Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3816
לְאֹם
leomleh-ome'
people
31 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lᵉʼôm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3816is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3816
a community
The King James renders it: nation, people.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
leom is rendered "people". It stands 31 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 25:23and 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.”
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
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 25:23לְאֻמִּ֔ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- peoples9
- nations6
- and peoples5
- a people2
- and nations2
- and a people1
- and O nation my1
- and O peoples1
- more than a people1
- O peoples1
- peoples of1
- to a people1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 31, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
19 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּלְאֻמִּ֖ים4
- לְאֻמִּ֔ים4
- לְאֻמִּֽים׃3
- וּ֝לְאֻמִּ֗ים2
- לְ֝אֻמִּ֗ים2
- לְאֻמִּ֣ים2
- לְאֻמִּ֑ים2
- וּלְאוּמִּ֖י1
- וּלְאֹם֙1
- וּלְאֻמִּ֥ים1
- וּלְאֻמִּ֓ים׀1
- לְא֑וֹם1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural18HNcmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural8HC/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp1bs
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Genesis
four uses
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.”
- לְאֻמִּ֔יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: peoples
- וּלְאֹם֙uleomconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a people
- מִלְאֹ֣םmilompreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: more than a people
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.”
- לְאֻמִּ֔יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: peoples
Psalms
ten uses
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- וּ֝לְאֻמִּ֗יםuleumimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and peoples
Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.
- לְ֭אֻמִּיםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: nations
He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.
- לְ֝אֻמִּ֗יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: nations
With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
- לְ֝אֻמִּ֗יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: peoples
He subdues nations beneath us, and peoples under our feet.
- וּ֝לְאֻמִּ֗יםuleumimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and peoples
You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.
- לְאֻמִּֽים׃leumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: peoples
Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for You judge the peoples justly and lead the nations of the earth. Selah
- לְאֻ֫מִּ֥יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: nations
- וּלְאֻמִּ֓ים׀uleumimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and nations
He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
- לְאֻמִּ֣יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: peoples
kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth,
- לְאֻמִּ֑יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: peoples of
Proverbs
four uses
The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.
- לְא֑וֹםleomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a people
A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.
- לְ֝אֹ֗םleomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a people
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
- לְאֻמִּ֣יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: to a people
Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;
- לְאֻמִּֽים׃leumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: nations
Isaiah
eleven uses
Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
- לְאֻמִּ֔יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: nations
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.
- לְאֻמִּ֗יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: nations
Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.
- וּלְאֻמִּ֖יםuleumimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and O peoples
“Be silent before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come forward and testify; let us together draw near for judgment.
- וּלְאֻמִּ֖יםuleumimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and peoples
Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.
- וּלְאֻמִּ֖יםuleumimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and peoples
All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”
- לְאֻמִּ֔יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: peoples
Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
- לְאֻמִּ֖יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: O peoples
Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.
- וּלְאוּמִּ֖יuleumiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and O nation my
Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.
- לְאוּמִּ֖יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: peoples
- לְאֻמִּֽים׃leumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: peoples
For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.
- לְאֻמִּ֑יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: peoples
Jeremiah
one use
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
- וּלְאֻמִּ֥יםuleumimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and peoples
Habakkuk
one use
Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
- וּלְאֻמִּ֖יםuleumimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and nations
The letters
Gematria 71· 631 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
