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# עָמוֹס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5986

**Amos** — used 7 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

Amos [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5986/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָמוֹס: n.pr.m. Amos [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5986/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Amos the prophet;—Am 1:1; 7:8, 10, 11, 12, 14; 8:2, 𝔊 Αμως.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Amos (4); O Amos (2); of Amos (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 7:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.11/#tree)

כִּי־כֹה֙ אָמַ֣ר עָמ֔וֹס בַּחֶ֖רֶב יָמ֣וּת יָרָבְעָ֑ם וְיִ֨שְׂרָאֵ֔ל גָּלֹ֥ה יִגְלֶ֖ה מֵעַ֥ל אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) thus he.has.said Amos by the sword he.will.die Jeroboam and Israel certainly.(go.into.exile) it.will.go.into.exile from on land its

*JPS 1917:* For thus Amos saith: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'

[Amos 7:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.12/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲמַצְיָה֙ אֶל־עָמ֔וֹס חֹזֶ֕ה לֵ֥ךְ בְּרַח־לְךָ֖ אֶל־אֶ֣רֶץ יְהוּדָ֑ה וֶאֱכָל־שָׁ֣ם לֶ֔חֶם וְשָׁ֖ם תִּנָּבֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Amaziah to Amos O.seer go flee (for yourself to the.land of.Judah and eat there bread and there you.will.prophesy

*JPS 1917:* Also Amaziah said unto Amos: 'O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5986.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5986/): 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).