Meunite
עַמּוֹנִיStrong’s H5984ammoni (am-mo-ni)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ammoni is the Hebrew word usually translated “ammonite”, “ammonites” and “some of the ammonites”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;”
Meaning
- Someone descended from Meunit(?) of the Canaanites, first mentioned at 1Ch.4.41
How it's translated
- the ammonite 12
- and the ammonites 2
- an ammonite 2
- ammonite 2
- ammonites 1
- some of the ammonites 1
- the ammonites 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 6
- 1 Kings 4
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Deuteronomy 2
- 1 Samuel 2
- 2 Samuel 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 23:3An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
- 1 Samuel 11:1Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
- 1 Samuel 11:2And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
- 2 Samuel 23:37Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
- 1 Kings 11:1But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
- 1 Kings 11:5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
Hebrew dictionary
עַמּוֹנִי ammoni · Meunite
Someone descended from Meunit(?) of the Canaanites, first mentioned at 1Ch.4.41 Group of me.u.ni (מְעוּנִים "Meunite" H4586) § Ammonite, of Ammon "tribal" descendants of Ammon and inhabitants of Ammon
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ammonite” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AM'MONITE, noun
[Cornu ammonis, from Jupiter Ammon, whose statues were represented with ram's horns.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.