Brown-Driver-Briggs
I.
אַמָּה noun feminine only
mother-city, metropolis (compare
אֵם 2 Samuel 20:19 & Phoenician); in phrase
מֶתֶג הָאַמָּה authority of mother-city 2 Samuel 8:1; see
מֶתֶג; compare Dr.
IV. אַמָּה proper name, of a location hill near Gibeon, גִּבְעַתאַֿמָּה 2 Samuel 2:24.
