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# עַם

Biblical Aramaic

**people** — used 15 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

people [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b7_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַם: n.m. people [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b7_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 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.

### Jastrow 1903

עַם: to press, crowd, join gathering, crowd, people gentiles [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b7_5dd/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** עמם to press, crowd, join) gathering, crowd, people. Snh. 94ᵇ, v. עָיֵף. Men. 53ᵇ יבא זח … לעם זו let ‘this one’ (Moses) come and receive ‘this’ (the Law) … for ‘this people’ (Israel); a. fr.—עם הארץ, v. אֶרֶץ.—Pl. עַמִּים gentiles. Sabb. 14ᵇ, a. fr. על ארץ הע׳ concerning (importations from) heathen countries. Y. Shebi. VI, 36ᵇ bot.; a. fr.—V. עֲמָם.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 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 (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (9); people (2); O (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 3:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.4/#tree)

וְכָרוֹזָ֖א קָרֵ֣א בְחָ֑יִל לְכ֤וֹן אָֽמְרִין֙ עַֽמְמַיָּ֔א אֻמַּיָּ֖א וְלִשָּׁנַיָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and the herald \[was\].proclaiming with power to you \[they.are\].saying O peoples (the) nations and (the) languages

*JPS 1917:* And the herald cried aloud: 'To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,

[Daniel 3:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.31/#tree)

נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֗א לְֽכָל־עַֽמְמַיָּ֞א אֻמַיָּ֧א וְלִשָּׁנַיָּ֛א דִּֽי־דָיְרִ֥ין בְּכָל־אַרְעָ֖א שְׁלָמְכ֥וֹן יִשְׂגֵּֽא׃

*Word for word:* Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples the nations and the languages which \[are\].dwelling in all the earth peace your may.it.increase

*JPS 1917:* 'Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; peace be multiplied unto you.

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 143 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 44 times there, in the forms עַם (28); לְעַם (15); וְעַם (1).

[Genesis 12:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.2/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְאֶעְבְּדִנָּךְ לְעַם סַגִּי וֶאֱבָרֵכִנָּךְ וַאֲרַבֵּי שְׁמָךְ וּתְהֵא מְבָרֵךְ

וְאֶֽעֶשְׂךָ֙ לְג֣וֹי גָּד֔וֹל וַאֲבָ֣רֶכְךָ֔ וַאֲגַדְּלָ֖ה שְׁמֶ֑ךָ וֶהְיֵ֖ה בְּרָכָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and I will.make.you into a.nation great and I will.bless.you and I.will.make.great name your and be a.blessing

*JPS 1917:* And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

[Deuteronomy 32:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.28/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

אֲרֵי עַם מְאַבְּדֵי עֵצָה אִנוּן וְלֵית בְּהוֹן סוּכְלְתָנוּ

כִּי־ג֛וֹי אֹבַ֥ד עֵצ֖וֹת הֵ֑מָּה וְאֵ֥ין בָּהֶ֖ם תְּבוּנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[are\].a.nation perishing of.counsel(s) they and there.\[is\].not in them understanding

*JPS 1917:* For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b7_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b7_5dd/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).