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:
Joshua 12:2: "Sihon of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer,"
Joshua 12:8: "and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:"
Joshua 13:4: "unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:"
Joshua 13:10: "of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto"
Joshua 13:21: "the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom"
Joshua 24:8: "And I brought the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought"
Joshua 24:11: "and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites,"
Joshua 24:12: "you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword,"
Joshua 24:15: "or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me"
Joshua 24:18: "from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we"
Judges 1:34: " And the Amorites the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not"
Judges 1:35: " But the Amorites dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand"
Judges 1:36: "And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward."
Judges 3:5: "among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:"
Judges 6:10: "not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell:"
Judges 10:8: "that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead."
Judges 10:11: "Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon,"
Judges 11:19: "unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said"
Judges 11:21: "all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country."
Judges 11:22: "all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok,"
Judges 11:23: "of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel,"
1 Samuel 7:14: "out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites."
2 Samuel 21:2: "of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children"
1 Kings 4:19: "in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only"
1 Kings 9:20: "that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites,"
1 Kings 21:26: "idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out"
2 Kings 21:11: "abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which"
1 Chronicles 1:14: "The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,"
2 Chronicles 8:7: "that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which"
Ezra 9:1: "the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites."
Nehemiah 9:8: "the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give"
Psalms 135:11: "Sihon of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms"
Psalms 136:19: "Sihon of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth forever:"
Ezekiel 16:3: "is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite."
Ezekiel 16:45: "your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite."
Amos 2:9: "Yet destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height"
Amos 2:10: "years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite."
