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Lexicon :: Strong's H5983 - ʿammôn

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עַמּוֹן
Transliteration
ʿammôn
Pronunciation
am-mone'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1642

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: עמון.

Strong’s Definitions

עַמּוֹן ʻAmmôwn, am-mone'; from H5971; tribal, i.e. inbred; Ammon, a son of Lot; also his posterity and their country:—Ammon, Ammonites.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 105x

The KJV translates Strong's H5983 in the following manner: Ammon (90x), Ammonites (with H1121) (13x), Ammonites (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 105x
The KJV translates Strong's H5983 in the following manner: Ammon (90x), Ammonites (with H1121) (13x), Ammonites (2x).
  1. Ammon = "tribal"

    1. a people dwelling in Transjordan descended from Lot through Ben-ammi

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עַמּוֹן ʻAmmôwn, am-mone'; from H5971; tribal, i.e. inbred; Ammon, a son of Lot; also his posterity and their country:—Ammon, Ammonites.
STRONGS H5983: Abbreviations
עַמּוֹן 106 proper name, of a people Ammon, Greek Version of the LXX Αμμαν, Αμμων (Assyrian Bît Ammanu COTGlossary); always (except 1 Samuel 11:11 [where however Greek Version of the LXX reads בְּנֵי ע׳], Psalm 83:8, which have ע׳ alone) בְּנֵי עַמּוֹן, connected by J with בֶּןעַֿמִּי son of Lot Genesis 19:38 (and meaning of name doubtless sought herein by J; compare II. עַם); people apparently akin to Israel, but usually hostile, dwelling east of Jordan, northeast of Moab, between Arnon and Jabbok: Numbers 21:24 (twice in verse) (JE), Deuteronomy 2:19 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 2:37; Deuteronomy 3:11, 16; Joshua 12:2; Joshua 13:10 (D), Joshua 13:25 (P), Judges 3:13; Judges 10:6 + 25 times Judges 10-12, 1 Samuel 11:11; 1 Samuel 12:12; 1 Samuel 14:47; 2 Samuel 8:12; 2 Samuel 10:1 + 14 times 2 Samuel 10-12; 2 Samuel 17:27; 1 Kings 11:7, 33; 2 Kings 23:13; 2 Kings 24:2; 1 Chronicles 18:11 + 20 times Chronicles, Amos 1:13; Isaiah 11:14; Jeremiah 9:25 + 9 times Jeremiah, Zephaniah 2:8, 9; Ezekiel 21:25; Ezekiel 21:33 + 5 times Ezekiel 25; Daniel 11:41. — See CheAmmon in Ency. Bib.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

19:38

Numbers

21:24

Deuteronomy

2:19; 2:37; 3:11; 3:16

Joshua

12:2; 13:10; 13:25

Judges

3:13; 10; 10:6; 11; 12

1 Samuel

11:11; 11:11; 12:12; 14:47

2 Samuel

8:12; 10; 10:1; 11; 12; 17:27

1 Kings

11:7; 11:33

2 Kings

23:13; 24:2

1 Chronicles

18:11

Psalms

83:8

Isaiah

11:14

Jeremiah

9:25

Ezekiel

21:25; 25

Daniel

11:41

Amos

1:13

Zephaniah

2:8; 2:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5983 matches the Hebrew עַמּוֹן (ʿammôn),
which occurs 106 times in 98 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 2 (2Sa 12:9–Zep 2:9)

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - ‘Why have you despised the word of Yahweh by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon H5983.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:26 -

Then Joab fought against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon H5983 and captured the royal city.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:31 - He also brought out the people who were in it and set them up with saws, sharp iron instruments, and iron axes, and made them pass through the brickkiln. And thus he used to do to all the cities of the sons of Ammon H5983. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:27 -

Now it happened that when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the sons of Ammon H5983, Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is [fn]east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon H5983.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - because they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon H5983; and they have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My sight and to keep My statutes and My judgments, as his father David did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - And the high places which were before Jerusalem, which were on the right of the mount of destruction which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the detestable idol of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon H5983, the king defiled.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:2 - And Yahweh sent against him marauding bands of Chaldeans, marauding bands of Arameans, marauding bands of Moabites, and marauding bands of Ammonites H5983. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh which He had spoken by the hand of His slaves the prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:11 - King David also set these apart as holy to Yahweh with the silver and the gold which he had carried away from all the nations: from Edom, Moab, the sons of Ammon H5983, the Philistines, and from Amalek.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:1 -

Now it happened afterwards, that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon H5983 died, and his son became king in his place.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:2 - So David said, “I will show lovingkindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed lovingkindness to me.” So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the sons of Ammon H5983 to Hanun to comfort him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:3 - But the princes of the sons of Ammon H5983 said to Hanun, “In your eyes, is David honoring your father because he has sent comforters to you? Have not his servants come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:6 -

Then the sons of Ammon H5983 saw that they had made themselves odious to David. So Hanun and the sons of Ammon H5983 sent [fn]1,000 talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah, and from Zobah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:7 - So they hired for themselves 32,000 chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and camped before Medeba. And the sons of Ammon H5983 gathered together from their cities and came to battle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:9 - And the sons of Ammon H5983 came out and arranged themselves for battle at the entrance of the city. But the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:11 - But the remainder of the people he put in the hand of [fn]Abshai his brother; and they arranged themselves to meet the sons of Ammon H5983.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:12 - And he said, “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you shall save me; but if the sons of Ammon H5983 are too strong for you, then I will save you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:15 - Now the sons of Ammon H5983 saw that the Arameans fled. So they themselves also fled before Abshai his brother and came into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:19 - Then the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were [fn]defeated by Israel. So they made peace with David and served him. And the Arameans were not willing to save the sons of Ammon H5983 anymore.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:1 -

Now it happened [fn]in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the force of the military and brought the land of the sons of Ammon H5983 to ruin, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and [fn]tore it down.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:3 - He also brought out the people who were in it and [fn]made them work with saws and with sharp iron instruments and with axes. And thus David used to do to all the cities of the sons of Ammon H5983. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:1 -

Now it happened after this, that the sons of Moab and the sons of Ammon H5983, together with some of the [fn]Ammonites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:10 - “So now, behold, the sons of Ammon H5983 and Moab and [fn]Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt (they turned aside from them and did not destroy them),
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:22 - When they began singing for joy and praising, Yahweh set ambushes against the sons of Ammon H5983, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; so they were [fn]defeated.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - Indeed, the sons of Ammon H5983 and Moab stood against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to devote them to destruction and to utterly eradicate them; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to bring one another to ruin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:5 - He fought also with the king of the sons of Ammon H5983 and prevailed over them. So the sons of Ammon H5983 gave him during that year [fn]100 talents of silver, [fn]10,000 kors of wheat, and 10,000 of barley. The sons of Ammon H5983 also brought back to him this amount in the second and in the third year.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:7 -

Gebal and Ammon H5983 and Amalek,

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14 -

And they will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the west;

Together they will plunder the sons of the east;

[fn]They will stretch out their hands over Edom and Moab,

And the sons of Ammon H5983 [fn]will obey them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26 - Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon H5983, and Moab and all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:21 - Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon H5983,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:3 - and you shall send [fn]word to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the sons of Ammon H5983, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon by the hand of messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:11 - And also all the Jews, who were in Moab and among the sons of Ammon H5983 and in Edom and who were in all the other lands, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant for Judah and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:14 - and said to him, “Do you indeed know that Baalis the king of the sons of Ammon H5983 has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to strike down your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:10 - Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people who were in Mizpah, the king’s daughters and all the people who remained in Mizpah, over whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; thus Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and went to cross over to the sons of Ammon H5983.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:15 - But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the sons of Ammon H5983.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:1 -

Concerning the sons of Ammon H5983. Thus says Yahweh:

“Does Israel have no sons?

Or has he no one who can take possession?

Why then has [fn]Malcam taken possession of Gad

And his people settled in its cities?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:2 -

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh,

“That I will cause a [fn]trumpet blast of war to be heard

Against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon H5983;

And it will become a desolate heap,

And her towns will be set on fire.

Then Israel will take possession of his possessors,”

Says Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:6 -

“But afterward I will [fn]return

The [fn]fortunes of the sons of Ammon H5983,”

Declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:20 - “You shall [fn]mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon H5983 and to Judah into fortified Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:28 -

“Now as for you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh concerning the sons of Ammon H5983 and concerning their reproach,’ and say: ‘A sword, a sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter, to cause it [fn]to consume, that it may be like lightning

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:2 - “Son of man, set your face toward the sons of Ammon H5983 and prophesy against them
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:3 - and say to the sons of Ammon H5983, ‘Hear the word of Lord Yahweh! Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into exile,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5 - “I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the sons of Ammon H5983 a resting place for flocks. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10 - and I will give it for a possession along with the sons of Ammon H5983 to the sons of the east, so that the sons of Ammon H5983 will not be remembered among the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - “And he will also enter the [fn]Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall; but these will be rescued out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and the foremost of the sons of Ammon H5983.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:13 -

Thus says Yahweh,

“For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon H5983 and for four

I will not turn back its punishment

Because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead

In order to enlarge their borders.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:8 -

“I have heard the reproach of Moab

And the revilings of the sons of Ammon H5983,

With which they have reproached My people

And magnified themselves against their territory.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9 -

“Therefore, as I live,” declares Yahweh of hosts,

The God of Israel,

“Surely Moab will be like Sodom

And the sons of Ammon H5983 like Gomorrah

A place possessed by nettles and salt pits,

And a perpetual desolation.

The remnant of My people will plunder them,

And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.”


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