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Strong's #567: 'Emoriy (pronounced em-o-ree')

probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from 559 in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence; thus, a mountaineer; an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes:--Amorite.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ĕmôrı̂y

Amorite = "a sayer"

1) one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt

Part of Speech: noun masculine collective

Relation: probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from H559 in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence



Usage:

This word is used 87 times:

Genesis 10:16: "And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,"
Genesis 14:7: "of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar."
Genesis 14:13: "dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner:"
Genesis 15:16: "they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet"
Genesis 15:21: " And the Amorites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
Genesis 48:22: "which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."
Exodus 3:8: "unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites."
Exodus 3:17: "of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites,"
Exodus 13:5: "the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore"
Exodus 23:23: "before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites,"
Exodus 33:2: "thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:"
Exodus 34:11: "I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite,"
Numbers 13:29: "of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell"
Numbers 21:13: "of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for"
Numbers 21:13: "for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites."
Numbers 21:21: "unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,"
Numbers 21:25: "dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages"
Numbers 21:26: "was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king"
Numbers 21:29: "into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites."
Numbers 21:31: "Thus Israel in the land of the Amorites."
Numbers 21:32: "the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there."
Numbers 21:34: "thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon."
Numbers 22:2: "that Israel had done to the Amorites."
Numbers 32:33: "the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan,"
Numbers 32:39: "and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which"
Deuteronomy 1:4: "Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og"
Deuteronomy 1:7: "and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain,"
Deuteronomy 1:19: "which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God"
Deuteronomy 1:20: "you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give"
Deuteronomy 1:27: "out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy"
Deuteronomy 1:44: " And the Amorites, in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as"
Deuteronomy 2:24: "into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin"
Deuteronomy 3:2: "thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon."
Deuteronomy 3:8: "out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that"
Deuteronomy 3:9: "call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)"
Deuteronomy 4:46: "in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom"
Deuteronomy 4:47: "of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;"
Deuteronomy 7:1: "nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites,"
Deuteronomy 20:17: "But them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites,"
Deuteronomy 31:4: "to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed."
Joshua 2:10: "of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side"
Joshua 3:10: "the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites."
Joshua 5:1: "And it came to pass, the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward,"
Joshua 7:7: "Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content,"
Joshua 9:1: "against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,"
Joshua 9:10: "he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon"
Joshua 10:5: "Therefore the five of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king"
Joshua 10:6: "us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together"
Joshua 10:12: "when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said"
Joshua 11:3: "And to the Canaanite and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite,"









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