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Lexicon :: Strong's H5983 - ʿammôn

Aa
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 1 / 2 (Gen 19:38–2Sa 11:1)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:38 - And the younger had a son and gave him the name Ben-ammi: from him come the children of Ammon to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:24 - But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the country of the children of Ammon, for the country of the children of Ammon was strongly armed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:19 - And when you come near the land of the children of Ammon, give them no cause of trouble and do not make war on them, for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for your heritage: because I have given it to the children of Lot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - But you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon, that is, all the side of the river Jabbok or the towns of the hill-country, wherever the Lord our God had said we were not to go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11 - (For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:16 - And the land from Gilead to the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a limit, as far as the river Jabbok which is the limit of the country of the children of Ammon, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was living in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, as far as the river Jabbok, the limits of the children of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - And all the towns of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, to the limits of the children of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:25 - And their limit was Jazer, and all the towns of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer before Rabbah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13 - And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:6 - And again the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, worshipping the Baals and Astartes, and the gods of Aram and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines; they gave up the Lord and were servants to him no longer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:7 - And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9 - And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:11 - And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Were not the Egyptians and the Amorites and the children of Ammon and the Philistines

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:17 - Then the children of Ammon came together and put their army in position in Gilead. And the children of Israel came together and put their army in position in Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:18 - And the people of Israel said to one another, Who will be the first to make an attack on the children of Ammon? We will make him head over all Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:4 - Now after a time the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5 - And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the responsible men of Gilead went to get Jephthah back from the land of Tob;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:6 - And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:8 - And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, That is the reason we have come back to you; so go with us and make war against the children of Ammon, and we will make you our head over all the people of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - Then Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, If you take me back to make war against the children of Ammon, and if with the help of the Lord I overcome them, will you make me your head?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12 - Then Jephthah sent men to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you against me that you have come to make war against my land?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - And the king of the children of Ammon said to the men sent by Jephthah, Because Israel, when he came up out of Egypt, took away my land, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and as far as Jordan: so now, give me back those lands quietly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:14 - And Jephthah sent again to the king of the children of Ammon,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:15 - And said to him, This is the word of Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the children of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - So I have done no wrong against you, but you are doing wrong to me in fighting against me: may the Lord, who is Judge this day, be judge between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:28 - The king of the children of Ammon, however, did not give ear to the words which Jephthah sent to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:29 - Then the spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, and he went through Gilead and Manasseh, and came to Mizpeh of Gilead; and from Mizpeh of Gilead he went over to the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - And Jephthah took an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give the children of Ammon into my hands,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - Then whoever comes out from the door of my house, meeting me when I come back in peace from the children of Ammon, will be the Lord's and I will give him as a burned offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - So Jephthah went over to the children of Ammon to make war on them; and the Lord gave them into his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And he made an attack on them from Aroer all the way to Minnith, overrunning twenty towns, as far as Abel-cheramim, and put great numbers to the sword. So the children of Ammon were crushed before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - And she said to him, My father, you have made an oath to the Lord; do then to me whatever you have said; for the Lord has sent a full reward on your haters, on the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - Now the men of Ephraim came together and took up arms and went over to Zaphon; and they said to Jephthah, Why did you go over to make war against the children of Ammon without sending for us to go with you? Now we will put your house on fire over you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were in danger, and the children of Ammon were very cruel to us, and when I sent for you, you gave me no help against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:3 - So when I saw that there was no help to be had from you, I put my life in my hand and went over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord gave them into my hands: why then have you come up to me this day to make war on me?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:11 - Now on the day after, Saul put the people into three bands, and in the morning watch they came to the tents of the Ammonites, and they went on attacking them till the heat of the day: and those who were not put to death were put to flight in every direction, so that no two of them were together.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:12 - And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47 - Now when Saul had taken his place as ruler of Israel, he made war on those who were against him on every side, Moab and the Ammonites and Edom and the kings of Zobah and the Philistines: and whichever way he went, he overcame them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:12 - The nations of Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon and the Philistines and the Amalekites and the goods he had taken from Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:1 - Now after this, death came to the king of the children of Ammon, and Hanun, his son, became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:2 - And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father was a friend to me. So David sent his servants, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:3 - But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father by sending comforters to you? has he not sent his servants to go through the town and make secret observation of it, and overcome it?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:6 - And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves hated by David, they sent to the Aramaeans of Beth-rehob and Zobah, and got for payment twenty thousand footmen, and they got from the king of Maacah a thousand men, and from Tob twelve thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:8 - And the children of Ammon came out and put their forces in position at the way into the town: and the Aramaeans of Zobah and of Rehob, with the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:10 - And the rest of the people he put in position against the children of Ammon, with Abishai, his brother, at their head.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:11 - And he said, If the Aramaeans are stronger and get the better of me, then you are to come to my help; but if the children of Ammon get the better of you, I will come to your help.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:14 - And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the Aramaeans, they themselves went in flight from Abishai, and came into the town. So Joab went back from fighting the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:19 - And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they were overcome by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became their servants. So the Aramaeans, in fear, gave no more help to the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:1 - Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab and his servants and all Israel with him; and they made waste the land of the children of Ammon, and took up their position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem.

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