Lexicon Amon: an Eg. god Original Word: אָמוֹןPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Amon Phonetic Spelling: (aw-mone') Short Definition: Amon NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof foreign origin Definitionan Eg. god NASB TranslationAmon (1), No-amon* (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I. אָמוֺן proper name Amon, an Egyptian god Nahum 3:8; Jeremiah 46:25, compare by Greeks with Zeus (Herod. ii. 42; Diod i.13), Ἀμμῶν. He was originally the local deity of Thebes (= נאֹ, called נאֹ אָמוֺן Nahum 3:8, compare מִנּאֹ ׳א Jeremiah 46:25 **Spiegelb Randglossen, 43 ff. reads נֹא אָמוֺן (as Nahum 3:8) for אָמוֺן נֹא, and finds in both a Thebes in the Delta.), but subsequently became the supreme god of the Egyptian Pantheon, the successor of the sun-god Ra and so-called Amon Ra. He was the secret god, who hid himself and was difficult to find (Amon = concealment, hidden); see Rawl. Hist, Anc. Egypt, i. 322 Ebers Ri HWB. (II. III. אָמוֺן.) Strong's multitude, populous Of Egyptian derivation; Amon (i.e. Ammon or Amn), a deity of Egypt (used only as an adjunct of No') -- multitude, populous. see HEBREW No' |
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