אָמוֹןʼÂmôwn
אָמִי: proper name, masculine: = III.
Pronunciation: aw-mone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H526
Meanings
אָמוֺן (Ezra 2:57; Nehemiah 7:59)
אָמוֺן: proper name, masculine: master-workman
a king of Judah (2 Kings 18:19; 2 Kings 18:23; 2 Kings 18:24)
b captain of a city (1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chronicles 18:25)
c one of the line of Solomon's servants (Nehemiah 7:59; Ezra 2:57)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 17 times in the Bible.
- 1 Kings 22:26 “Arrest him!” the king of Israel ordered. “Take him back to Amon, the governor of the city, and to my son Joash.
- 2 Kings 21:18 When Manasseh died, he was buried in the palace garden, the garden of Uzza. Then his son Amon became the next king.
- 2 Kings 21:19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz from Jotbah.
- 2 Kings 21:23 Then Amon’s own officials conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace.
- 2 Kings 21:24 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah the next king.
- 2 Kings 21:25 The rest of the events in Amon’s reign and what he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).