--- title: אֱמֹרִי — Amorite · The Tanakh dictionary description: אֱמֹרִי (567), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 87 times: Amorite. BDB 1906: n.pr.m.coll. Amorites adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/567.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488-6.md)‎ / אֱמֹרִי‎ # אֱמֹרִי «אֱמֹרִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Amorite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 87 times · **Key:** 567 · **BDB:** אֱמֹרִי ### Glosses the.Amorite\[s\] (41); Amorite\[s\] (39); Amorite (3) ### Meaning (OSHB) Amorite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/567/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.pr.m.coll. Amorites adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/567/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m.coll. (construed as pl. Dt 3:9 + 5 times) Amorites (perhaps = mountain-dwellers, cf. Nu 13:29; Dt 1:7, 19 f. etc. \& Di Gn 10:16 al.)—always c. art., except Nu 21:29; Ez 16:45. Meaning mountain-dwellers very dub.; on א׳ = Egyptian ʾA-ma-ra v. WMMAs. u. Eur. 229 ff., = TelAm. and Assyrian Amurru, v. WklTelAm. 36 JastrEB Canaan, § 10 SayHastDB Amorites al.; cf. also GFM; Ju 4,5 Dr Dt 1:7 Gray Nu 13:29. called son of Canaan Gn 10:16 (J) 1 Ch 1:14 = a chief people dispossessed by Hebrews; (a) living E. of Jordan Nu 21:13,(×2), 25 + 9 times Nu + Jos 24:8 (all E), cf. Jos 2:10; 9:10 (JE) Dt 1:4; 3:2, 9 + 7 times D; also Ju 10:8, 11; 11:19, 21, 22, 23; 1 K 4:19 ψ 135:11; 136:19 (Sihon their king Nu 21:21 +; Sihon \& Og Dt 3:8 +); (b) living W. of Jordan Jos 10:5, 6; 24:12, 15, 18 (all E), cf. 7:7 (JE); 5:1; 10:12 (both D; cf. also 13:4, q. del. Di) Ju 1:34, 35, 36; 6:10; 1 K 21:26; 2 K 21:11 cf. 1 S 7:14; 2 S 21:2; (c) living in south Dt 1:7, 19, 20, 27, 44; cf. Gn 14:7 (W. of Dead Sea); (d) in gen. = ancient inhabitants of Canaan Gn 15:16 (J or R) 48:22 (E) Am 2:9, 10; (e) named in list of Canaanitish peoples, to be dispossessed by Isr. Ex 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:2; 34:11; Jos 3:10; 9:1 (all J); Dt 7:1; 20:17 Jos 11:3; 12:8 (all D); Ex 23:23; Nu 13:29; Jos 24:11 (all E); Ju 3:5; 1 K 9:20; 2 Ch 8:7; Ezr 9:1; Ne 9:8; cf. Ez 16:3, 45; (on these lists cf. BuUrgesch 344 ff. \& WeJBTh xxi. 602.) adj.gent. sg. Gn 14:13; Dt 2:24. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 72 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «אֱמֹרִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/567/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Numbers 21:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.31/) וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בְּאֶ֖רֶץ הָאֱמֹרִֽי׃ *Word for word:* and it.dwelt Israel in the.land of the.Amorite\[s\] *JPS 1917:* Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. [Psalms 136:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.136.19/) לְ֭סִיחוֹן מֶ֣לֶךְ הָאֱמֹרִ֑י כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ׃ *Word for word:* to Sihon the.king of the.Amorites (dm) \[is\] forever loyalty his.covenant *JPS 1917:* Sihon king of the Amorites, for His mercy endureth for ever; - ← previous: [אִמְרִי](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/566.md) - next →: [אֲמַרְיָה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/568.md) - ↑ back to [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488-6.md)