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Lexicon :: Strong's H567 - 'ĕmōrî

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אֱמֹרִי
Transliteration
'ĕmōrî
Pronunciation
em-o-ree'
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Part of Speech
collective masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from אָמַר (H559) in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence
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TWOT Reference: 119

Strong’s Definitions

אֱמֹרִי ʼĔmôrîy, em-o-ree'; probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from H559 in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence; thus, a mountaineer; an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes:—Amorite.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x

The KJV translates Strong's H567 in the following manner: Amorite (87x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x
The KJV translates Strong's H567 in the following manner: Amorite (87x).

  1. Amorite = "a sayer"

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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֱמֹרִי ʼĔmôrîy, em-o-ree'; probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from H559 in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence; thus, a mountaineer; an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes:—Amorite.
STRONGS H567: Abbreviations
אֱמֹרִי proper name, masculine collective (construed as plural Deuteronomy 3:9 + 5 times) Amorites (perhaps = mountain-dwellers, compare Numbers 13:29; Deuteronomy 1:7, Deuteronomy 1:19f. etc. & Di Genesis 10:16 and elsewhere) **meaning mountain-dwellers very dubious; on א׳ = Egyptian 'A-ma-ra see WMMAs. u. Eur. 229 ff., = Tel Amarna and Assyrian Amurru, see WklTelAm. 36* JastrEB CANAAN, § 10 SayHast.DB AMORITES and others; compare also GFMJudg 4:5 DrDt l.7 GrayNum 13:29. — always with article, except Numbers 21:29; Ezekiel 16:45.
1. called son of Canaan Genesis 10:16 (J) 1 Chronicles 1:14 =
2. a chief people dispossessed by Hebrews;
(a) living east of Jordan Numbers 21:13 (twice in verse); Numbers 21:25 + 9 times Numbers + Joshua 24:8 (all E), compare Joshua 2:10; Joshua 9:10 (JE) Deuteronomy 1:4; Deuteronomy 3:2, 9 + 7 times D; also Judges 10:8, 11; Judges 11:19, 21, 23 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 4:19; Psalm 135:11; Psalm 136:19 (Sihon their king Numbers 21:1 +; Sihon & Og Deuteronomy 3:8 +);
(b) living west of Jordan Joshua 10:5, 6; Joshua 24:12, 15, 18 (all E), compare Joshua 7:7 (JE); Joshua 5:1; Joshua 10:12 (both D; compare also Joshua 13:4, q. strike out Di) Judges 1:34, 35, 36; Judges 6:10; 1 Kings 21:26; 2 Kings 21:11 compare 1 Samuel 21:2;
(c) living in south Deuteronomy 1:7, 19, 20, 27, 44; compare Genesis 14:7 (west of Dead Sea);
(d) in general = ancient inhabitants of Canaan Genesis 15:16 (J or R) Genesis 48:22 (E) Amos 2:9, 10;
(e) named in list of Canaanitish peoples, to be dispossessed by Israel Exodus 3:8, 17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 33:2; Exodus 34:11; Joshua 3:10; Joshua 9:1 (all J); Deuteronomy 7:1; Deuteronomy 20:17; Joshua 11:3; Joshua 12:8 (all D); Exodus 23:23; Numbers 13:29; Joshua 24:11 (all E); Judges 3:5; 1 Kings 9:20; 2 Chronicles 8:7; Ezra 9:1; Nehemiah 9:8; compare Ezekiel 16:3, 45; (on these lists compare BuUrgesch 344 ff. & WeJBTh xxi. 602.)
3. adjective, of a people singular Genesis 14:13 Deuteronomy 2:24.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:16; 10:16; 14:7; 14:13; 15:16; 48:22

Exodus

3:8; 3:17; 13:5; 23:23; 33:2; 34:11

Numbers

13:29; 13:29; 13:29; 21:1; 21:13; 21:25; 21:29

Deuteronomy

1:4; 1:7; 1:7; 1:19; 1:19; 1:20; 1:27; 1:44; 2:24; 3:2; 3:8; 3:9; 3:9; 7:1; 20:17

Joshua

2:10; 3:10; 5:1; 7:7; 9:1; 9:10; 10:5; 10:6; 10:12; 11:3; 12:8; 13:4; 24:8; 24:11; 24:12; 24:15; 24:18

Judges

1:34; 1:35; 1:36; 3:5; 4:5; 6:10; 10:8; 10:11; 11:19; 11:21; 11:23

1 Samuel

21:2

1 Kings

4:19; 9:20; 21:26

2 Kings

21:11

1 Chronicles

1:14

2 Chronicles

8:7

Ezra

9:1

Nehemiah

9:8

Psalms

135:11; 136:19

Ezekiel

16:3; 16:45; 16:45

Amos

2:9; 2:10

H567

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Strong's Number H567 matches the Hebrew אֱמֹרִי ('ĕmōrî),
which occurs 87 times in 86 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 10:16–Jos 12:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:16 - and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:7 - Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and subdued all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

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Then a survivor who had escaped [from the invading forces on the other side of the Jordan] came and told Abram the [fn]Hebrew. Now he was living by the terebinths (oaks) of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner—they were allies of Abram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:16 - “Then in the [fn]fourth generation your descendants shall return here [to Canaan, the land of promise], for the wickedness and guilt of the [fn]Amorites is not yet complete (finished).”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:21 - the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:22 - “Moreover, I have given you [the [fn]birthright,] one portion [Shechem, one mountain ridge] more than any of your brothers, which I took [reclaiming it] from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - “So I have come down to rescue them from the hand (power) of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a land [that is] good and spacious, to a land [fn]flowing with milk and honey [a land of plenty]—to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:17 - “So I said I will bring you up out of the suffering and oppression of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land [fn]flowing with milk and honey.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - “And it shall be when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land [of abundance] [fn]flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep and observe this rite (service) in this month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:23 - “When My Angel goes before you and brings you to [the land of] the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, I will reject them and completely destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:2 - “I will send an Angel before you and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

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“Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold, I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - “[The people descended from] Amalek live in the land of the Negev (South country); the Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the [Dead] Sea and along the side of the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - From there they journeyed on and camped on the other side of [the river] Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the boundary of the Amorites; for [the river] Arnon is the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

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Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:25 - Israel took all these cities, and settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26 - For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.

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“Woe (judgment is coming) to you, Moab!

You are destroyed, O people of [the god] Chemosh!

Moab has given his sons as fugitives [that is, survivors of battle],

And his daughters into captivity

To Sihon king of the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:31 -

Thus Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:32 - Now Moses sent men to spy out Jazer, and they overthrew its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:34 - But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have handed over him and all his people and his land to you; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:2 -

And Balak [the king of Moab] the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

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So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, the king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities and territories, the cities of the surrounding land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:39 - The sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and drove out the Amorites who were in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:4 - after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived at Ashtaroth in Edrei.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - ‘Turn and resume your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland (the Shephelah), in the Negev (South country) and on the coast of the [Mediterranean] Sea, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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“Then we set out from Horeb (Sinai), and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the hill country of the [fn]Amorites, just as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:20 - “And I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which the LORD our God is about to give us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:27 - “You murmured and were ill-tempered (discontented) in your tents, and said, ‘Because the LORD hates us He has brought us from the land of Egypt to hand us over to the Amorites to destroy us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:44 - “Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do, and struck you down in Seir as far as Hormah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:24 - ‘Now arise, continue on, and go through the valley of the [fn]Arnon. Look, I have handed over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin! Take possession [of it] and fight with him in battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:2 - “And the LORD said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you, him and all his people and his land; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’

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“So we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings [Sihon and Og] of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:9 - (the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir):

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46 - beyond the Jordan in the Valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel defeated when they came out from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:47 - They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who reigned across the Jordan to the east,

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“When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering to possess, and has cleared away many nations before you, the Hittite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:17 - “But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the LORD your God has commanded you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:4 - “The LORD will do to them just as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when He destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - “For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the [fn]Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan [on the east], to Sihon and Og, whom you [fn]utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:10 - Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will, without fail, drive out from before you the [fn]Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

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Now it happened when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted [in despair], and there was no [fighting] spirit in them any longer because of the Israelites [and what God had done for them].

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:7 - Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord [fn]GOD, why have You brought this people across the Jordan at all, only to hand us over to the Amorites, to destroy us? If only we had been willing to live beyond the Jordan!

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Now when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country and in the lowland [at the western edge of the hills of Judea], and all along the coast of the Great [Mediterranean] Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, heard of this [army and its victories over Jericho and Ai],

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:10 - and everything that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon the king of Heshbon and to Og the king of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:5 - Then the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they with all their armies, and they camped by Gibeon and fought against it.

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So the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, “Do not [fn]abandon your servants; come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all [five of] the kings of the Amorites who live in the hill country have assembled against us.”

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Then Joshua spoke to the LORD on the day when the LORD handed over the Amorites to the sons of Israel, and Joshua said in the sight of Israel,

“Sun, stand still at Gibeon,

And moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:3 - to the Canaanite in the east and in the west, and to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite at the foot of [Mount] Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the [river] Arnon, both the middle of the valley and half of Gilead, and as far as the brook Jabbok, [which is] the border of the sons of Ammon;

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