Help QuickNav Adv. Options
HNV

HNV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H567 - 'ĕmōrî

Choose a new font size and typeface
אֱמֹרִי
Transliteration
'ĕmōrî
Pronunciation
em-o-ree'
Listen
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
Dictionary Aids

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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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

Read the Full Entry

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:16 - the Yevusi, the Amori, the Girgashi,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:7 - They returned, and came to En-mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the `Amaleki, and also the Amori, that lived in Hatzatzon-Tamar.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13 - One who had escaped came and told Avram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amori, brother of Eshkol, and brother of `Aner; and these were allies of Avram.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:16 - In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amori is not yet full."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:21 - the Amori, the Kana`anim, the Girgashi, and the Yevusi."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:22 - Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amori with my sword and with my bow."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Mitzrim, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Kana`ani, the Hittite, the Amori, the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:17 - and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Mitzrayim to the land of the Kana`ani, the Hittite, the Amori, the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - It shall be, when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the Kana`ani, and the Hittite, and the Amori, and the Hivvi, and the Yevusi, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:23 - For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amori, the Hittite, the Perizzi, the Kana`ani, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi; and I will cut them off.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:2 - I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Kana`ani, the Amori, and the Hittite, and the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:11 - Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amori, the Kana`ani, the Hittite, the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - `Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Yevusi, and the Amori, dwell in the hill-country; and the Kana`ani dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Yarden.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amori: for the Arnon is the border of Mo'av, between Mo'av and the Amori.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:21 - Yisra'el sent messengers to Sichon king of the Amori, saying,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:25 - Yisra'el took all these cities: and Yisra'el lived in all the cities of the Amori, in Heshbon, and in all the towns of it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26 - For Heshbon was the city of Sichon the king of the Amori, who had fought against the former king of Mo'av, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:29 - Woe to you, Mo'av! You are undone, people of Kemosh: He has given his sons as fugitives, His daughters into captivity, To Sichon king of the Amori.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:31 - Thus Yisra'el lived in the land of the Amori.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:32 - Moshe sent to spy out Ya`zer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out the Amori who were there.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:34 - The LORD said to Moshe, Don't fear him: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sichon king of the Amori, who lived at Heshbon.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:2 - Balak the son of Tzippor saw all that Yisra'el had done to the Amori.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - Moshe gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Re'uven, and to the half-tribe of Menashsheh the son of Yosef, the kingdom of Sichon king of the Amori, and the kingdom of `Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with their borders, even the cities of the land round about.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:39 - The children of Makhir the son of Menashsheh went to Gil`ad, and took it, and dispossessed the Amori who were therein.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:4 - after he had struck Sichon the king of the Amori, who lived in Heshbon, and `Og the king of Bashan, who lived in `Ashtarot, at Edre`i.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amori, and to all the places near thereunto, in the `Aravah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Kana`anim, and Levanon, as far as the great river, the river Perat.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:19 - We traveled from Horev, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amori, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-Barnea.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:20 - I said to you, You are come to the hill-country of the Amori, which the LORD our God gives to us.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:27 - and you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, to deliver us into the hand of the Amori, to destroy us.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:44 - The Amori, who lived in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Se`ir, even to Hormah.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:24 - Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sichon the Amori, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:2 - The LORD said to me, Don't fear him; for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sichon king of the Amori, who lived at Heshbon.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:8 - We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amori who were beyond the Yarden, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:9 - (which Hermon the Tzidonim call Siryon, and the Amori call it Senir;)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46 - beyond the Yarden, in the valley over against Beit-Pe`or, in the land of Sichon king of the Amori, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moshe and the children of Yisra'el struck, when they came forth out of Mitzrayim.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:47

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:47 - They took his land in possession, and the land of `Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amori, who were beyond the Yarden toward the sunrise;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1 - When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashi, and the Amori, and the Kana`ani, and the Perizzi, and the Hivvi, and the Yevusi, seven nations greater and mightier than you;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:17 - but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amori, the Kana`ani, and the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi; as the LORD your God has commanded you;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:4 - The LORD will do to them as he did to Sichon and to `Og, the kings of the Amori, and to their land; whom he destroyed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Sea of Suf before you, when you came out of Mitzrayim; and what you did to the two kings of the Amori, who were beyond the Yarden, to Sichon and to `Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:10 - Yehoshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Kana`ani, and the Hittite, and the Hivvi, and the Perizzi, and the Girgashi, and the Amori, and the Yevusi.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 - It happened, when all the kings of the Amori, who were beyond the Yarden westward, and all the kings of the Kana`anim, who were by the sea, heard how that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Yarden from before the children of Yisra'el, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Yisra'el.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:7 - Yehoshua said, Alas, Lord GOD, why have you at all brought this people over the Yarden, to deliver us into the hand of the Amori, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and lived beyond the Yarden!

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:1 - It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Yarden, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Levanon, the Hittite, and the Amori, the Kana`ani, the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi, heard of it;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:10 - and all that he did to the two kings of the Amori, who were beyond the Yarden, to Sichon king of Heshbon, and to `Og king of Bashan, who was at `Ashtarot.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:5 - Therefore the five kings of the Amori, the king of Yerushalayim, the king of Hevron, the king of Yarmut, the king of Lakhish, the king of `Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped against Giv`on, and made war against it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:6 - The men of Giv`on sent to Yehoshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Don't slack your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amori that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:12 - Then spoke Yehoshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amori before the children of Yisra'el; and he said in the sight of Yisra'el, Sun, stand you still on Giv`on; You, Moon, in the valley of Ayalon.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:3 - to the Kana`ani on the east and on the west, and the Amori, and the Hittite, and the Perizzi, and the Yevusi in the hill-country, and the Hivvi under Hermon in the land of Mitzpah.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sichon king of the Amori, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from `Aro`er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and half Gil`ad, even to the river Yabbok, the border of the children of `Ammon;

Search Results Continued...

1. Currently on page 1/2 (Gen 10:16–Jos 12:2) Gen 10:16–Jos 12:2

2. LOAD PAGE 2 Jos 12:8–Amo 2:10

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
HNV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
HNV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan