עֲמָלֵקִי amaleqi

Hebrew word for “Amalekite” · Strong’s H6003 · used 12 times in 12 verses

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Meaning

Someone descended from Amekek;

How it is translated

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

• amalekites 9
• amalekite 3

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 14 (3), 1 Samuel 15 (2), 1 Samuel 30 (2), 2 Samuel 1 (2), Genesis 14 (1), Judges 12 (1), 1 Samuel 27 (1)

Forms

• העמלקי 4
• עמלקי 4
• והעמלקי 2
• מעמלקי 1
• ועמלקי 1

Words used with it

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

• כְּנַעֲנִי kenaani “Canaanite” 3
• דָּוִד david “David” 4
• אַי ay “where?” 2
• אָנֹכִי anokhi “I” 3
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 4
• פָּשַׁט pashat “to strip” 2
• אַתָּה attah “you(m.s.)” 4
• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 3
• נַעַר naar “youth” 2
• שָׁאוּל shaul “Saul” 2
• מִי mi “who?” 2
• יָרַד yarad “to go down” 2

Key verses

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

• Genesis 14:7 — And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
• Numbers 14:25 — (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
• Numbers 14:43 — For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will…
• Numbers 14:45 — Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
• Judges 12:15 — And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.
• 1 Samuel 15:6 — And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of…
• 1 Samuel 15:15 — And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and…
• 1 Samuel 27:8 — And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as…
• 1 Samuel 30:1 — And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag,…
• 1 Samuel 30:13 — And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me,…
• 2 Samuel 1:8 — And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
• 2 Samuel 1:13 — And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.

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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.