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Lexicon :: Strong's H5983 - ʿammôn

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עַמּוֹן
Transliteration
ʿammôn
Pronunciation
am-mone'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1642

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: עמון.

Strong’s Definitions

עַמּוֹן ʻAmmôwn, am-mone'; from H5971; tribal, i.e. inbred; Ammon, a son of Lot; also his posterity and their country:—Ammon, Ammonites.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 105x

The KJV translates Strong's H5983 in the following manner: Ammon (90x), Ammonites (with H1121) (13x), Ammonites (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 105x
The KJV translates Strong's H5983 in the following manner: Ammon (90x), Ammonites (with H1121) (13x), Ammonites (2x).

  1. Ammon = "tribal"

    1. a people dwelling in Transjordan descended from Lot through Ben-ammi

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עַמּוֹן ʻAmmôwn, am-mone'; from H5971; tribal, i.e. inbred; Ammon, a son of Lot; also his posterity and their country:—Ammon, Ammonites.
STRONGS H5983: Abbreviations
עַמּוֹן 106 proper name, of a people Ammon, Greek Version of the LXX Αμμαν, Αμμων (Assyrian Bît Ammanu COTGlossary); always (except 1 Samuel 11:11 [where however Greek Version of the LXX reads בְּנֵי ע׳], Psalm 83:8, which have ע׳ alone) בְּנֵי עַמּוֹן, connected by J with בֶּןעַֿמִּי son of Lot Genesis 19:38 (and meaning of name doubtless sought herein by J; compare II. עַם); people apparently akin to Israel, but usually hostile, dwelling east of Jordan, northeast of Moab, between Arnon and Jabbok: Numbers 21:24 (twice in verse) (JE), Deuteronomy 2:19 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 2:37; Deuteronomy 3:11, 16; Joshua 12:2; Joshua 13:10 (D), Joshua 13:25 (P), Judges 3:13; Judges 10:6 + 25 times Judges 10-12, 1 Samuel 11:11; 1 Samuel 12:12; 1 Samuel 14:47; 2 Samuel 8:12; 2 Samuel 10:1 + 14 times 2 Samuel 10-12; 2 Samuel 17:27; 1 Kings 11:7, 33; 2 Kings 23:13; 2 Kings 24:2; 1 Chronicles 18:11 + 20 times Chronicles, Amos 1:13; Isaiah 11:14; Jeremiah 9:25 + 9 times Jeremiah, Zephaniah 2:8, 9; Ezekiel 21:25; Ezekiel 21:33 + 5 times Ezekiel 25; Daniel 11:41. — See CheAmmon in Ency. Bib.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

19:38

Numbers

21:24

Deuteronomy

2:19; 2:37; 3:11; 3:16

Joshua

12:2; 13:10; 13:25

Judges

3:13; 10; 10:6; 11; 12

1 Samuel

11:11; 11:11; 12:12; 14:47

2 Samuel

8:12; 10; 10:1; 11; 12; 17:27

1 Kings

11:7; 11:33

2 Kings

23:13; 24:2

1 Chronicles

18:11

Psalms

83:8

Isaiah

11:14

Jeremiah

9:25

Ezekiel

21:25; 25

Daniel

11:41

Amos

1:13

Zephaniah

2:8; 2:9

H5983

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Strong's Number H5983 matches the Hebrew עַמּוֹן (ʿammôn),
which occurs 106 times in 98 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 19:38–2Sa 11:1)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:38 - The younger also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-ammi (son of my people); he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:24 - Then Israel struck the king of the Amorites with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonites, for the boundary of the Ammonites was [fn]strong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:19 - ‘When you come opposite the territory of the sons of [fn]Ammon, do not harass them nor provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot as a possession.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - “Only you did not go near the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the river [fn]Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the LORD our God had forbidden us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11 - (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the [giants known as the] Rephaim. Behold, his bed frame was a bed frame of iron; is it not in [fn]Rabbah of the Ammonites? It was nine cubits (12 ft.) long and four cubits (6 ft.) wide, using the cubit of a man [the forearm to the end of the middle finger].)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:16 - “To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of Arnon, with the middle of the Valley as a boundary, and as far as the Jabbok River, the boundary of the sons of Ammon;

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:25 - Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer east of Rabbah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13 - And Eglon gathered to him the sons of Ammon and Amalek, and went and struck down Israel [in defeat], and they took possession of the City of Palm Trees (Jericho).

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Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; they served the Baals, the Ashtaroth (female deities), the gods of Aram (Syria), the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned the LORD and did not serve Him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:7 - So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9 - The Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was greatly distressed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:11 - The LORD said to the Israelites, “Did I not rescue you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, and the Philistines?

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Then the Ammonites were assembled together and they camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel assembled and camped at Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:18 - The people, the leaders of Gilead (Israel) said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

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Now it happened after a while that the Ammonites fought against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5 - When the Ammonites fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:6 - and they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our leader, so that we may fight against the Ammonites.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:8 - The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “This is why we have turned to you now: that you may go with us and fight the Ammonites and become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you take me back [home] to fight against the Ammonites and the LORD gives them over to me, will I [really] become your head?”

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Now Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, “What is [the problem] between you and me, that you have come against me to fight in my land?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - The Ammonites’ king replied to the messengers of Jephthah, “It is because Israel took away [fn]my land when they came up from Egypt, from the [river] Arnon as far as the Jabbok and [east of] the Jordan; so now, return those lands peaceably.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:14 - But Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the Ammonites,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:15 - and they said to him, “This is what Jephthah says: ‘Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - ‘So I have not sinned against you, but you are doing me wrong by making war against me; may the LORD, the [righteous] Judge, judge this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:28 - But the king of the Ammonites disregarded the message of Jephthah, which he sent to him.

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Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, “If You will indeed give the Ammonites into my hand,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - then whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites, it shall be the LORD’S, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - Then Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight with them; and the LORD gave them into his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And from Aroer to the entrance of Minnith he struck them, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim (brook by the vineyard), with a very great defeat. So the Ammonites were subdued and humbled before the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - And she said to him, “My father, you have made a vow to the LORD; do to me as you have vowed, since the LORD has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, the Ammonites.”

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The men of [the tribe of] Ephraim were summoned [to action], and they crossed over to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight with the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? [For that] we will burn your house down upon you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - And Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were in a major conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called you [for help], you did not rescue me from their hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:3 - “So when I saw that you were not coming to help me, I took my life in my hands and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the LORD handed them over to me. So why have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:11 - The next morning Saul put the men into three companies; and they entered the [Ammonites’] camp during the [darkness of the early] morning watch and killed the Ammonites until the heat of the day; and the survivors were scattered, and no two of them were left together.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:12 - “But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites had come against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us’—although the LORD your God was your King.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47 -

When Saul assumed control of the kingdom of Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side: Moab, the sons (descendants) of Ammon, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:12 - from Aram (Syria), Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

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Now it happened later that [Nahash] the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:2 - Then David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, just as his father did to me.” So David sent [a letter along with] some of his servants to console him in regard to his father’s death; and David’s servants came into the land of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:3 - But the princes of the Ammonites [were suspicious and] said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David is honoring your father because he has sent comforters to you? Has David not sent his servants to you in order to search the city, to spy it out and overthrow it?”

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When the Ammonites saw that they had become an object of hatred to David, they sent word and hired the Arameans (Syrians) of Beth-rehob and the Arameans of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob with 12,000 men [to fight for them].

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:8 - The Ammonites came out and lined up for battle at the entrance of the [city] gate, but the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were [stationed] by themselves in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:10 - But he placed the rest of the men in the hand of his brother Abishai, and he placed them in battle formation to meet the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:11 - Joab said [to Abishai], “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, I will come to help you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:14 - When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they also fled before Abishai and entered the city. So Joab returned from battling against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:19 - When all the kings serving Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them. So the Arameans (Syrians) were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.

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Then it happened in the spring, [fn]at the time when the kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all [the fighting men of] Israel, and they destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.


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