ʼĔmôrîy — H567

Definition

masculine noun

an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes

1. Amorite = "a sayer"
2. one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt

Usually translated as

Amorite

Origin

probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from H559 in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence; thus, a mountaineer

• Derived from ʼâmar (H559)

Occurrences

ʼĔmôrîy occurs 87 times in 86 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (6), Exodus (6), Numbers (12), 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, and the Amorite (הָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔י), and the Girgasite,
• Genesis 14:7 — And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites (הָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔י), that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
• Genesis 14:13 — And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite (הָאֱמֹרִ֗י), brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
• Genesis 15:16 — But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֖י) is not yet full.
• Genesis 15:21 — And the Amorites (הָֽאֱמֹרִי֙), and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
• Genesis 48:22 — Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite (הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י) with my sword and with my bow.
• Exodus 3:8 — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites (וְהָֽאֱמֹרִי֙), and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
• Exodus 3:17 — And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites (וְהָֽאֱמֹרִי֙), and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
• Exodus 13:5 — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites (וְהָאֱמֹרִ֜י), and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
• Exodus 23:23 — For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites (הָֽאֱמֹרִי֙), and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
• Exodus 33:2 — And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite (הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י), and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
• Exodus 34:11 — Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite (הָאֱמֹרִי֙), and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
• Numbers 13:29 — The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites (וְהָֽאֱמֹרִי֙), dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
• Numbers 21:13 — From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites (הָֽאֱמֹרִ֑י): for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
• Numbers 21:13 — From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִֽי).
• Numbers 21:21 — And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֖י), saying,
• Numbers 21:25 — And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites (הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י), in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
• Numbers 21:26 — For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֖י), who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
• Numbers 21:29 — Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites (אֱמֹרִ֖י).
• Numbers 21:31 — Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִֽי).
• Numbers 21:32 — And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֥י) that were there.
• Numbers 21:34 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites (הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י), which dwelt at Heshbon.
• Numbers 22:2 — And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites (לָֽאֱמֹרִֽי).
• Numbers 32:33 — And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites (הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י), and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
• Numbers 32:39 — And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite (הָאֱמֹרִ֥י) which was in it.
• Deuteronomy 1:4 — After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites (הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י), which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
• Deuteronomy 1:7 — Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites (הָֽאֱמֹרִי֮), and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
• Deuteronomy 1:19 — And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites (הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י), as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
• Deuteronomy 1:20 — And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֔י), which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
• Deuteronomy 1:27 — And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֖י), to destroy us.
• Deuteronomy 1:44 — And the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֜י), which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
• Deuteronomy 2:24 — Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite (הָֽאֱמֹרִ֛י), king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
• Deuteronomy 3:2 — And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites (הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י), which dwelt at Heshbon.
• Deuteronomy 3:8 — And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֔י) the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
• Deuteronomy 3:9 — (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites (וְהָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔י) call it Shenir;)
• Deuteronomy 4:46 — On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites (הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י), who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
• Deuteronomy 4:47 — And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites (הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י), which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
• Deuteronomy 7:1 — When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites (וְהָאֱמֹרִ֜י), and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
• Deuteronomy 20:17 — But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites (וְהָאֱמֹרִי֙), the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
• Deuteronomy 31:4 — And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֖י), and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
• Joshua 2:10 — For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֜י), that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
• Joshua 3:10 — And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites (וְהָאֱמֹרִ֖י), and the Jebusites.
• Joshua 5:1 — And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֡י), which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
• Joshua 7:7 — And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֖י), to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
• Joshua 9:1 — And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite (וְהָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔י), the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
• Joshua 9:10 — And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֔י), that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.
• Joshua 10:5 — Therefore the five kings of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֗י), the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.
• Joshua 10:6 — And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites (הָאֱמֹרִ֖י) that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
• Joshua 10:12 — Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites (הָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔י) before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
• Joshua 11:3 — And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite (וְהָאֱמֹרִ֧י), and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.