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ʕm, vocalized ʕam, is most often a word roughly equivalent to the English "people". However, BDB recognizes a second ʕam, meaning paternal kinsman (see also HALOT, DCH). It is this later sense that explains why ʕam is plural in ʕasaf ʔel ʕamav, "he was gathered to his kinsmen."
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