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# עֲמָשָׂא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6021

**Amasa** — used 16 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

Amasa [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6021/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲמָשָׂא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6021/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cf. עמס, עמשׂ? or read עַמִּשַׂי (ii. עַם + יִשַׂי), WeIsr. u. Jüd. Gesch. 24, cf. GrayProp. N. 44, 323);— Absalom’s general 2 S 17:25(×2) 19:14 + 8 times 2 S 20; 1 K 2:5, 32; 1 Ch 2:17(×2), 𝔊 Αμεσσ(α)ει, 𝔊L Αμεσσα. Ephraimite 2 Ch 28:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 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: Amasa (14); of Amasa (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.17/#tree)

וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִל יָלְדָ֖ה אֶת־עֲמָשָׂ֑א וַאֲבִ֣י עֲמָשָׂ֔א יֶ֖תֶר הַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Abigail she.bore (et) Amasa and the.father of.Amasa \[was\].Jether the Ishmaelite

*JPS 1917:* And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

[2 Samuel 20:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.5/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ עֲמָשָׂ֖א לְהַזְעִ֣יק אֶת־יְהוּדָ֑ה וַיּ֕וֹחֶר מִן־הַמּוֹעֵ֖ד אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְעָדֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.went Amasa to summon (et) Judah and he.was.delayed from the.appointed time which he had.appointed.for.him

*JPS 1917:* So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6021/): 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).