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Lexicon :: Strong's H6021 - ʿămāśā'

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עֲמָשָׂא
Transliteration
ʿămāśā'
Pronunciation
am-aw-saw'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

עֲמָשָׂא ʻĂmâsâʼ, am-aw-saw'; from H6006; burden; Amasa, the name of two Israelites:—Amasa.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's H6021 in the following manner: Amasa (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's H6021 in the following manner: Amasa (16x).

  1. Amasa = "burden"

    1. son of Ithra or Jether by Abigail the sister of David and general of the army of Absalom

    2. son of Hadlai and a prince of Ephraim in the reign of king Ahaz

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֲמָשָׂא ʻĂmâsâʼ, am-aw-saw'; from H6006; burden; Amasa, the name of two Israelites:—Amasa.
STRONGS H6021: Abbreviations
עֲמָשָׂא16 proper name, masculine (compare עמס, ענשׂ ? or read עַמִּשַׂי (II. עַם + יִשַׂי), WeIsrael u. Jüd. Geschichte. 24, compare GrayProp. N. 44, 323); —
1. Absalom's general 2 Samuel 17:25 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 19:14 + 8 times 2 Samuel 20; 1 Kings 2:5, 32; 1 Chronicles 2:17 (twice in verse), Greek Version of the LXX Αμεσς(α)ει, LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Αμεσσα.
2. Ephraimite 2 Chronicles 28:12.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Samuel

17:25; 19:14; 20

1 Kings

2:5; 2:32

1 Chronicles

2:17

2 Chronicles

28:12

H6021

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6021 matches the Hebrew עֲמָשָׂא (ʿămāśā'),
which occurs 16 times in 12 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:25 - Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite,[fn] who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:13 - And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:4 - Then the king said to Amasa, “Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:5 - So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he delayed beyond the set time that had been appointed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:8 - When they were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was wearing a soldier’s garment, and over it was a belt with a sword in its sheath fastened on his thigh, and as he went forward it fell out.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:9 - And Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:10 - But Amasa did not observe the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So Joab struck him with it in the stomach and spilled his entrails to the ground without striking a second blow, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:12 - And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped. And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field and threw a garment over him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:5 - “Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging[fn] in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war[fn] on the belt around his[fn] waist and on the sandals on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:32 - The LORD will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:17 - Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:12 - Certain chiefs also of the men of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who were coming from the war
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