amasa · Amasa

What it means

amasa (עֲמָשָׂא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Amasa”.

The name of two men: the son of Ithra and Abigail, David's nephew, whom Absalom put at the head of his army and whom Joab later killed (2 Samuel 17–20); and a chief of Ephraim in the time of King Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:12). The lexicon relates the name to "burden."

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.

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×11
• 1 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×1

• 2 Samuel 17:25

  Absalom had set Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who had gone in to Abigail daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.

• 2 Samuel 19:13

  And to Amasa say, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? So may Elohim do to me, and so may he add, if you do not become commander of the army before me all the days in place of Joab.’”

• 2 Samuel 20:4

  The king said to Amasa, “Call out for me the men of Judah within three days, and you be present here.”

• 2 Samuel 20:5

  Amasa went to call out Judah, but he delayed beyond the appointed time that he had appointed him.

• 2 Samuel 20:8

  They were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, and Amasa came before them. Joab was girded with the garment he wore, and over it was a belt with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went out, it fell out.

• 2 Samuel 20:9

  Joab said to Amasa, “Are you well, my brother?” And Joab’s right hand took hold of Amasa’s beard to kiss him.

• 2 Samuel 20:10

  But Amasa did not guard himself against the sword that was in the hand of Joab, and he struck him with it in the belly and poured out his entrails on the ground, and he did not repeat the blow on him, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba son of Bichri.

• 2 Samuel 20:12

  Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stopped, he moved Amasa from the highway into the field and threw a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stopped.

• 1 Kings 2:5

  Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner son of Ner and to Amasa son of Jether, whom he killed, and he set the blood of war in time of peace and put the blood of war on his belt that was around his waist and on his sandal that were on his feet.

• 1 Kings 2:32

  And YHWH will bring back his blood on his head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword, while my father David did not know it: Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

• 1 Chronicles 2:17

  And Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

• 2 Chronicles 28:12

  Some men of the heads of the sons of Ephraim, Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, and Hezekiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai, rose up against those coming from the army,

And 4 more times.