Genesis 11:6
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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Revelation 21:3
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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עַם
ʻam · am
1,834 times translated as this KJV form1,857 total Strong's occurrences
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
Strong's KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 11:6Strong's last: Malachi 2:9
Open full H5971 profile →λαός
laós · lah-os'
139 times translated as this KJV form149 total Strong's occurrences
a people (in general; thus differing from G1218, which denotes one's own populace)
Strong's KJV usage: :--people.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 1:21Strong's last: Revelation 21:3
Open full G2992 profile →ὄχλος
óchlos · okh'los
83 times translated as this KJV form186 total Strong's occurrences
a throng (as borne along); by implication, the rabble; by extension, a class of people; figuratively, a riot
Strong's KJV usage: :--company, multitude, number (of people), people, press.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 4:25Strong's last: Revelation 19:1
Open full G3793 profile →לְאֹם
lᵉʼôm · leh-ome'
24 times translated as this KJV form35 total Strong's occurrences
a community
Strong's KJV usage: nation, people.
Strong's first: Genesis 25:23Strong's last: Habakkuk 2:13
Open full H3816 profile →עַם
ʻam · am
15 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: people.
Strong's first: Ezra 5:12Strong's last: Daniel 7:27
Open full H5972 profile →גּוֹי
gôwy · go'-ee
11 times translated as this KJV form558 total Strong's occurrences
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
Strong's KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joshua 3:17Strong's last: Zechariah 12:3
Open full H1471 profile →בֵּן
bên · bane
5 times translated as this KJV form4,878 total Strong's occurrences
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ( ) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, (young) bullock, (young) calf, × came up in, child, colt, × common, × corn, daughter, × of first, firstborn, foal, very fruitful, postage, × in, kid, lamb, ( ) man, meet, mighty, nephew, old, ( ) people, rebel, robber, × servant born, × soldier, son, spark, steward, stranger, × surely, them of, tumultuous one, valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 29:1Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 35:13
Open full H1121 profile →δῆμος
dēmos · day'-mos
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
the public (as bound together socially)
Strong's KJV usage: :--people.
Strong's first: Acts 12:22Strong's last: Acts 19:33
Open full G1218 profile →ἔθνος
éthnos · eth'-nos
2 times translated as this KJV form165 total Strong's occurrences
a race (as of the same habit), i.e. a tribe; specially, a foreign (non-Jewish) one (usually, by implication, pagan)
Strong's KJV usage: :--Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 8:9Strong's last: Romans 10:19
Open full G1484 profile →אֻמַּה
ʼummah · oom-maw'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a collection, i.e. community of persons
Strong's KJV usage: nation, people.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 25:15Strong's last: Psalms 117:1
Open full H523 profile →עֶרֶב
ʻereb · eh'-reb
2 times translated as this KJV form132 total Strong's occurrences
dusk
Strong's KJV usage: day, even(-ing, tide), night.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 25:24Strong's last: Jeremiah 50:37
Open full H6153 profile →βάρβαρος
bárbaros · bar'-bar-os
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a foreigner (i.e. non-Greek)
Strong's KJV usage: :--barbarian(-rous).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 28:2Strong's last: Acts 28:2
Open full G915 profile →κακῶς
kakōs · kak-oce'
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
badly (physically or morally)
Strong's KJV usage: :--amiss, diseased, evil, grievously, miserably, sick, sore.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 4:24Strong's last: Matthew 4:24
Open full G2560 profile →οὖν
oûn · oon
1 times translated as this KJV form512 total Strong's occurrences
(adverbially) certainly, or (conjunctionally) accordingly
Strong's KJV usage: :--and (so, truly), but, now (then), so (likewise then), then, therefore, verily, wherefore.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 12:29Strong's last: John 12:29
Open full G3767 profile →אִישׁ
ʼîysh · eesh
1 times translated as this KJV form1,622 total Strong's occurrences
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Strong's KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 20:13Strong's last: 2 Samuel 20:13
Open full H376 profile →אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh · en-oshe'
1 times translated as this KJV form559 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
Strong's KJV usage: another, × (blood-) thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, × in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some (× of them), stranger, those, their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word. Compare 376.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jonah 3:5Strong's last: Jonah 3:5
Open full H582 profile →גַּם
gam · gam
1 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
Strong's KJV usage: again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 11:2Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 11:2
Open full H1571 profile →עֵדָה
ʻêdâh · ay-daw'
1 times translated as this KJV form149 total Strong's occurrences
a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
Strong's KJV usage: assembly, company, congregation, multitude, people, swarm. Compare 5713.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 10:6Strong's last: Leviticus 10:6
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H5971
And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
H5971
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
H5971
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
H5971
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
H5971
And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
H5971
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
H5971
Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
H5971
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
H5971
And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
H5971
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
H5971
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
H5971
Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
H5971
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
H5971
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
H5971
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
H5971
And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.
H5971
But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
H5971
But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
H5971
And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
H5971
And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
H5971
Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
H5971
And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
H5971
And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
H5971
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
no direct Strong's tag
And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
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people
PEOPLE, noun [Latin populus.]
1. The body of persons who compose a community, town, city or nation. We say, the people of a town; the people of London or Paris; the English people In this sense, the word is not used in the plural, but it comprehends all classes of inhabitants, considered as a collective body, or any portion of the inhabitants of a city or country.
2. The vulgar; the mass of illiterate persons.
The knowing artist may judge better than the people
3. The commonalty, as distinct from men of rank.
Myself shall mount the rostrum in his favor,
And strive to gain his pardon from the people
4. Persons of a particular class; a part of a nation or community; as country people
5. Persons in general; any persons indefinitely; like on in French, and man in Saxon.
PEOPLE were tempted to lend by great premiums and large interest.
6. A collection or community of animals.
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer. Proverbs 30:25.
7. When people signified a separate nation or tribe, it has the plural number.
Thou must prophesy again before many peoples. Revelation 10:11.
8. In Scripture, fathers or kindred. Genesis 25:8.
9. The Gentiles.
--To him shall the gathering of the people be. Genesis 49:10.
PEOPLE, verb transitive To stock with inhabitants. Emigrants from Europe have peopled the United States.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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