amoni · Ammonite

What it means

amoni (עַמּוֹנִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Ammonite”.

A descendant of Ammon, the son of Lot.

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 the people of Ammon, a neighbor of Israel, descended from Lot.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Ammonite ×12
• Ammonites ×5

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×6

• Deuteronomy 2:20

  (It too was counted as a land of Rephaim; Rephaim lived there formerly, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

• Deuteronomy 23:3

  An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter the assembly of YHWH; even to the tenth generation none of theirs shall enter the assembly of YHWH, forever,

• 1 Samuel 11:1

  Nahash the Ammonite went up and camped against Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”

• 1 Samuel 11:2

  Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a covenant with you: by gouging out every right eye of yours, and I will put it as a reproach on all Israel.”

• 2 Samuel 23:37

  Zelek the Ammonite; Naharai the Beerothite, who carried the armor of Joab son of Zeruiah;

• 1 Kings 11:1

  And King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

• 1 Kings 11:5

  And Solomon went after Astarte, the god of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the detestable thing of the Ammonites.

• 1 Chronicles 11:39

  Zelek the Ammonite; Naharai the Beerothite, who carried the armor of Joab son of Zeruiah;

• 2 Chronicles 20:1

  And it happened after this that the sons of Moab and the sons of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

• 2 Chronicles 26:8

  The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah, and his name went as far as the entrance of Egypt, for he had become strong exceedingly.

• Ezra 9:1

  And when these things were finished, the officials approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite.

• Nehemiah 2:10

  And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard, and it seemed to them a great evil that a man had come to seek the good of the sons of Israel.

• Nehemiah 2:19

  But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, and they mocked us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

• Nehemiah 4:3

  And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Even what they are building— if a fox goes up, it will make a breach in the wall of their stones.”

• Nehemiah 4:7

  It happened that when Sanballat and Tobiah, and the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward, that the breaches had begun to be closed, they burned with anger greatly;

• Nehemiah 13:1

  On that day it was read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people, and there was found written in it that an Ammonite or a Moabite should not enter the assembly of Elohim forever,

• Nehemiah 13:23

  Also in those days I saw the Jews who had married Ashdodite, Ammonite, and Moabite women.