Emori אֱמֹרִי

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Emori
אֱמֹרִי
Transliterationemori
Strong's numberH567
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechplace name
GlossAmorite
Occurrences87 in 86 verses
Most frequent inJoshua (20)

Emori (Hebrew אֱמֹרִי, Strong's H567) is a place name in the Old Testament, glossed “Amorite”. It occurs 87 times.

Definition

Someone descended from Amor(?), first mentioned at Gen.10.16; descended from Canaan (H3667); along with Sidon (H6721), Heth (H2845), Jebusite (H2983), Girgashite (H1622), Hivite (H2340), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H0721), Zemarite (H6786) and Hamathite (H2577)
§ Amorite = "a sayer"
one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVamorites (73), amorite (14)
BSBamorites (70), amorite (8), well as the amorites (1), land of the amorites (1), into the amorite (1), gave the amorites (1), did the amorites (1), including the amorites (1), than the amorites (1), was an amorite (1)

Verses

Every verse with Emori, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Psalms

Ezekiel

Amos

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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