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# עָמוֹק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5987

**Amok** — 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

Amok [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5987/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָמוֹק: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5987/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a priest Ne 12:7, 20, Αμουκ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 12:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.20/#tree)

לְסַלַּ֥י קַלָּ֖י לְעָמ֥וֹק עֵֽבֶר׃

*Word for word:* of Sallai Kallai of Amok Eber

*JPS 1917:* of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;

[Nehemiah 12:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.7/#tree)

סַלּ֣וּ עָמ֔וֹק חִלְקִיָּ֖ה יְדַֽעְיָ֑ה אֵ֣לֶּה רָאשֵׁ֧י הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים וַאֲחֵיהֶ֖ם בִּימֵ֥י יֵשֽׁוּעַ׃פ

*Word for word:* Sallu Amok Hilkiah Jedaiah these \[were\].the.leaders of the.priests and brothers their in the.days of.Jeshua

*JPS 1917:* Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5987/): 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).