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אֱמֹרִי proper name, masculine collective (construed as plural Deut 3:9 + 5 t.) Amorites (perhaps = mountain-dwellers , compare Num 13:29; Deut 1:7 ; Deut 1:19f. etc. & Di Gen 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 GFM
Judg 4:5
DrDt l.7 Gray
Num 13:29
. — always with article, except Num 21:29; Ezek 16:45.
1. called son of Canaan Gen 10:16 (
J
) 1Chr 1:14
=
2. a chief people dispossessed by Hebrews; (a) living east of Jordan Num 21:13 (twice in verse); Num 21:25 + 9 t.
Numbers + Josh 24:8
(all
E
), compare Josh
2:10; Josh 9:10
(
J
E
) Deut 1:4;
Deut 3:2; Deut 3:9 + 7 t.
D
; also Judg 10:8
; Judg 10:11
; Judg 11:19
; Judg 11:21
; Judg 11:23
(twice in verse); 1Kgs 4:19; Ps 135:11; Ps 136:19 (Sihon their king Num 21:1 +; Sihon & Og Deut 3:8 + ); (b) living
west of Jordan Josh 10:5
; Josh 10:6;
Josh 24:12;
Josh 24:15;
Josh 24:18 (all
E
), compare Josh 7:7
(
J
E
); Josh 5:1;
Josh 10:12
(both
D
; compare also
Josh 13:4, q. strike out Di) Judg 1:34; Judg 1:35; Judg 1:36; Judg 6:10; 1Kgs 21:26; 2Kgs 21:11 compare 1Sam 21:2 (c) living
in south Deut 1:7; Deut 1:19; Deut 1:20; Deut 1:27; Deut 1:44 compare
Gen 14:7 (west of
Dead Sea); (d) in general = ancient inhabitants of Canaan Gen 15:16 (
J
or
R
) Gen 48:22
(
E
) Amos 2:9;
Amos 2:10 (e)
named in list of Canaanitish peoples, to be dispossessed by Israel Exod 3:8; Exod 3:17; Exod 13:5; Exod 33:2; Exod 34:11; Josh 3:10; Josh 9:1 (all
J
); Deut 7:1;
Deut 20:17;
Josh 11:3; Josh 12:8 (all
D
); Exod
23:23; Num
13:29; Josh
24:11 (all
E
); Judg 3:5;
1Kgs 9:20; 2Chr 8:7; Ezra 9:1; Neh 9:8 compare Ezek 16:3; Ezek 16:45 (on
these lists compare BuUrgesch 344 ff. & WeJBTh xxi. 602.)
3.
adjective [of a people] singular Gen 14:13; Deut 2:24.