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title: לְאֹם — people · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לְאֹם (3816), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 31 times: people. BDB 1906: n.m. people. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לְאֹם

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«לְאֹם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **people** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 31 times · **Key:** 3816 · **BDB:** לְאֹם

### Glosses

peoples (11); nations (5); a.people (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

people [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3816/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. people [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3816/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 25:23 people, poet. and chiefly late;—ל׳ abs. Gn 25:23(×2) Pr 14:28, לְאוֹם Pr 11:26; sf. לְאוּמִּו Is 51:4; pl. לְאֻמִּים Gn 25:23 + 28 times; לְאוּמִּים Is 55:4;—people, both of Isr. and of Edom, Gn 25:23(×3) (J; Jacob and Esau; ‖ גּוֹי); elsewhere of Isr. only Is 51:4 (sg. ‖ עַם); usually pl. of other peoples:—שְׁאוֹן ל׳ Is 17:12 (‖ הֲמוֹן עמים), cf. v 13; ‖ גּוֹיִם Is 34:1; 43:9; ψ 2:1; 44:3, 15; 105:44; 149:7, cf. Is 55:4(×2) (גּוֹי in v 5); ‖ עַמִּים Gn 27:29 (J), Hb 2:13 Je 51:58 ψ 47:4; 57:10; 67:5(×2); 108:4; Pr 24:24; further Is 41:1; 49:1 (both ‖ אִיִּים), 43:4 (‖ אָדָם), 60:2 (‖ אֶרֶץ), ψ 9:9 (‖ תֵּבֵל), 148:11 (‖ מַלְכֵי אֶרֶץ, etc.); עֲדַת לְאֻמִּים ψ 7:8, הֲמוֹן ל׳ 65:8; of any and all peoples Pr 14:34; sg. indef. = people in gen., as making public opinion, 11:26 (coll., c. pl. vb.); = population, as subjects of prince 14:28 (‖ עַם).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 27 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לְאֹם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3816/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 14:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.34/)

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צְדָקָ֥ה תְרֽוֹמֵֽם־גּ֑וֹי וְחֶ֖סֶד לְאֻמִּ֣ים חַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* righteousness it.exalts a.nation and.\[is\] a.shame to.a.people sin

*JPS 1917:* Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.

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[Psalms 2:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.1/)

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לָ֭מָּה רָגְשׁ֣וּ גוֹיִ֑ם וּ֝לְאֻמִּ֗ים יֶהְגּוּ־רִֽיק׃

*Word for word:* why? do.they.plot nations and peoples do.they.devise? emptiness

*JPS 1917:* Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?

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