אֱמֹרִי emori

Hebrew word for “Amorite” · Strong’s H567 · used 87 times in 86 verses

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Meaning

Someone descended from Amor(?), first mentioned at Gen.10.16;

How it is translated

Glosses given for emori in context, with how often each is used:

• amorites 83
• amorite 4

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 21 (8), Deuteronomy 1 (6), Joshua 24 (5), Judges 11 (4), Deuteronomy 3 (3), Joshua 10 (3), Joshua 13 (3), Judges 1 (3), Genesis 14 (2), Genesis 15 (2)

Forms

• האמרי 71
• והאמרי 13
• אמרי 2
• לאמרי 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with emori more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• יְבוּסִי yevusi “Jebusite” 22
• סִיחוֹן sichon “Sihon” 20
• חִתִּי chitti “Hittite” 21
• כְּנַעֲנִי kenaani “Canaanite” 22
• פְּרִזִּי perizzi “Perizzite” 17
• חִוִּי chivvi “Hivite” 16
• חֶשְׁבּוֹן cheshbon “Heshbon” 12
• עֵבֶר ever “side” 12
• יַרְדֵּן yarden “Jordan” 13
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 20
• יָרַשׁ yarash “to possess” 12
• גִּרְגָּשִׁי girgashi “Girgashite” 7

Key verses

The verses using emori that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 3:8 — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing…
• Exodus 34:11 — Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the…
• Numbers 32:33 — And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of…
• Deuteronomy 7:1 — When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the…
• Joshua 3:10 — And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the…
• Joshua 5:1 — And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea,…
• Joshua 9:1 — And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against…
• Joshua 10:12 — Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand…
• Joshua 24:15 — And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side…
• Ezra 9:1 — Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the…
• Nehemiah 9:8 — And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites,…
• Amos 2:9 — Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.