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 WMM^{As.u.Eur.229ff.}, = Tel Amarna and Assyrian Amurru, see Wkl^{TelAm. 36*} Jastr^{EB CANAAN, § 10} Say^{Hast.DB AMORITES} and others; compare also GFM^{Judg 4:5} Dr^{Dt l.7} Gray^{Num 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 Bu^{Urgesch 344 ff.} & We^{JBTh xxi. 602}.)

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