'People' in the Bible

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."

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.

As people migrated westward, they came across a plain in the region of Shinar and settled there.

The LORD said, "Look! They are one people with the same language for all of them, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. Nothing that they have a mind to do will be impossible for them!

I'll bless those who bless you, but I'll curse the one who curses you, and through you all the people of the earth will be blessed."

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.

He recovered all the goods and brought back his nephew Lot, together with his possessions, the women, and the other people.

The king of Sodom told Abram, "Return the people to me, and you take the possessions for yourself."

Any uncircumcised male who does not have the foreskin of his flesh circumcised on the eighth day after his birth is to be eliminated from his people because he has broken my covenant."

I will bless her. Furthermore, I will give you a son from her. I will bless her, so that nations, kings, and people will come from her."

The LORD said, "If I find 50 righteous people within Sodom, I'll forgive the whole place for their sake."

Abraham rose and bowed before the Hittites, the people of the land,

"No, sir. Listen to me! I'll give you the field, and I'll give you the cave that's in it. I give it to you publicly, in the sight of my people. Bury your dead."

Abraham bowed before the people of the land

and then addressed Ephron so all the people of the land could hear him: "Please listen to me! I'm willing to pay the price of the field. Accept it from me, so I may bury my dead there."

"Two nations are in your womb," the LORD responded, "and two separate people will emerge. One people will be the stronger, and the older one will serve the younger."

"What have you done to us?" Abimelech asked. "Any minute now, one of the people could have had sex with your wife and you would have caused all of us to be guilty."

May people serve and bow before you; may you be master over your brothers; may your mother's sons bow before you; may anyone who curses you be cursed; and may anyone who blesses you be blessed."

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful so that your descendants become a whole group of people.

Jacob journeyed on and reached the territory that belonged to the people who lived in the east.

Feeling mounting terror and distress, Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, doing the same with the flocks, the cattle, and the camels.

When Esau eventually looked around, he saw the women and the children. "Who are these people with you?" he asked.

Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me."

Then we'll give our daughters to you and take your daughters for ourselves, live among you, and be as a united people.

"However," they added, "only on this condition will the men consent to live with us and be united as a single people with us: every male among us will have to be circumcised just as they are.

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.

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."

So you are to be appointed in charge over my palace, and all of my people are to do whatever you command them to do. Only the throne will have greater authority than you."

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.

Eventually, the land of Egypt began to feel the effects of the famine, so the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. "Go see Joseph," Pharaoh announced to all the Egyptians, "and do whatever he tells you to do."

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.

Then Joseph transported the people to cities from one end of Egypt to the other.

After this, Joseph addressed the people. "Pay attention," he said. "I've bought you and your land for Pharaoh today, in exchange for seed for you. Now go sow the land.

He told me, "Pay attention! I'm going to make you fruitful and numerous. I'm going to build you into a vast nation of people and then I'll give this land to your descendants for an eternal possession.'

"Dan will judge his people as one of Israel's tribes.

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

As far as you're concerned, you were planning evil against me, but God intended it for good, planning to bring about the present result so that many people would be preserved alive.