Senses
1. people, nation — The Aramaic cognate of Hebrew עַם denoting a people or nation, used collectively for ethnic/national groups. All four clusters are grammatical variants (plural determinate, singular with prepositions, singular determinate, bare singular) of one meaning. Multilingual evidence is uniform: eng: peoples/people, spa: pueblos/pueblo, hin: लोग/लोगों (people), arb: الشعوب/شعب (the peoples/a people), kor: 백성들/백성 (peoples/people), swa: mataifa/watu/taifa (nations/people/nation). The plural forms (S124600) and singular forms (S124601, S124602, S124604) all denote the same concept of a people-group or nation with no semantic distinction beyond number and syntactic role. 15×
AR["أَيُّهَا-الشُّعُوبُ","الشَّعْب","الشَّعْب-","الشُّعُوبِ","شَعْب-","شَعْبٍ","لِ-شَعْبٍ","لِـ-شَعْبِ","وَ-الشَّعْب","وَ-شَعْب"]·ben["-জনকে","-জাতির-কাছে","আর-জাতি","আর-লোকদের","জাতি","জাতিদের","জাতির","জাতিরা"]·DE["Volk","[ועמה]","[עמא]","[עמה]","und-Volk","zum-Volk"]·EN["O-peoples","and-people","and-the-people","people","peoples","the-people","the-people-of","the-peoples","to-people","to-people-of"]·FR["[ועמה]","[עמא]","[עמה]","et-peuple","peuple","pour-peuple"]·heb["ה-עמים","ו-עם","ו-עמה","ל-עם","עם","עמא","עמה","עמים"]·HI["और-लोगों-को","को-लोगों","या-लोगों-को","लोग","लोगों","लोगों-की","लोगों-में-से","हे-लोगों"]·ID["-bangsa-bangsa","bangsa","bangsa-bangsa","dan-bangsa","dan-rakyat","hai-bangsa-bangsa","kepada-bangsa","kepada-umat","rakyat"]·IT["[ועמה]","[עמא]","[עמה]","al-popolo","e-popolo","popolo"]·jav["bangsa","bangsa-bangsa","dhateng-bangsa","dhateng-umat","kang-umat","lan-umat","mbucal","para-bangsa"]·KO["그-백성","그리고-그-백성","그리고-백성","민족들이","백성들","백성들아","백성들이","백성이","에게-백성","에게-백성에게"]·PT["a-povo","ao-povo-dos","e-o-povo","e-povo","o-povo","o-povo-de","os-povos","povo","ó-povos"]·RU["-народам","-народы","и-народ","и-народ-его","народ","народа","народам","народу","народы"]·ES["a-pueblo","al-pueblo","el-pueblo","el-pueblo-de","los-pueblos","oh-pueblos","pueblo","y-al-pueblo","y-pueblo"]·SW["kwa-watu","mataifa","na-watu","taifa","watu","ya-watu"]·TR["halk","halka","halkin","halkindan","halkini","halklar","halklara","ve-halki"]·urd["اور-قوم-اُس-کی","اور-قوم-کو","اے-قوموں","قوم","قوم-اُس-کی","قوم-کو","قوموں","قوموں-نے","قومیں","کو-قوم"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† עַם n.m. Ezr 6:12 people (v. BH I. עמם, עַם);—ע׳ abs. Dn 2:44; 3:29; Ezr 6:12, cstr. Dn 7:27; emph. עַמָּה Ezr 5:12, עַמָּא 7:13, 16, 25; pl. emph. עַמְמַיָּא (K§§ 15 d); 55, 5 a)) Dn 3:4, 7(×2), 31; 5:19; 6:26; 7:14.