567. Emori
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Emori: perhaps "mountain dwellers," a Canaanite tribe
Original Word: אֱמֹרִי
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: Emori
Phonetic Spelling: (em-o-ree')
Short Definition: Amorites

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from amar
Definition
perhaps "mountain dwellers," a Canaanite tribe
NASB Translation
Amorite (24), Amorites (63).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
אֱמֹרִי proper name, masculine collective (construed as plural Deuteronomy 3:9 5t.) Amorites (perhaps = mountain-dwellers, compare Numbers 13:29; Deuteronomy 1:7,19f. etc. & Di Genesis 10:16 and elsewhere) **meaning mountain-dwellers very dubious; on ׳א = Egyptian 'A-ma-ra see WMMAs.u.Eur.229ff., = Tel Amarna and Assyrian Amurru, see WklTelAm. 36* JastrEB CANAAN, § 10 SayHast.DB AMORITES and others; compare also GFMJudg 4:5 DrDt l.7 GrayNum 13:29. — always with article, except Numbers 21:29; Ezekiel 16:45.

1 called son of Canaan Genesis 10:16 (J) 1 Chronicles 1:14 =

2 a chief people dispossessed by Hebrews; (a) living east of Jordan Numbers 21:13 (twice in verse); Numbers 21:25 9t. Numbers + Joshua 24:8 (all E), compare Joshua 2:10; Joshua 9:10 (JE) Deuteronomy 1:4; Deuteronomy 3:2,9 7t. D; also Judges 10:8,11; Judges 11:19,21,23 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 4:19; Psalm 135:11; Psalm 136:19 (Sihon their king Numbers 21:1 +; Sihon & Og Deuteronomy 3:8 + ); (b) living west of Jordan Joshua 10:5,6; Joshua 24:12,15,18 (all E), compare Joshua 7:7 (JE); Joshua 5:1; Joshua 10:12 (both D; compare also Joshua 13:4, q. strike out Di) Judges 1:34,35,36; Judges 6:10; 1 Kings 21:26; 2 Kings 21:11 compare 1 Samuel 21:2; (c) living in south Deuteronomy 1:7,19,20,27,44; compare Genesis 14:7 (west of Dead Sea); (d) in General = ancient inhabitants of Canaan Genesis 15:16 (J or R) Genesis 48:22 (E) Amos 2:9,10; (e) named in list of Canaanitish peoples, to be dispossessed by Israel Exodus 3:8,17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 33:2; Exodus 34:11; Joshua 3:10; Joshua 9:1 (all J); Deuteronomy 7:1; Deuteronomy 20:17; Joshua 11:3; Joshua 12:8 (all D); Exodus 23:23; Numbers 13:29; Joshua 24:11 (all E); Judges 3:5; 1 Kings 9:20; 2Chronicles 8:7; Ezra 9:1; Nehemiah 9:8; compare Ezekiel 16:3,45; (on these lists compare BuUrgesch 344 ff. & WeJBTh xxi. 602.)

3. adjective, of a people singular Genesis 14:13 Deuteronomy 2:24.



Strong's
Amorite

Probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from 'amar in the sense of publicity, i.e. Prominence; thus, a mountaineer; an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes -- Amorite.

see HEBREW 'amar

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