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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 H567 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 [fn]conquered all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, H567 who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13 - Then [fn]a fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he was [fn]living by the [fn]oaks of Mamre the Amorite, H567 brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and these were [fn]allies with Abram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:16 - “Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite H567 is not yet complete.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:21 - and the Amorite H567 and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:22 - “I give you one [fn]portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite H567 with my sword and my bow.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - “So I have come down to deliver them from the [fn]power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite H567 and the Perizzite and 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 affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite H567 and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - “It shall be when the LORD brings you to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, H567 the Hivite and the Jebusite, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall [fn]observe this rite in this month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:23 - “For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, H567 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will 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, H567 the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:11 - “[fn]Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold, I am going to drive out the Amorite H567 before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - “Amalek is living in the land of the Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites H567 are living in the hill country, and the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - From there they journeyed and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites, H567 for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. H567

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:21 - Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, H567 saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:25 - Israel took all these cities and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, H567 in Heshbon, and in all her [fn]villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26 - For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, H567 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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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:29 - “Woe to you, O Moab!
You are ruined, O people of Chemosh!
He has given his sons as fugitives,
And his daughters into captivity,
To an Amorite H567 king, Sihon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:31 - Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. H567

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:32 - Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites H567 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 given him into your hand, and all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, H567 who lived at Heshbon.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:2 - Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. H567

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Joseph’s son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites H567 and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities with their [fn]territories, the cities of the surrounding land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:39 - The sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites H567 who were in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:4 - after he had [fn]defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, H567 who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth [fn]and Edrei.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - ‘Turn and set your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, H567 and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the [fn]Negev and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:19 - “Then we set out from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, H567 just as the LORD our God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:20 - “I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites H567 which the LORD our God is about to give us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:27 - and you grumbled in your tents and said, ‘Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites H567 to destroy us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:44 - “The Amorites H567 who [fn]lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do, and crushed you from Seir to Hormah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:24 - ‘Arise, set out, and pass through the [fn]valley of Arnon. Look! I have given Sihon the Amorite, H567 king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; begin to take possession and contend with him in battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:2 - “But the LORD said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, H567 who lived at Heshbon.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:8 - “Thus we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites H567 who were beyond the Jordan, from the [fn]valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:9 - (Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites H567 call it Senir):

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46 - across the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites H567 who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel [fn]defeated when they came out from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:47

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, H567 who were across the Jordan to the [fn]east,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1 - “When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites H567 and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:17 - “But you shall [fn]utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, H567 the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:4 - “The LORD will do to them just as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, H567 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 before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites H567 who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you [fn]utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:10 - Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will assuredly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, H567 and the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 - Now it came about when all the kings of the Amorites H567 who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the sons of Israel until [fn]they had crossed, that their hearts melted, and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:7 - Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord [fn]GOD, why did You ever bring this people over the Jordan, only to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, H567 to destroy us? If only we had been willing [fn]to dwell beyond the Jordan!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:1 - Now it came about when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country and in the lowland and on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, H567 the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, heard of it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:10 - and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites H567 who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan who was at Ashtaroth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:5 - So the five kings of the Amorites, H567 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 camped by Gibeon and fought against it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:6 - Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Do not [fn]abandon your servants; come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites H567 that live in the hill country have assembled against us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:12 - Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites H567 before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel,
“O sun, stand still at Gibeon,
And O moon in the valley of Aijalon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:3 - to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite H567 and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite [fn]at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sihon king of the Amorites, H567 who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, both the middle of the valley and half of Gilead, even as far as the brook Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;

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