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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 20 times in 20 verses in 'Jos' in the WLC Hebrew.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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;

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8 - in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the `Aravah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amori, and the Kana`ani, the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:4 - on the south; all the land of the Kana`anim, and Me`arah that belongs to the Tzidonim, to Afek, to the border of the Amori;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - and all the cities of Sichon king of the Amori, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of `Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sichon king of the Amori, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moshe struck with the chiefs of Midyan, Evi, and Rekem, and Tzur, and Hur, and Reva, the princes of Sichon, who lived in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:8 - I brought you into the land of the Amori, that lived beyond the Yarden: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and you possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:11 - You went over the Yarden, and came to Yericho: and the men of Yericho fought against you, the Amori, and the Perizzi, and the Kana`ani, and the Hittite, and the Girgashi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi; and I delivered them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12 - I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amori; not with your sword, nor with your bow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - If it seem evil to you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amori, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:18 - and the LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amori who lived in the land: therefore we also will serve the LORD; for he is our God.
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