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# אַמְנוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H550

**Amnon** — used 28 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

Amnon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/550/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַמְנוֹן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/550/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (faithful) eldest son of David 2 S 3:2; 13:1–39; = אֲמִינוֹן 2 S 13:20; = אַמְנֹן 1 Ch 3:1. a son of Shimon 1 Ch 4:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Amnon (22); of Amnon (4); \[was\] Amnon (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 13:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.39/#tree)

וַתְּכַל֙ דָּוִ֣ד הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לָצֵ֖את אֶל־אַבְשָׁל֑וֹם כִּֽי־נִחַ֥ם עַל־אַמְנ֖וֹן כִּֽי־מֵֽת׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.\[fem\].completed David the king to go.out against Absalom (dm) he.was.comforted on Amnon (dm) he.had.died

*JPS 1917:* And the soul of king David failed with longing for Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

[2 Samuel 3:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.2/#tree)

וַיִּוָּלְד֧וּלְדָוִ֛ד בָּנִ֖ים בְּחֶבְר֑וֹן וַיְהִ֤י בְכוֹרוֹ֙ אַמְנ֔וֹן לַאֲחִינֹ֖עַם הַיִּזְרְעֵאלִֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.born to David sons in Hebron and he.was firstborn his Amnon of Ahinoam the.Jezreelite \[woman\]

*JPS 1917:* And unto David were sons born in Hebron; and his first-born was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/550.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/550/): 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).