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# עֲמָלֵקִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6003

**the** — used 12 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

the [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6003/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲמָלֵקִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6003/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. 1 S 30:13; 2 S 1:13, also (as pred.) v 8; coll. = (the) Amalekites 1 S 15:6, 15; 30:1, elsewhere c. art. הָע׳ Nu 14:25, 43, 45 (J; all + הַכְּנַעֲנִי), 1 S 27:8; שְׂדֵה הָע׳ Gn 14:7; הַר הָע׳ Ju 12:15 (in Ephraim); read הָע׳ also Ju 1:16 (for הָעָם) Bu GFM, \> עֲמָלֵק Hollenb Mey Kit Kau; on 2 S 1:1 v. foreg.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Amalekite\[s\] (6); the Amalekite\[s\] (2); Amalekite (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 1:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.8/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר לִ֖י מִי־אָ֑תָּה וָאֹמַ֣ר אֵלָ֔יו עֲמָלֵקִ֖י אָנֹֽכִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to me who? \[are\].you and I.said to him \[am\].an.Amalekite I

*JPS 1917:* And he said unto me: Who art thou? And I answered him: I am an Amalekite.

[Judges 12:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.15/#tree)

וַיָּ֛מָת עַבְדּ֥וֹן בֶּן־הִלֵּ֖ל הַפִּרְעָתוֹנִ֑י וַיִּקָּבֵ֤ר בְּפִרְעָתוֹן֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ אֶפְרַ֔יִם בְּהַ֖ר הָעֲמָלֵקִֽי׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.died Abdon the.son of.Hillel the Pirathonite and he.was.buried at Pirathon in the.land of.Ephraim in the.hill.country of the.Amalekite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6003.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6003/): 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).