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HebrewH0567Noun

אֱמֹרִי

e.mo.ri

86Occurrences
H0567Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes

probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from H559 (אָמַר) in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence; thus, a mountaineer;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Someone descended from Amor(?), first mentioned at ; descended from Canaan (H3667); along with Sidon (H6721), Heth (H2845), Jebusite (H2983), Girgashite (H1622), Hivite (H2340), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H0721), Zemarite (H6786) and Hamathite (H2577) § Amorite = "a sayer" one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--LG

Full Description

N:N--LG

Occurrences

אֱמֹרִי appears 86 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
20
Deuteronomy
15
Numbers
12
Judges
11
Exodus
6
Genesis
6
1 Kings
3
Amos
2

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:14BSB

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Deuteronomy 20:17BSB

For you must devote them to complete destruction —the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,

Genesis 10:16BSB

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Joshua 10:5BSB

So the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces and advanced with all their armies. They camped before Gibeon and made war against it.

Joshua 7:7BSB

“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.