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title: אַמָּה — Ammah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַמָּה (522), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Ammah. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַמָּה

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«אַמָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ammah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 522 · **BDB:** אַמָּה⁵

### Glosses

of.Ammah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ammah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/522/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/522/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. hill near Gibeon, גִּבְעַת־אַמָּה 2 S 2:24.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַמָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/522/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 2:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.2.24/)

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וַֽיִּרְדְּפ֛וּ יוֹאָ֥ב וַאֲבִישַׁ֖י אַחֲרֵ֣י אַבְנֵ֑ר וְהַשֶּׁ֣מֶשׁ בָּ֔אָה וְהֵ֗מָּה בָּ֚אוּ עַד־גִּבְעַ֣ת אַמָּ֔ה אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־פְּנֵי־גִ֔יחַ דֶּ֖רֶךְ מִדְבַּ֥ר גִּבְעֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and they.pursued Joab and Abishai after Abner and the sun it.set and they they.came to the.hill of.Ammah which \[is\].on the.face of.Giah the.way of.the.wilderness of.Gibeon

*JPS 1917:* But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner; and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

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