אֱמֹרִי (e.mo.ri) means “Amorite” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: em-o-ree' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
אֱמֹרִי · e.mo.ri · Amorite
Someone descended from Amor(?), first mentioned at Gen.10.16; descended from Canaan (H3667); along with Sidon (H6721), Heth (H2845), Jebusite (H2983), Girgashite (H1622), Hivite (H2340), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H0721), Zemarite (H6786) and Hamathite (H2577) § Amorite = "a sayer" one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt
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probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from H559 (אָמַר) in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence; thus, a mountaineer; an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes
KJV glosses: Amorite.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of the amorites | 38 |
| amorites | 13 |
| the amorites | 11 |
| the amorite | 4 |
| amorite | 2 |
| and amorites | 2 |
| and the amorites | 2 |
| to the amorites | 2 |
| an amorite | 1 |
| as did the amorites | 1 |
| but the amorites | 1 |
| gave the amorites | 1 |
| including the amorites | 1 |
| into the amorite | 1 |
| of the amorite | 1 |
| than the amorites | 1 |
| the land of the amorites | 1 |
| then the amorites | 1 |
| was an amorite | 1 |
| well as the amorites | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of the amorites | 43 |
| and the amorites | 15 |
| the amorites | 6 |
| the amorite | 5 |
| an amorite | 2 |
| and the amorite | 2 |
| of the amorite | 2 |
| above all that the amorites | 1 |
| against you the amorites | 1 |
| also and the amorite | 1 |
| and also the amorites | 1 |
| and amorites | 1 |
| and from the amorites | 1 |
| but the amorites | 1 |
| even the amorites | 1 |
| i the amorite | 1 |
| thee in unto the amorites | 1 |
| thee the amorite | 1 |
| to the amorites | 1 |
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the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):
Read word by wordto the south, all the land of the Canaanites, from Mearah of the Sidonians to Aphek, as far as the border of the Amorites;
Read word by wordand all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the Ammonites;
Read word by wordall the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.
Read word by wordLater, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you.
Read word by wordAfter this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.
Read word by wordI sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.
Read word by wordBut if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
Read word by wordAnd the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”
Read word by wordThe Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain.
Read word by wordAnd the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of Joseph grew in strength, they pressed the Amorites into forced labor.
Read word by wordAnd the border of the Amorites extended from the Ascent of Akrabbim to Sela and beyond.
Read word by wordThus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Read word by wordAnd I said to you: ‘I am the LORD your God. You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.’ But you did not obey Me.”
Read word by wordwho that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
Read word by wordThe LORD replied, “When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines,
Read word by wordAnd Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land into our own place.’
Read word by wordThen the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, who defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites who inhabited that country,
Read word by wordseizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
Read word by wordNow since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before His people Israel, should you now possess it?
Read word by wordThe cities from Ekron to Gath, which the Philistines had taken, were restored to Israel, who also delivered the surrounding territory from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between the Israelites and the Amorites.
Read word by wordAt this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)
Read word by wordGeber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah.
Read word by wordAs for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—
Read word by wordHe committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)
Read word by word“Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,
Read word by wordthe Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
Read word by wordAs for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites)—
Read word by wordAfter these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
Read word by wordYou found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
Read word by wordSihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.
Read word by wordSihon king of the Amorites His loving devotion endures forever.
Read word by wordand tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Read word by wordYou are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Read word by wordYet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.
Read word by wordAnd I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.
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