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Lexicon :: Strong's H567 - 'ĕmōrî

Aa
אֱמֹרִי
Transliteration
'ĕmōrî
Pronunciation
em-o-ree'
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Part of Speech
collective masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from אָמַר (H559) in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence
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TWOT Reference: 119

Strong’s Definitions

אֱמֹרִי ʼĔmôrîy, em-o-ree'; probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from H559 in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence; thus, a mountaineer; an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes:—Amorite.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x

The KJV translates Strong's H567 in the following manner: Amorite (87x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x
The KJV translates Strong's H567 in the following manner: Amorite (87x).

  1. Amorite = "a sayer"

    1. one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֱמֹרִי ʼĔmôrîy, em-o-ree'; probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from H559 in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence; thus, a mountaineer; an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes:—Amorite.
STRONGS H567: Abbreviations
אֱמֹרִי proper name, masculine collective (construed as plural Deuteronomy 3:9 + 5 times) Amorites (perhaps = mountain-dwellers, compare Numbers 13:29; Deuteronomy 1:7, Deuteronomy 1:19f. etc. & Di Genesis 10:16 and elsewhere) **meaning mountain-dwellers very dubious; on א׳ = Egyptian 'A-ma-ra see WMMAs. u. Eur. 229 ff., = Tel Amarna and Assyrian Amurru, see WklTelAm. 36* JastrEB CANAAN, § 10 SayHast.DB AMORITES and others; compare also GFMJudg 4:5 DrDt l.7 GrayNum 13:29. — always with article, except Numbers 21:29; Ezekiel 16:45.
1. called son of Canaan Genesis 10:16 (J) 1 Chronicles 1:14 =
2. a chief people dispossessed by Hebrews;
(a) living east of Jordan Numbers 21:13 (twice in verse); Numbers 21:25 + 9 times Numbers + Joshua 24:8 (all E), compare Joshua 2:10; Joshua 9:10 (JE) Deuteronomy 1:4; Deuteronomy 3:2, 9 + 7 times D; also Judges 10:8, 11; Judges 11:19, 21, 23 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 4:19; Psalm 135:11; Psalm 136:19 (Sihon their king Numbers 21:1 +; Sihon & Og Deuteronomy 3:8 +);
(b) living west of Jordan Joshua 10:5, 6; Joshua 24:12, 15, 18 (all E), compare Joshua 7:7 (JE); Joshua 5:1; Joshua 10:12 (both D; compare also Joshua 13:4, q. strike out Di) Judges 1:34, 35, 36; Judges 6:10; 1 Kings 21:26; 2 Kings 21:11 compare 1 Samuel 21:2;
(c) living in south Deuteronomy 1:7, 19, 20, 27, 44; compare Genesis 14:7 (west of Dead Sea);
(d) in general = ancient inhabitants of Canaan Genesis 15:16 (J or R) Genesis 48:22 (E) Amos 2:9, 10;
(e) named in list of Canaanitish peoples, to be dispossessed by Israel Exodus 3:8, 17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 33:2; Exodus 34:11; Joshua 3:10; Joshua 9:1 (all J); Deuteronomy 7:1; Deuteronomy 20:17; Joshua 11:3; Joshua 12:8 (all D); Exodus 23:23; Numbers 13:29; Joshua 24:11 (all E); Judges 3:5; 1 Kings 9:20; 2 Chronicles 8:7; Ezra 9:1; Nehemiah 9:8; compare Ezekiel 16:3, 45; (on these lists compare BuUrgesch 344 ff. & WeJBTh xxi. 602.)
3. adjective, of a people singular Genesis 14:13 Deuteronomy 2:24.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:16; 10:16; 14:7; 14:13; 15:16; 48:22

Exodus

3:8; 3:17; 13:5; 23:23; 33:2; 34:11

Numbers

13:29; 13:29; 13:29; 21:1; 21:13; 21:25; 21:29

Deuteronomy

1:4; 1:7; 1:7; 1:19; 1:19; 1:20; 1:27; 1:44; 2:24; 3:2; 3:8; 3:9; 3:9; 7:1; 20:17

Joshua

2:10; 3:10; 5:1; 7:7; 9:1; 9:10; 10:5; 10:6; 10:12; 11:3; 12:8; 13:4; 24:8; 24:11; 24:12; 24:15; 24:18

Judges

1:34; 1:35; 1:36; 3:5; 4:5; 6:10; 10:8; 10:11; 11:19; 11:21; 11:23

1 Samuel

21:2

1 Kings

4:19; 9:20; 21:26

2 Kings

21:11

1 Chronicles

1:14

2 Chronicles

8:7

Ezra

9:1

Nehemiah

9:8

Psalms

135:11; 136:19

Ezekiel

16:3; 16:45; 16:45

Amos

2:9; 2:10

H567

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Strong's Number H567 matches the Hebrew אֱמֹרִי ('ĕmōrî),
which occurs 87 times in 86 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 2 (Jos 12:8–Amo 2:10)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8 - The lands included the hill country, the western foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes, the wilderness and the Negev. These were the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. These were the kings:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:4 - on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, from Arah of the Sidonians as far as Aphek and the border of the Amorites;

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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 13:21 - all the towns on the plateau and the entire realm of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled at Heshbon. Moses had defeated him and the Midianite chiefs, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—princes allied with Sihon—who lived in that country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:8 - “ ‘I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I gave them into your hands. I destroyed them from before you, and you took possession of their land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:11 - “ ‘Then you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The citizens of Jericho fought against you, as did also the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites and Jebusites, but I gave them into your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12 - I sent the hornet ahead of you, which drove them out before you—also the two Amorite kings. You did not do it with your own sword and bow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:18 - And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites, who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because he is our God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:34 - The Amorites confined the Danites to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:35 - And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres, Aijalon and Shaalbim, but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36 - The boundary of the Amorites was from Scorpion Pass to Sela and beyond.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:5 - The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:10 - I said to you, ‘I am the LORD your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.’ But you have not listened to me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:8 - who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19 - “Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, ‘Let us pass through your country to our own place.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:21 - “Then the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and his whole army into Israel’s hands, and they defeated them. Israel took over all the land of the Amorites who lived in that country,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:22 - capturing all of it from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the desert to the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:23 - “Now since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven the Amorites out before his people Israel, what right have you to take it over?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:14 - The towns from Ekron to Gath that the Philistines had captured from Israel were restored to Israel, and Israel delivered the neighboring territory from the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:2 - The king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites; the Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel and Judah had tried to annihilate them.)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:19 - Geber son of Uri—in Gilead (the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and the country of Og king of Bashan). He was the only governor over the district.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:20 - There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites).

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:26 - He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the LORD drove out before Israel.)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - “Manasseh king of Judah has committed these detestable sins. He has done more evil than the Amorites who preceded him and has led Judah into sin with his idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:14 - Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:7 - There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites).

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:1 - After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:8 - You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites. You have kept your promise because you are righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:11 - Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan—

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:19 - Sihon king of the Amorites

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:45

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:45 - You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:9 - “Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them, though they were tall as the cedars and strong as the oaks. I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:10 - I brought you up out of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness to give you the land of the Amorites.

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