Amalekite
עֲמָלֵקִיStrong’s H6003amaleqi (a-ma-le-qi)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amaleqi is the Hebrew word usually translated “amalekite” and “from amalekite”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- Someone descended from Amekek
How it's translated
- the amalekite 4
- and the amalekite 2
- amalekite 2
- an amalekite 2
- from amalekite 1
- and amalekite 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 5
- Numbers 3
- 2 Samuel 2
- Genesis 1
- Judges 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 14:25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
- Numbers 14:43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
- Numbers 14:45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
- Judges 12:15And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.
- 1 Samuel 15:6And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
- 1 Samuel 15:15And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Hebrew dictionary
עֲמָלֵקִי amaleqi · Amalekite
Someone descended from Amekek Group of a.ma.leq (עֲמָלֵק "Amalek" H6002) § Amalekite, of Amalek "people of lapping" descendants of Amalek, the grandson of Esau
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.