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Lexicon :: Strong's H5983 - ʿammôn

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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 - As for the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the [fn]sons of Ammon H5983 to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:24 - Then Israel [fn]struck him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon H5983; for the border of the sons of Ammon H5983 was [fn]Jazer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:19 - ‘And you will come opposite the sons of Ammon H5983. Do not harass them nor provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon H5983 as a possession because I have given it to the sons of Lot as a possession.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - “Only you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon H5983, all along the [fn]river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God had commanded us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11 - (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his [fn]bedstead was an iron [fn]bedstead; it is in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon H5983. Its length was [fn]nine cubits, and its width four cubits [fn]by ordinary cubit.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:16 - “And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even as far as the [fn]valley of Arnon, the middle of the [fn]valley [fn]as a border and as far as the [fn]river Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon H5983;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, both the middle of the valley and half of Gilead, even as far as the brook Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon H5983;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon H5983;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:25 - And their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon H5983, as far as Aroer which is before Rabbah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13 - And he gathered to himself the sons of Ammon H5983 and Amalek; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of the palm trees.

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Then the sons of Israel again did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the sons of Ammon H5983, and the gods of the Philistines; thus they forsook Yahweh and did not serve Him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:7 - So the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the sons of Ammon H5983.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9 - Then the sons of Ammon H5983 crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was greatly distressed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:11 - Then Yahweh said to the sons of Israel, “Did I not save you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the sons of Ammon H5983, and the Philistines?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:17 -

Then the sons of Ammon H5983 were summoned, and they camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel gathered together and camped in Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:18 - And the people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the sons of Ammon H5983? He shall become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:4 -

Now it happened after a while that the sons of Ammon H5983 fought against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5 - So it happened that as the sons of Ammon H5983 fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:6 - and they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief that we may fight against the sons of Ammon H5983.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:8 - And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “For this reason we have now returned to you, that you may go with us and fight with the sons of Ammon H5983 and become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you take me back to fight against the sons of Ammon H5983 and Yahweh gives them up [fn]to me, will I become your head?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12 -

And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon H5983, saying, “What is between you and me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - Then the king of the sons of Ammon H5983 said to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when they came up from Egypt, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and the Jordan; so now, return them peaceably.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:14 - But Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the sons of Ammon H5983,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:15 - and they said to him, “Thus says Jephthah, ‘Israel did not take away the land of Moab nor the land of the sons of Ammon H5983.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - ‘I therefore have not sinned against you, but you are doing me evil by making war against me; may Yahweh, the Judge, judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon H5983.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:28 - But the king of the sons of Ammon H5983 did not listen to the words which Jephthah sent him.

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Now the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jephthah, so that he passed through Gilead and Manasseh; then he passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he went on to the sons of Ammon H5983.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - Then Jephthah made a vow to Yahweh and said, “If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon H5983 into my hand,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon H5983, it shall be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - So Jephthah crossed over to the sons of Ammon H5983 to fight against them; and Yahweh gave them into his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And he struck them with a very great slaughter from Aroer [fn]to the entrance of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim. So the sons of Ammon H5983 were subdued before the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - So she said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to vow to Yahweh; do to me according to what has gone out from your mouth, since Yahweh has avenged you of your enemies, the sons of Ammon H5983.”

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Then the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they crossed [fn]to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the sons of Ammon H5983, but did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - Then Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the sons of Ammon H5983. And I cried out to you, but you did not save me from their hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:3 - “And I saw that you would not save me, so I [fn]took my life in my hands and crossed over against the sons of Ammon H5983, and Yahweh gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:11 - Then the next morning Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp at the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites H5983 until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:12 - “But you saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon H5983 came against you, and you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ although Yahweh your God was your king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47 -

Now Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, and he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, the sons of Ammon H5983, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines; and wherever he turned, he [fn]inflicted punishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:12 - from [fn]Aram, Moab, the sons of Ammon H5983, the Philistines, Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

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Now it happened afterwards, that the king of the sons of Ammon H5983 died, and Hanun his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:2 - So David said, “I will show lovingkindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, just as his father showed lovingkindness to me.” So David sent to comfort him concerning his father by the hand of his servants. And David’s servants came to the land of the sons of Ammon H5983.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:3 - But the princes of the sons of Ammon H5983 said to Hanun their lord, “In your eyes, is David honoring your father because he has sent comforters to you? Has David not sent his servants to you in order to search the city, to spy it out and overthrow it?”

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Then the sons of Ammon H5983 saw that they had become odious to David. So the sons of Ammon H5983 sent and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob and the Arameans of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob with 12,000 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:8 - And the sons of Ammon H5983 came out and arranged themselves for battle at the entrance of the gate of the city. But the Arameans of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:10 - But the remainder of the people he put in the hand of Abishai his brother; and he arranged them to meet the sons of Ammon H5983.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:11 - And he said, “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you shall save me, but if the sons of Ammon H5983 are too strong for you, then I will come to save you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:14 - Now the sons of Ammon H5983 saw that the Arameans fled. So they also fled before Abishai and came into the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the sons of Ammon H5983 and came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:19 - Then all the kings, the servants of Hadadezer, saw that they were [fn]defeated by Israel. So they made peace with Israel and served them. And the Arameans were afraid to save the sons of Ammon H5983 anymore.

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Now it happened [fn]in the spring, at the time when [fn]kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon H5983 and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.


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