STRONGS NUMBER H3816


Word Summary
leom: people
Original Word: לְאֹם
Transliteration: leom
Phonetic Spelling: (leh-ome')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: people
Meaning: a community
Strong's Concordance
nation, people

Or l owm {leh-ome'}; from an unused root meaning to gather; a community -- nation, people.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3816. leom

לְאוֺם לְאֹם,noun masculineGenesis 25:23 people, in poetry and chiefly late; — ׳ל‎ absolute 25:23 (twice in verse); Proverbs 14:28, לְאוֺם11:26; suffix לְאוּמִּיIsaiah 51:4; plural לְאֻמִּיםGenesis 25:23 28t.; לְאוּמִיםIsaiah 55:4; — people, both of Israel and of Edom, Genesis 25:23 (3 t. in verse) (J; Jacob and Esau; "" גּוֺי‎); elsewhere of Israel only Isaiah 51:4 (singular "" עַם‎); usually plural of other peoples: — ל ׳שְׁאוֺן17:12 ("" עמים הֲמוֺן‎, compare 17:13; "" גּוֺיִם34:1; 43:9; Psalm 2:1; 44:3; 44:15; 105:44; 149:7, compare Isaiah 55:4 (twice in verse) (גּוֺי‎ in 55:5); "" עַמִּיםGenesis 27:29 (J), Habakkuk 2:13; Jeremiah 51:58; Psalm 47:4; 57:10; 67:5 (twice in verse); 108:4; Proverbs 24:24; further Isaiah 41:1; 49:1 (both "" אִיִּים‎), 43:4 ("" אָ֯דָם60:2 ("" אֶרֶץ‎), Psalm 9:9 ("" תֵּבֵל‎), 148:11 ("" אֶרֶץ מַלְכֵי‎, etc.); לְאֻמִּים עֲדַת7:8, ל ׳הֲמוֺן65:8; of any and all peoples Proverbs 14:34; singular indefinite = people in General, as making public opinion, 11:26 (collective, with plural verb); = population, as subjects of prince 14:28 ("" עַם‎).