Lexical Summary Emori: perhaps "mountain dwellers", a Canaanite tribe Original Word: אֲמֹרִיTransliteration: Emori Phonetic Spelling: (em-o-ree') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: perhaps "mountain dwellers", a Canaanite tribe Meaning: Amorites -- perhaps "mountain dwellers", a Canaanite tribe Strong's Concordance Amorite Probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from 'amar in the sense of publicity, i.e. Prominence; thus, a mountaineer; an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes -- Amorite. see HEBREW 'amar Brown-Driver-Briggs H567. Emori אֱמֹרִי proper name, masculine collective (construed as plural Deuteronomy 3:9 5t.) Amorites (perhaps = mountain-dwellers, compare Numbers 13:29; Deuteronomy 1:7, 19f. etc. & Di Genesis 10:16 and elsewhere) **meaning mountain-dwellers very dubious; on ׳א = Egyptian 'A-ma-ra see WMMAs.u.Eur.229ff., = Tel Amarna and Assyrian Amurru, see WklTelAm. 36* JastrEB CANAAN, § 10 SayHast.DB AMORITES and others; compare also GFMJudges 4:5 DrDt l.7 GrayNumbers 13:29. — always with article, except 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); 21:25 9t. Numbers + Joshua 24:8 (all E), compare 2:10; 9:10 (JE) Deuteronomy 1:4; 3:2, 9 7t. D; also Judges 10:8, 11; 11:19, 21, 23 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 4:19; Psalm 135:11; 136:19 (Sihon their king Numbers 21:1 +; Sihon & Og Deuteronomy 3:8 + ); (b) living west of Jordan Joshua 10:5-6, 24:12, 15, 18 (all E), compare 7:7 (JE); 5:1; 10:12 (both D; compare also 13:4, q. strike out Di) Judges 1:34-35, 36; 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 15:16 (J or R) 48:22 (E) Amos 2:9-10, (e) named in list of Canaanitish peoples, to be dispossessed by Israel Exodus 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:2; 34:11; Joshua 3:10; 9:1 (all J); Deuteronomy 7:1; 20:17; Joshua 11:3; 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. |
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