Amorite
אֱמֹרִיStrong’s H0567emori (e-mo-ri)
Appears in 86 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Emori is the Hebrew word usually translated “amorite” and “amorites”. It appears in 86 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,”
Meaning
- Someone descended from Amor(?), first mentioned at Gen.10.16; descended from Canaan (H3667); along with Sidon (H6721), Heth (H2845), Jebusite (H2983), Girgashite (H1622), Hivite (H2340), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H0721), Zemarite (H6786) and Hamathite (H2577)
How it's translated
- the amorite 68
- and the amorite 13
- amorite 2
- the amorites 2
- to the amorite 1
- an amorite 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 20
- Deuteronomy 15
- Numbers 12
- Judges 11
- Genesis 6
- Exodus 6
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 14:7And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
- Genesis 14:13And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
- Genesis 15:16But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
- Genesis 15:21And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
- Genesis 48:22Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
- Exodus 3:8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Hebrew dictionary
אֱמֹרִי emori · Amorite
Someone descended from Amor(?), first mentioned at Gen.10.16; descended from Canaan (H3667); along with Sidon (H6721), Heth (H2845), Jebusite (H2983), Girgashite (H1622), Hivite (H2340), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H0721), Zemarite (H6786) and Hamathite (H2577) § Amorite = "a sayer" one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.