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Strong's #569: 'Amraphel (pronounced am-raw-fel')

of uncertain (perhaps foreign) derivation; Amraphel, a king of Shinar:--Amraphel.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'amrâphel

Amraphel = "sayer of darkness: fall of the sayer"

1) the king of Shinar (Babylon) (perhaps Hammurabi approximately 2100 BC)

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: of uncertain (perhaps foreign) derivation



Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

Genesis 14:1: "And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar,"
Genesis 14:9: "and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king"









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