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Lexicon :: Strong's H6021 - ʿămāśā'

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עֲמָשָׂא
Transliteration
ʿămāśā'
Pronunciation
am-aw-saw'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

עֲמָשָׂא ʻĂmâsâʼ, am-aw-saw'; from H6006; burden; Amasa, the name of two Israelites:—Amasa.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's H6021 in the following manner: Amasa (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's H6021 in the following manner: Amasa (16x).

  1. Amasa = "burden"

    1. son of Ithra or Jether by Abigail the sister of David and general of the army of Absalom

    2. son of Hadlai and a prince of Ephraim in the reign of king Ahaz

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֲמָשָׂא ʻĂmâsâʼ, am-aw-saw'; from H6006; burden; Amasa, the name of two Israelites:—Amasa.
STRONGS H6021: Abbreviations
עֲמָשָׂא16 proper name, masculine (compare עמס, ענשׂ ? or read עַמִּשַׂי (II. עַם + יִשַׂי), WeIsrael u. Jüd. Geschichte. 24, compare GrayProp. N. 44, 323); —
1. Absalom's general 2 Samuel 17:25 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 19:14 + 8 times 2 Samuel 20; 1 Kings 2:5, 32; 1 Chronicles 2:17 (twice in verse), Greek Version of the LXX Αμεσς(α)ει, LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Αμεσσα.
2. Ephraimite 2 Chronicles 28:12.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Samuel

17:25; 19:14; 20

1 Kings

2:5; 2:32

1 Chronicles

2:17

2 Chronicles

28:12

H6021

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6021 matches the Hebrew עֲמָשָׂא (ʿămāśā'),
which occurs 16 times in 12 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:25 - Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of Jether,[fn] an Ishmaelite[fn] who had married Abigail[fn], the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:13 - And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my own flesh and blood? May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if you are not the commander of my army for life in place of Joab.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:4 - Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:5 - But when Amasa went to summon Judah, he took longer than the time the king had set for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:8 - While they were at the great rock in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was wearing his military tunic, and strapped over it at his waist was a belt with a dagger in its sheath. As he stepped forward, it dropped out of its sheath.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:9 - Joab said to Amasa, “How are you, my brother?” Then Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:10 - Amasa was not on his guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab plunged it into his belly, and his intestines spilled out on the ground. Without being stabbed again, Amasa died. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bikri.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:12 - Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the road, and the man saw that all the troops came to a halt there. When he realized that everyone who came up to Amasa stopped, he dragged him from the road into a field and threw a garment over him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:5 - “Now you yourself know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He killed them, shedding their blood in peacetime as if in battle, and with that blood he stained the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:32 - The LORD will repay him for the blood he shed, because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better men and more upright than he.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:17 - Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:12 - Then some of the leaders in Ephraim—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berekiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—confronted those who were arriving from the war.
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