H3816 - לְאֹם (lᵉʼôm)

H3816 לְאֹם (lᵉʼôm) leh-ome'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

people

Strong's Definition

a community

Derivation: or לְאוֹם; from an unused root meaning to gather;

KJV Usage: nation, people.

TWOT Reference: 1069a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) a people, nation

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G758 G2992 G5443

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

a people, nation

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

לְאוֹם / לְאֹם leôm BDB Definition: 1) a people, nation Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from an unused root meaning to gather Same Word by TWOT Number: 1069a Total KJV Occurrences: 35

Bible Occurrences (27)

25:23 27:29

2:1 7:7 9:8 44:2 47:3 65:7 67:4 105:44 148:11

11:26 14:28 14:34 24:24

17:12 17:13 34:1 41:1 43:4 43:9 49:1 51:4 55:4 60:2

51:58

2:13

Genesis 25:23

and [He] declared to her: Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.

Genesis 27:29

May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.

Proverbs 11:26

The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.

Proverbs 14:28

A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.

Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Proverbs 24:24

Whoever tells the guilty, You are innocent”— peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;

Isaiah 17:12

Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.