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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 hill country and in the [fn]Shephelah and in the Arabah and on the slopes and in the wilderness and in the [fn]Negev; the Hittite, the Amorite H567 and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:4 - [fn]to the south, all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorite H567;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites H567, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - even all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites H567 who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:8 - ‘Then I brought you into the land of the Amorites H567 who lived beyond the Jordan, and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:11 - ‘And you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the citizens of Jericho fought against you, and the Amorite H567 and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. Thus I gave them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12 - ‘Then I sent the hornet before you, and it [fn]drove out the two kings of the Amorites H567 from before you, but not by your sword or your bow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - “If it is evil in your sight to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites H567 in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:18 - “And Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites H567 who lived in the land. We also will serve Yahweh, for He is our God.”

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Then the Amorites H567 pressed the sons of Dan into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the valley;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:35 - and the Amorites H567 persisted in [fn]living in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but the hand of the house of Joseph became heavy, and they became forced labor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36 - Now the border of the Amorites H567 ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:5 - Now the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites H567, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:10 - and I said to you, “I am Yahweh your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites H567 in whose land you live. But you have not listened to My voice.”’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:8 - And they shattered and smashed the sons of Israel [fn]that year; for eighteen years they did this to all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan [fn]in Gilead in the land of the Amorites H567.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:11 - Then Yahweh said to the sons of Israel, “Did I not save you from the Egyptians, the Amorites H567, the sons of Ammon, and the Philistines?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19 - ‘And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites H567, the king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, “Please let us pass through your land to our place.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:21 - ‘Then Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them down; so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites H567, the inhabitants of that country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:22 - ‘So they possessed all the territory of the Amorites H567, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and from the wilderness as far as the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:23 - ‘So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites H567 from before His people Israel. Are you then to 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 to Gath; and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. So there was peace between Israel and the Amorites H567.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:2 - So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites H567, and the sons of Israel [fn]made a covenant with them, but Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah).

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:19 -

Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites H567 and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only deputy who was in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:20 - As for all the people who were left of the Amorites H567, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:26 - And he acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites H567 had done, whom Yahweh dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - “Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations—he has done evil more than all the Amorites H567 did who were before him—and has also made Judah sin with his idols,

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and the [fn]Jebusites, the Amorites H567, the Girgashites,

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As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites H567, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,

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Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those 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 -

“You found his heart faithful before You,

And cut a covenant with him

To give him the land of the Canaanite,

Of the Hittite and the Amorite H567,

Of the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite—

To give it to his seed.

And You have established Your promise,

For You are 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 lovingkindness endures forever,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem, “Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was an Amorite H567 and your mother a Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:45 - “You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite H567.

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“Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite H567 before them,

[fn]Though his height was like the height of cedars,

And he was strong as the oaks;

I even destroyed his fruit above and his root below.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:10 -

“And it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,

And I led you in the wilderness forty years

[fn]That you might take possession of the land of the Amorite H567.


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