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# אָמוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H528

**Amon** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Amon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/528/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָמוֹן: n.pr. Amon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/528/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. Amon, an Egyptian god Na 3:8 Je 46:25, comp. by Greeks with Zeus (Herod. ii, 42; Diod i. 13), Ἀμμῶν. He was originally the local deity of Thebes (= נֹא, called נֹא אָמוֹן Na 3:8, cf. א׳ מִנֹּא Je 46:25), but subsequently became the supreme god of the Egyptian Pantheon, the successor of the sun-god Ra and so-called Amon Ra. He was the secret god, who hid himself and was difficult to find (Amon = concealment, hidden); v. Rawl. Hist. Anc. Egypt, i, 322 Ebers. RiHWB. Je 46:25 Spiegelberg Randglossen, 43 ff. reads נֹא אָמוֹן (as Na 3:8) for אָמוֹן נֹא, and finds in both a Thebes in the Delta. (ii. iii. אָמוֹן v. p. 54.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Amon (2).

## In the verses

[Nahum 3:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.8/#tree)

הֲתֵֽיטְבִי֙ מִנֹּ֣א אָמ֔וֹן הַיֹּֽשְׁבָה֙ בַּיְאֹרִ֔ים מַ֖יִם סָבִ֣יב לָ֑הּ אֲשֶׁר־חֵ֣יל יָ֔ם מִיָּ֖ם חוֹמָתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* have you.been.made.good? more than.No Amon \[which was\].dwelling among the canals water \[was\].all.around (to) it which rampart \[was.the\].sea \[was\].from sea wall its

*JPS 1917:* Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and of the sea her wall?

[Jeremiah 46:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.25/#tree)

אָמַר֩ יְהוָ֨ה צְבָא֜וֹת אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל הִנְנִ֤י פוֹקֵד֙ אֶל־אָמ֣וֹן מִנֹּ֔א וְעַל־פַּרְעֹה֙ וְעַל־מִצְרַ֔יִם וְעַל־אֱלֹהֶ֖יהָ וְעַל־מְלָכֶ֑יהָ וְעַ֨ל־פַּרְעֹ֔ה וְעַ֥ל הַבֹּטְחִ֖ים בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* he.says Yahweh of.hosts the.God of.Israel here I \[am\].about.to.visit.\[judgment\] to Amon from Thebes and on Pharaoh and on Egypt and on gods its and on kings its and on Pharaoh and on \[those who\].trust in him

*JPS 1917:* The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and them that trust in him;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/528/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).