Lexical Summary Amon: an Eg. god Original Word: אָמוֹןTransliteration: Amon Phonetic Spelling: (aw-mone') Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: an Eg. god Meaning: Amon -- an Egyptian god Strong's Concordance 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' Brown-Driver-Briggs H528. Amon I. אָמוֺן proper name Amon, an Egyptian god Nahum 3:8; Jeremiah 46:25, compare by Greeks with Zeus (Herod.ii. 42; Diodi.13), Ἀμμῶν. He was originally the local deity of Thebes (= נאֹ, called אָמוֺן נאֹ Nahum 3:8, compare ׳א מִנּאֹ Jeremiah 46:25 **SpiegelbRandglossen, 43 ff. reads אָמוֺן נֹא (as Nahum 3:8) for נֹא אָמוֺן, 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 RiHWB. (II. III. אָמוֺן.) |
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