Words the Bible translates as peoples
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- le'omלְאֹםa people or nation: a distinct body of people forming one ethnic or political group; a lofty, poetic word, most often used in the plural ("peoples")
- ummahאֻמָּהa nation: one distinct people, marked out by descent and homeland, among the many that a world empire rules
- ummahאֻמָּהa people group held together by common descent: a clan-sized branch of one family, or a whole people among the peoples of the world
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