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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 2 / 2 (2Sa 12:9–Zep 2:9)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:26 - Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:31 - And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at[fn] the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:27 - When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - because they have[fn] forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:2 - And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by his servants the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:11 - These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:1 - Now after this Nahash the king of the Ammonites died, and his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:2 - And David said, “I will deal kindly with Hanun the son of Nahash, for his father dealt kindly with me.” So David sent messengers to console him concerning his father. And David’s servants came to the land of the Ammonites to Hanun to console him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:3 - But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Have not his servants come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:6 - When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents[fn] of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah, and from Zobah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:7 - They hired 32,000 chariots and the king of Maacah with his army, who came and encamped before Medeba. And the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and came to battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:9 - And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the city, and the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:11 - The rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and they were arrayed against the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:12 - And he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will help you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:15 - And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, Joab’s brother, and entered the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:19 - And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So the Syrians were not willing to save the Ammonites anymore.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 20:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:1 - In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged the country of the Ammonites and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. And Joab struck down Rabbah and overthrew it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:3 - And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor[fn] with saws and iron picks and axes.[fn] And thus David did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:1 - After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites,[fn] came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:10 - And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy—

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:22 - And when they began to sing and praise, the LORD set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 27:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:5 - He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year 100 talents[fn] of silver, and 10,000 cors[fn] of wheat and 10,000 of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:7 - Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14 - But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west,
and together they shall plunder the people of the east.
They shall put out their hand against Edom and Moab,
and the Ammonites shall obey them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26 - Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:21 - Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:3 - Send word[fn] to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:11 - Likewise, when all the Judeans who were in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and in other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 40:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:14 - and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:10 - Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king’s daughters and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and set out to cross over to the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:15 - But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:1 - Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the LORD:
“Has Israel no sons?
Has he no heir?
Why then has Milcom[fn] dispossessed Gad,
and his people settled in its cities?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:2 - Therefore, behold, the days are coming,
declares the LORD,
when I will cause the battle cry to be heard
against Rabbah of the Ammonites;
it shall become a desolate mound,
and its villages shall be burned with fire;
then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him,
says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:6 - “But afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites, declares the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:20 - Mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:28 - “And you, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; say, A sword, a sword is drawn for the slaughter. It is polished to consume and to flash like lightning—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:2 - “Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:3 - Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Because you said, ‘Aha!’ over my sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5 - I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon[fn] a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10 - I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - He shall come into the glorious land. And tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the main part of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:13 - Thus says the LORD:
“For three transgressions of the Ammonites,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead,
that they might enlarge their border.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:8 - “I have heard the taunts of Moab
and the revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people
and made boasts against their territory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9 - Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become like Sodom,
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”

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