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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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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

H5983

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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)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - ‘Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:26 - Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the people of Ammon, and took the royal city.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:31 - And he brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them cross over to the brick works. So he did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:27 - Now it happened, when David had come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the people of Ammon, Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - ‘because they have[fn] forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - Then the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, which were on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the people of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:2 - And the LORD sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans, bands of Syrians, bands of Moabites, and bands of the people of Ammon; He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken by His servants the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:11 - King David also dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold that he had brought from all these nations—from Edom, from Moab, from the people of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:1 - It happened after this that Nahash the king of the people of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:2 - Then David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David’s servants came to Hanun in the land of the people of Ammon to comfort him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:3 - And the princes of the people of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David really honors your father because he has sent comforters to you? Did his servants not come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:6 - When the people of Ammon saw that they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the people of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia,[fn] from Syrian Maacah, and from Zobah.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:7 - So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, with the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. Also the people of Ammon gathered together from their cities, and came to battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:9 - Then the people of Ammon came out and put themselves in battle array before the gate of the city, and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:11 - And the rest of the people he put under the command of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in battle array against the people of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:12 - Then he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the people of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:15 - When the people of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fleeing, they also fled before Abishai his brother, and entered the city. So Joab went to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:19 - And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became his servants. So the Syrians were not willing to help the people of Ammon anymore.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:1 - It happened in the spring of the year, at the time kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the armed forces and ravaged the country of the people of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. And Joab defeated Rabbah and overthrew it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:3 - And he brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work[fn] with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. So David did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:1 - It happened after this that the people of Moab with the people of Ammon, and others with them besides the Ammonites,[fn] came to battle against Jehoshaphat.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:10 - “And now, here are the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir—whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them—

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:22 - Now when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:5 - He also fought with the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. And the people of Ammon gave him in that year one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The people of Ammon paid this to him in the second and third years also.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:7 - Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14 - But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west;
Together they shall plunder the people of the East;
They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab;
And the people of Ammon shall obey them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26 - “Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:21 - Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:3 - ‘and send them to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:11 - Likewise, when all the Jews who were in Moab, among the Ammonites, in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:14 - and said to him, “Do you certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to murder you?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:10 - Then Ishmael carried away captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king’s daughters and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive and departed to go over to the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:15 - But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:1 - Against the Ammonites.
Thus says the LORD:

“Has Israel no sons?
Has he no heir?
Why then does Milcom[fn] inherit Gad,
And his people dwell in its cities?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:2 - Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD,
“That I will cause to be heard an alarm of war
In Rabbah of the Ammonites;
It shall be a desolate mound,
And her villages shall be burned with fire.
Then Israel shall take possession of his inheritance,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:6 - But afterward I will bring back
The captives of the people of Ammon,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:20 - “Appoint a road for the sword to go to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Judah, into fortified Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:28 - “And you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach,’ and say:

‘A sword, a sword is drawn,
Polished for slaughter,
For consuming, for flashing—

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:2 - “Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:3 - “Say to the Ammonites, ‘Hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5 - “And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10 - “To the men of the East I will give it as a possession, together with the Ammonites, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - “He shall also enter the Glorious Land, and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall escape from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the prominent people of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:13 - Thus says the LORD:

“For three transgressions of the people of Ammon, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead,
That they might enlarge their territory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:8 - “I have heard the reproach of Moab,
And the insults of the people of Ammon,
With which they have reproached My people,
And made arrogant threats against their borders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9 - Therefore, as I live,”
Says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
“Surely Moab shall be like Sodom,
And the people of Ammon like Gomorrah—
Overrun with weeds and saltpits,
And a perpetual desolation.
The residue of My people shall plunder them,
And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”

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