עַמּוֹןʻAmmôwn
Ammon, a son of Lot; also his posterity and their country
Pronunciation: am-mone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5983
Meanings
proper name [of a people]: Ammon, people apparently akin to Israel, but usually hostile, dwelling east of Jordan, northeast of Moab, between Arnon and Jabbok (1 Samuel 11:11; Psalms 83:8; Genesis 19:38; Numbers 21:24; Deuteronomy 2:19)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 106 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 19:38 When the younger daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Ben-ammi. He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Ammonites.
- Numbers 21:24 But the Israelites slaughtered them with their swords and occupied their land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River. They went only as far as the Ammonite border because the boundary of the Ammonites was fortified.
- Deuteronomy 2:19 and enter the land of the Ammonites, the descendants of Lot. But do not bother them or start a war with them. I have given the land of Ammon to them as their property, and I will not give you any of their land.’”
- Deuteronomy 2:37 However, we avoided the land of the Ammonites all along the Jabbok River and the towns in the hill country—all the places the Lord our God had commanded us to leave alone.
- Deuteronomy 3:11 (King Og of Bashan was the last survivor of the giant Rephaites. His bed was made of iron and was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide. It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)
- Deuteronomy 3:16 But I also gave part of Gilead to the tribes of Reuben and Gad. The area I gave them extended from the middle of the Arnon Gorge in the south to the Jabbok River on the Ammonite frontier.
See every passage
- Genesis 19:38
- Numbers 21:24
- Deuteronomy 2:19, 2:37, 3:11, 3:16
- Joshua 12:2, 13:10, 13:25
- Judges 3:13, 10:6, 10:7, 10:9, 10:11, 10:17, 10:18, 11:4, 11:5, 11:6, 11:8, 11:9, 11:12, 11:13, 11:14, 11:15, 11:27, 11:28, 11:29, 11:30, 11:31, 11:32, 11:33, 11:36, 12:1, 12:2, 12:3
- 1 Samuel 11:11, 12:12, 14:47
- 2 Samuel 8:12, 10:1, 10:2, 10:3, 10:6, 10:8, 10:10, 10:11, 10:14, 10:19, 11:1, 12:9, 12:26, 12:31, 17:27
- 1 Kings 11:7, 11:33
- 2 Kings 23:13, 24:2
- 1 Chronicles 18:11, 19:1, 19:2, 19:3, 19:6, 19:7, 19:9, 19:11, 19:12, 19:15, 19:19, 20:1, 20:3
- 2 Chronicles 20:1, 20:10, 20:22, 20:23, 27:5
- Psalms 83:7
- Isaiah 11:14
- Jeremiah 9:26, 25:21, 27:3, 40:11, 40:14, 41:10, 41:15, 49:1, 49:2, 49:6
- Ezekiel 21:20, 21:28, 25:2, 25:3, 25:5, 25:10
- Daniel 11:41
- Amos 1:13
- Zephaniah 2:8, 2:9
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).