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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 - The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi[fn]; he is the father of the Ammonites[fn] of today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:24 - Israel, however, put him to the sword and took over his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, but only as far as the Ammonites, because their border was fortified.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:19 - When you come to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war, for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - But in accordance with the command of the LORD our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11 - (Og king of Bashan was the last of the Rephaites. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide.[fn] It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:16 - But to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory extending from Gilead down to the Arnon Gorge (the middle of the gorge being the border) and out to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge—from the middle of the gorge—to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. This included half of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - and all the towns of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, out to the border of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:25 - The territory of Jazer, all the towns of Gilead and half the Ammonite country as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13 - Getting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:6 - Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook the LORD and no longer served him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:7 - he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9 - The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim; Israel was in great distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:11 - The LORD replied, “When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:17 - When the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:18 - The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, “Whoever will take the lead in attacking the Ammonites will be head over all who live in Gilead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:4 - Some time later, when the Ammonites were fighting against Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5 - the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:6 - “Come,” they said, “be our commander, so we can fight the Ammonites.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:8 - The elders of Gilead said to him, “Nevertheless, we are turning to you now; come with us to fight the Ammonites, and you will be head over all of us who live in Gilead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - Jephthah answered, “Suppose you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me—will I really be your head?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12 - Then Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king with the question: “What do you have against me that you have attacked my country?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peaceably.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:14 - Jephthah sent back messengers to the Ammonite king,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:15 - saying: “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let the LORD, the Judge, decide the dispute this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:28 - The king of Ammon, however, paid no attention to the message Jephthah sent him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:29 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: “If you give the Ammonites into my hands,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me just as you promised, now that the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - The Ephraimite forces were called out, and they crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We’re going to burn down your house over your head.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - Jephthah answered, “I and my people were engaged in a great struggle with the Ammonites, and although I called, you didn’t save me out of their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:3 - When I saw that you wouldn’t help, I took my life in my hands and crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave me the victory over them. Now why have you come up today to fight me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:11 - The next day Saul separated his men into three divisions; during the last watch of the night they broke into the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them 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 when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we want a king to rule over us’—even though the LORD your God was your king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47 - After Saul had assumed rule over Israel, he fought against their enemies on every side: Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the kings[fn] of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment on them.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:12 - Edom[fn] and Moab, the Ammonites and the Philistines, and Amalek. He also dedicated the plunder taken from Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:1 - In the course of time, the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun succeeded him as king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:2 - David thought, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David’s men came to the land of the Ammonites,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:3 - the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think David is honoring your father by sending envoys to you to express sympathy? Hasn’t David sent them to you only to explore the city and spy it out and overthrow it?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:6 - When the Ammonites realized that they had become obnoxious to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth Rehob and Zobah, as well as the king of Maakah with a thousand men, and also twelve thousand men from Tob.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:8 - The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance of their city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maakah were by themselves in the open country.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:10 - He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother and deployed them against the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:11 - Joab said, “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to come to my rescue; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:14 - When the Ammonites realized that the Arameans were fleeing, they fled before Abishai and went inside the city. So Joab returned from fighting the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:19 - When all the kings who were vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been routed by Israel, they made peace with the Israelites and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:1 - In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

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