אָמִירʼâmîyr

top, summit (Isaiah 17:6; Isaiah 17:9; Genesis 49:21)

Pronunciation: aw-meer' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H534

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Isaiah 17:6 Only a few of its people will be left, like stray olives left on a tree after the harvest. Only two or three remain in the highest branches, four or five scattered here and there on the limbs,” declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
  • Isaiah 17:9 Their largest cities will be like a deserted forest, like the land the Hivites and Amorites abandoned when the Israelites came here so long ago. It will be utterly desolate.

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).