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# אָמוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H526

**Amon** — used 17 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/1488/526/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָמוֹן³: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/526/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (master-workman) (a) king of Judah 2 K 21:18, 19, 23, 24, 25 1 Ch 3:14 2 Ch 33:20, 21, 22, 23 25 Je 1:2; 25:3; (b) captain of a city 1 K 22:26 2 Ch 18:25; (c) one of the line of Solomon’s servants Ne 7:59 = אָמִי Ezr 2:57.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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 (10); of Amon (6); \[was\] Amon (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 3:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.14/#tree)

אָמ֥וֹן בְּנ֖וֹ יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּ בְנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].Amon son his \[was\].Josiah son his

*JPS 1917:* Amon his son, Josiah his son.

[Nehemiah 7:59](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.59/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.59/#tree)

בְּנֵ֧י שְׁפַטְיָ֣ה בְנֵֽי־חַטִּ֗יל בְּנֵ֛י פֹּכֶ֥רֶת הַצְּבָיִ֖ים פֹּכֶ֥רֶת הַצְּבָיִ֖ים בְּנֵ֥י אָמֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Shephatiah the.descendants of.Hattil the.descendants of Pokereth-Hazzebaim the.descendants of.Amon

*JPS 1917:* the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Amon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/526.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/526/): 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).