Strong's #6018: `Omriy (pronounced om-ree')
from 6014; heaping; Omri, an Israelite:--Omri.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
‛omrı̂y
Omri = "pupil of Jehovah"
1) king of the northern kingdom of Israel, successor to king Elah for whom he was the captain of the army; ruled for 12 years and succeeded by his infamous son Ahab
2) one of the sons of Becher the son of Benjamin
3) a descendant of Pharez the son of Judah
4) son of Michael and chief of the tribe of Issachar in the time of David
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
Relation: from H6014
Usage:
This word is used 18 times:
1 Kings 16:16: "wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over"
1 Kings 16:17: " And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged"
1 Kings 16:21: "of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri."
1 Kings 16:22: "But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that"
1 Kings 16:22: "of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned."
1 Kings 16:23: "of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve"
1 Kings 16:25: " But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all"
1 Kings 16:27: "Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed,"
1 Kings 16:28: " So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son"
1 Kings 16:29: "of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab"
1 Kings 16:29: "Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria"
1 Kings 16:30: "And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all"
2 Kings 8:26: "name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel."
1 Chronicles 7:8: "and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth."
1 Chronicles 9:4: "the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani,"
1 Chronicles 27:18: "one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:"
2 Chronicles 22:2: "name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri."
Micah 6:16: "For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk"
