelite] people became many and were very numerous.

Verse ConceptsGod Doing GoodPeople Multiplying

And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born you will throw into the Nile, and every daughter you will let live."

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

And Yahweh said, "Surely I have seen the misery of my people who [are] in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings.

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

And I will give this people favor in the eyes of [the] Egyptians, {and then} when you go, you will not go empty-handed.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerHuman FavourEmpty HandedFavorbridges

And he will speak for you to the people, {and then} he will be to you as a mouth, and you will be to him as a god.

Verse ConceptsSpokesmenMen As GodsSpeaking With The Mouth

And Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go to return to Egypt, see all of the wonders that I have put in your hand, and do them before Pharaoh, and I myself will harden his heart, and he will not release the people.

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

And Aaron spoke all the words that Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and he did the signs before the eyes of the people.

Verse ConceptsSigns From GodTelling Of God

And the people believed when they heard that Yahweh had attended to the {Israelites} and that he had seen their misery, and they knelt down and they worshiped.

Verse ConceptsBowingAttitudes, in prayerWorship, Reasons ForBowing Heads Before GodBelieving In GodGod Paid Attention To ThemOthers Believing In GodWorshipping God

And afterward, Moses and Aaron went, and they said to Pharaoh, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'Release my people so that they may hold a festival for me in the desert.'"

Verse ConceptsFeastsAaron, Moses SpokespersonA Feast In The WildernessFestivals Observed

And the king of Egypt said, "Why, Moses and Aaron, do you take the people from their work? Go to your {forced labor}!"

Verse ConceptsDoing One's Workdistractions

And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land [are] now many, and you want to stop them from their {forced labor}."

Verse ConceptsMany In Israel

And on that day Pharaoh commanded the slave drivers over the people and his foremen, saying,

Verse ConceptsOverseersTaskmasters

"You must no longer give straw to the people to make the bricks like {before}. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types of

And the slave drivers of the people and their foremen went out, and they spoke to the people, saying, "Thus says Pharaoh, 'I [am] not giving you straw.

Verse ConceptsHeraldTaskmasters

And the people spread out in all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for the straw.

Verse ConceptsSeeking For Concrete Things

Straw [is] not being given to your servants, but [they are] saying to us, 'Make bricks!' and, look, your servants [are] being beaten, but it is the fault of your people."

Verse ConceptsWronging Other People

And Moses returned to Yahweh and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble to this people? Why ever did you send me?

Verse ConceptsGod Sending ProphetsGod TroublingWhy Does God Do This?

And from the time I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble to this people, and you have certainly not delivered your people."

Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing Evil

And I will take you {as my people}, and I will be {your God}, and you will know that I [am] Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the {forced labor} of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsAssurance, basis ofGod, The LordRelationshipsUnity, Of God's PeopleRemoving BurdensYou Will Know I Am The LordI Will Be Their GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

And Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will put my hand into Egypt and bring out my divisions, my people, the {Israelites}, from the land of Egypt with great punishments.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandGod's Hands In OppositionEarthly ArmiesGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart [is] {insensitive}; he refuses to release the people.

Verse ConceptsCorrupted ConsciencesObstinate Individuals

And you must say to him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Release my people that they may serve me in the desert, and, look, you have not listened until now."

Verse ConceptsA Feast In The WildernessWorshipping God

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Release my people so that they may serve me."

Verse ConceptsPreaching, Content OfServanthood, And Worship Of GodWorshipping God

And the Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will go up and come into your house and into your {bedroom} and onto your bed and into the house of your servants and among your people and into your ovens and into your kneading troughs.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsBakingPalacesBedsMany CreaturesHouses Under AttackPots For Cooking And EatingPrivate Rooms

And the frogs will go up against you and against your people and against all of your servants.'"

And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray to Yahweh, and let him remove the frogs from me and from my people, and let me release the people so that they can sacrifice to Yahweh."

Verse ConceptsKings SummoningPray For UsPraying For SinnersTaking Animals

And Moses said to Pharaoh, "{I leave to you the honor} over me. When shall I pray for you and for your servants and for your people to cut off the frogs from you and from your houses? They will be left only in the Nile."

Verse ConceptsWhen?

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Start early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Look, [he is] going out to the water, and you must say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Release my people so that they may serve me."

Verse ConceptsConfrontationMorningRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyWorshipping God

But if you are not [about to] release my people, look, I [am about] to send out flies among you and among your servants and among your people and in your houses; and the houses of Egypt will fill up with the flies and also the ground that they are on.

Verse ConceptsFliesbugs

But on that day I will distinguish the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, by there not being flies there, so that you will know that I [am] Yahweh in the midst of the land.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsFliesGod DifferentiatingI Am The Lord

And I will put a distinction between my people and your people; this sign will be tomorrow.'"

Verse ConceptsNationalismSeparation From Evil PeopleGod's Action Tomorrowtomorrowdivision

And Moses said, "Look, I [am] going out from you, and I will pray to Yahweh so that the flies depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only let not Pharaoh again deceive [us] by not releasing the people to sacrifice to Yahweh."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitGod's Action TomorrowThose Who Deceived

And Yahweh did according to the word of Moses and removed the flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one was left.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of Moses And AaronFliesResidueTaking AnimalsGod Answered Prayerbugs

And Pharaoh made his heart {insensitive} also this time, and he did not release the people.

Verse ConceptsObstinate Individuals

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, "Release my people so that they may serve me."

Verse ConceptsWorshipping GodProblem People

And Pharaoh sent [to check], and {it turned out} not even one from the livestock of Israel had died, but Pharaoh's heart was {insensitive}, and he did not release the people.

Verse ConceptsHardness Of HeartNot DyingObstinate Individuals

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Start early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Look, [he is] going out to the water, and you must say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, "Release my people so that they may serve me.

Verse ConceptsMorningThose Who Rose EarlyWorshipping GodEarly Rising

For at this time I [am] sending all of my plagues {to you personally} and among your servants and among your people so that you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Verse ConceptsNo One Is Like GodKnowing God's Character

For now I could have stretched out my hand, and I could have struck you and your people with the plague, and you would have perished from the earth.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Will Kill The Peoples

Still you [are] behaving haughtily to my people by not releasing them.

Verse ConceptsAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingSeeking Honour

And Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh [is] the righteous [one], and I and my people [are] the wicked [ones].

Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentanceGuilty ConsciencesGod, Righteousness OfPunishment, By GodAcknowledge, SinKings SummoningWe Have Sinned

And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, 'Until when will you refuse to submit before me? Release my people so that they may serve me.

Verse ConceptsHumilityBefore People ActWorshipping GodHumbling Oneself

But if you [are] refusing to release my people, look, I [am] about to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

Verse ConceptsInsectsLocustsGod's Action Tomorrow

Speak in the ears of the people, and let them ask, a man from his neighbor and a woman from her neighbor, [for] objects of silver and objects of gold."

Verse ConceptsBorrowing, Examples OfGold

And Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of Egypt. Also the man Moses [was] very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh and in the eyes of the people.

Verse ConceptsHuman Favour

And all of these your servants will come down to me and bow to me, saying, 'Go out, you and all the people who [are] at your feet.' And afterward I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh {in great anger}.

Verse ConceptsBowingAnger, HumanHeatAnger, Justified ExamplesAnger Of Man, CauseLeaving EgyptNamed People Angry With Others

you will say, 'It [is] a Passover sacrifice for Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the {Israelites} in Egypt when he struck Egypt; and he delivered our houses.'" And the people knelt down and they worshiped.

Verse ConceptsBowingProperty, HousesPassing OverReverence, And ObedienceBowing Heads Before GodGod KillingRegulations For PassoverWorshipping GodGod Killed The Peoples

And he called Moses and Aaron [at] night, and he said, "Get up, go out from the midst of my people, both you as well as the {Israelites}, and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said.

Verse ConceptsDuring One NightKings SummoningWorship God!

And [the] Egyptians urged the people [in order] to hurry their release from the land, because they said, "All of us [will] die!"

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceHurrying Others On

And the people lifted up their dough before it had yeast; their kneading troughs [were] wrapped up in their cloaks on their shoulder.

Verse ConceptsDoughShouldersJoining ThingsKneading DoughPots For Cooking And Eating

And Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of [the] Egyptians, and they granted [their] requests, and they plundered [the] Egyptians.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of WarFavorlent

And Moses said to the people, "Remember this day when you went out from Egypt, from a house of slaves, because with strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from here, and [food with] yeast will not be eaten.

Verse ConceptsCelebrationsHand Of GodHistoryYeastStrength Of GodLeaving EgyptGroups Of Slavesslavery

And when Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them the way of the land of the Philistines, though it [was] nearer, because God said, "Lest the people change their mind when they see war and return to Egypt."

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfPeople Changing Their MindsReturning to the oldPrinciples Of WarMind BattlesStress And Hard Times

So God led the people around [by] the way of the desert [to] the {Red Sea}, and the {Israelites} went up in battle array from the land of Egypt.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalComing To The Red SeaGod Led Them Through The WildernessEarthly Armies

The column of cloud by day and the column of fire [by] night did not depart from before the people.

Verse ConceptsObelisksDuring The Day

And it was told to the king of Egypt that the people fled, and the heart of Pharaoh was changed and [that of] his servants toward the people, and they said, "What [is] this we have done, that we have released Israel from serving us!"

Verse ConceptsPeople Changing Their MindsIsrael FleeingTelling Of Movements

And he harnessed his chariot and took with him his people.

Verse ConceptsPreparing To Travel

And Moses said to the people, "You must not be afraid. Stand [still] and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will accomplish for you today, because [the] Egyptians whom you see today you will see never again.

Verse ConceptsBeing AfraidDeliverance, Means OfStillnessNot Seeing PeopleDo Not Fear For God Will Helpfearless

Terror and dread fell on them; at the greatness of your arm they became silent like the stone, until your people passed by, Yahweh, until [the] people whom you bought passed by.

Verse ConceptsMarketsPassing ThroughPurchasingTypes Of ChristArm Of GodMotionlessnessStaying PutPeople As Rocksgreatnessterrorism

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, I am going to rain down for you bread from the heavens, and the people will go out and gather enough for the day on its day; in that way I will test them: Will they go according to my law or not?

Verse ConceptsProving, Through TestingResentment, Against GodTestingDaily DutyOnce A Day

But they did not listen to Moses. Some people left [some] of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.

Verse ConceptsInsectsSmellsMaggotsFood DecayingNamed People Angry With Othersworms

And on the seventh day [some] of the people went out to gather, and they did not find [any].

Verse ConceptsGathering FoodNot Finding

And the people rested on the seventh day.

Verse ConceptsSabbaths Instituted

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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