H567 — אֱמֹרִי (ʼĔmôrîy)

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Strong's H567 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: אֱמֹרִי (ʼĔmôrîy)

Pronunciation: em-o-ree'

Morphology: n-m

Name Meaning: Amorite = "a sayer"

Derivation: probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from אָמַר (ʼâmar) [H559] in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence; thus, a mountaineer;

Definition: an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes

KJV Renderings: Amorite.

Senses

  1. one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt

Cross References

Strong's Original Transliteration Derivation Definition KJV Renderings
H559 אָמַר ʼâmar a primitive root to say (used with great latitude) answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.