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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Hebrew - English Dictionary

H567 - Amorites

Strong's No.:H567

Hebrew:אֱמֹרִי

Transliteration:ʼĔmôrîy

Phonetic:em-o-ree'

Word Origin:Probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from H559 in the sense of {publicity} that {is} prominence

Bible Usage:Amorite.

Part of Speech:Noun Masculine

Strongs
Definition:

thus a mountaineer; an {Emorite} one of the Canaanitish tribes


Brown Driver
Biggs Definition:

Amorite = "a sayer"

1. one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt


Bible References:
Amorites

Translation
Occurrences:
Amorite ( 14 )
Amorites ( 73 )

 

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.