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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 2 / 2 (Jos 12:8–Amo 2:10)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8 - In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, H567 and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:4 - From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: H567

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, H567 which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, H567 which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:8 - And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, H567 which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:11 - And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, H567 and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12 - And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; H567 but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, H567 in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:18 - And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites H567 which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:34 - And the Amorites H567 forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:35 - But the Amorites H567 would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36 - And the coast of the Amorites H567 was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:5 - And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, H567 and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:10 - And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, H567 in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:8 - And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, H567 which is in Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:11 - And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, H567 from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19 - And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, H567 the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:21 - And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, H567 the inhabitants of that country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:22 - And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, H567 from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:23 - So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites H567 from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:14 - And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites. H567

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:2 - And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; H567 and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:19 - Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, H567 and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:20 - And all the people that were left of the Amorites, H567 Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:26 - And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, H567 whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites H567 did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:14 - The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, H567 and the Girgashite,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:7 - As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, H567 and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:1 - Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. H567

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:8 - And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, H567 and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:11 - Sihon king of the Amorites, H567 and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:19 - Sihon king of the Amorites: H567 for his mercy endureth for ever:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, H567 and thy mother an Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:45 - Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. H567

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:9 - Yet destroyed I the Amorite H567 before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:10 - Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. H567

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