ʻĂmâlêqîy — H6003

Definition

patronymic adjective

an Amalekite (or collectively the Amalekites) or descendants of Amalek

1. Amalekite = see Amalek "people of lapping"
2. descendants of Amalek, the grandson of Esau

Usually translated as

Amalekites, Amalekite

Origin

patronymically from H6002

• Derived from ʻĂmâlêq (H6002)

Occurrences

ʻĂmâlêqîy occurs 16 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Numbers (4), Judges (4), 1 Samuel (5), 2 Samuel (2)

• Genesis 14:7 — And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites (הָעֲמָלֵקִ֑י), and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
• Numbers 13:29 — The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
• Numbers 14:25 — (Now the Amalekites (וְהָֽעֲמָלֵקִ֥י) and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
• Numbers 14:43 — For the Amalekites (הָעֲמָלֵקִ֨י) and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
• Numbers 14:45 — Then the Amalekites (הָעֲמָלֵקִי֙) came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
• Judges 6:3 — And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
• Judges 6:33 — Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
• Judges 7:12 — And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
• Judges 12:15 — And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites (הָעֲמָלֵקִֽי).
• 1 Samuel 15:6 — And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites (עֲמָלֵקִ֗י).
• 1 Samuel 15:15 — And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites (מֵעֲמָלֵקִ֣י): for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
• 1 Samuel 27:8 — And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites (וְהָעֲמָלֵקִ֑י): for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
• 1 Samuel 30:1 — And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites (וַעֲמָלֵקִ֣י) had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
• 1 Samuel 30:13 — And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite (עֲמָֽלֵקִ֔י); and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
• 2 Samuel 1:8 — And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite (עֲמָלֵקִ֖י).
• 2 Samuel 1:13 — And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite (עֲמָלֵקִ֖י).