אֱמֹרִי
emori · Amorite
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H567 · appears 87 times in the Bible
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emori (אֱמֹרִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Amorite”.
One of the main peoples of Canaan before Israel.
How to say it
e·mo·ri
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
- One of the peoples of Canaan before Israel.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
Amorite: one of the peoples of Canaan and of the land east of the Jordan before Israel. It is a gentilic, the name of a people. BDB counts the Amorites among the descendants of Canaan.
- In the list of the peoples of the land Exodus 3:8Genesis 15:16
- The Amorite kings Sihon and Og Numbers 21:21Deuteronomy 1:4
- “The gods of the Amorite” Joshua 24:15Judges 6:10
- The Amorite in the prophets Amos 2:9Ezekiel 16:3
Historical and cultural background
Genesis 10:16 counts the Amorite among the descendants of Canaan. Genesis 15:16 says the land would not yet be given to Israel, “for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete”. East of the Jordan reigned Sihon, “king of the Amorites”, and Og (Deuteronomy 1:4).
How we translate it
“Amorite” 67 times and “Amorites” 20. The collective singular of the Hebrew is kept (“the Amorite”, Exodus 3:8) where it names the people, as in the other lists of peoples.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Amorite ×67
- Amorites ×20
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×6
- Exodus×6
- Numbers×13
- Deuteronomy×15
- Joshua×20
- Judges×11
- 1 Samuel×1
- 2 Samuel×1
- 1 Kings×3
- 2 Kings×1
- 1 Chronicles×1
- 2 Chronicles×1
- Ezra×1
- Nehemiah×1
- Psalms×2
- Ezekiel×2
- Amos×2
- Genesis 10:16
and the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,
- 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.
- Genesis 14:13
One who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they had a covenant with Abram.
- Genesis 15:16
And in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
- Genesis 15:21
the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
- Genesis 48:22
And I have given you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”
- Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to rescue them from the hand of Egypt and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exodus 3:17
and I have said: I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
- Exodus 13:5
When YHWH brings you to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall perform this service in this month.
- Exodus 23:23
For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I will wipe them out.
- Exodus 33:2
And I will send before you an angel, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exodus 34:11
Keep for yourself what I am commanding you today. Look, I am driving out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Numbers 13:29
Amalek lives in the land of the Negev; and the Hittite and the Jebusite and the Amorite live in the hill country; and the Canaanite lives by the sea and along the Jordan.”
- Numbers 21:13
From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the territory of the Amorite; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite.
- Numbers 21:21
And Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
- Numbers 21:25
And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon and in all its villages.
- Numbers 21:26
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, and he had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.
- Numbers 21:29
Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to the king of the Amorites, Sihon.
- Numbers 21:31
So Israel settled in the land of the Amorite.
- Numbers 21:32
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorite who were there.
- Numbers 21:34
But YHWH said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for into your hand I have given him and all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
- Numbers 22:2
And Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorite.
- Numbers 32:33
Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within their borders, the cities of the land all around.
- Numbers 32:39
The sons of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it and dispossessed the Amorite who was in it.
- Deuteronomy 1:4
after he had struck Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, in Edrei.
- Deuteronomy 1:7
Turn, set out, and go to the hill country of the Amorite and to all its neighbors, in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, in the Negev, and on the coast of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
- Deuteronomy 1:19
We set out from Horeb and went through all that great and fearsome wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorite, as YHWH our Elohim had commanded us, and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
- Deuteronomy 1:20
I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorite, which YHWH our Elohim is giving us.
- Deuteronomy 1:27
You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because of YHWH’s hatred for us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorite, to destroy us.
- Deuteronomy 1:44
Then the Amorite who lived in that hill country came out to meet you and chased you as bees do, and crushed you in Seir as far as Hormah.
- Deuteronomy 2:24
“Rise up, set out, and cross the Wadi Arnon. See, I have given into your hand Sihon, the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and provoke him to war.
- Deuteronomy 3:2
YHWH said to me, “Do not fear him, for into your hand I have given him and all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
- Deuteronomy 3:8
So at that time we took the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon
- Deuteronomy 3:9
(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir),
- Deuteronomy 4:46
beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 4:47
They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, toward the sunrise:
- Deuteronomy 7:1
When YHWH your Elohim brings you into the land into which you are going to take possession of it, and clears away many nations from before you —the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you—
- Deuteronomy 20:17
but you shall surely devote them to destruction: the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as YHWH your Elohim has commanded you,
- Deuteronomy 31:4
And YHWH will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he destroyed.
- Joshua 2:10
For we have heard how YHWH dried up the water of the Sea of Reeds before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorite who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you devoted to destruction.
And 47 more times.