amaleki · Amalekite

What it means

amaleki (עֲמָלֵקִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Amalekite”.

(s): a nomadic people of southern Canaan, enemies of Israel from the exodus onward.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A man of Amalek, a people hostile to Israel who attacked it in the wilderness.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Amalekites ×9
• Amalekite ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×3
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×5
• 2 Samuel×2

• Genesis 14:7

  Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh) and defeated the whole territory of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

• Numbers 14:25

  Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valley. Tomorrow turn and set out for yourselves into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds.”

• Numbers 14:43

  For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword; because you have turned back from following YHWH, YHWH will not be with you.”

• Numbers 14:45

  Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country, and struck them and crushed them as far as Hormah.

• Judges 12:15

  And Abdon son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

• 1 Samuel 15:6

  Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, turn aside, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I remove you with them; for you showed loyal love to all the sons of Israel when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites turned aside from among Amalek.

• 1 Samuel 15:15

  Saul said, “From the Amalekites they have brought them, for the people spared the best of the flock and the herd in order to sacrifice to YHWH your Elohim; and the rest we have devoted to destruction.”

• 1 Samuel 27:8

  David and his men would go up and raid the Geshurites, the Gizrites, and the Amalekites, for these inhabited the land from of old, as you go toward Shur and as far as the land of Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 30:1

  When David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had raided against the Negev and against Ziklag, and they had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire.

• 1 Samuel 30:13

  David said to him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” He said, “I am an Egyptian young man, slave of an Amalekite man; my master left me because I fell sick three days ago.

• 2 Samuel 1:8

  He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ And I said to him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’

• 2 Samuel 1:13

  David said to the young man who was reporting it to him, “From where are you?” He said, “I am the son of a man, a resident alien, an Amalekite.”