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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

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

Eleven of the word's thirty-one uses are in Isaiah.

The other 33 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

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.”

    Genesis 25:23

    • 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.”

    Genesis 27:29

    • לְאֻמִּ֔יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: peoples

Psalms

ten uses
  • Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

    Psalms 2:1

    • וּ֝לְאֻמִּ֗יםuleumimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and peoples
  • Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.

    Psalms 7:7

    • לְ֭אֻמִּיםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: nations
  • He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.

    Psalms 9:8

    • 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.

    Psalms 44:2

    • לְ֝אֻמִּ֗יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: peoples
  • He subdues nations beneath us, and peoples under our feet.

    Psalms 47:3

    • 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.

    Psalms 65:7

    • 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

    Psalms 67:4

    • 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,

    Psalms 105:44

    • לְאֻמִּ֣יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: peoples
  • kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth,

    Psalms 148:11

    • 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.

    Proverbs 11:26

    • לְא֑וֹםleomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a people
  • A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.

    Proverbs 14:28

    • לְ֝אֹ֗םleomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a people
  • Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

    Proverbs 14:34

    • לְאֻמִּ֣יםleumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: to a people
  • Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;

    Proverbs 24:24

    • 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.

    Isaiah 17:12

    • 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.

    Isaiah 17:13

    • 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.

    Isaiah 34:1

    • 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.

    Isaiah 41:1

    • 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.

    Isaiah 43:4

    • 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.”

    Isaiah 43:9

    • 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.

    Isaiah 49:1

    • 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.

    Isaiah 51:4

    • 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.

    Isaiah 55:4

    • 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.

    Isaiah 60:2

    • 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.”

    Jeremiah 51:58

    • 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?

    Habakkuk 2:13

    • 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.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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