עַמּוֹנִיʻAmmôwnîy

Ammonite (Deuteronomy 23:4; Nehemiah 13:1; 1 Samuel 11:1; 1 Samuel 11:2; 2 Samuel 23:37)

Pronunciation: am-mo-nee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5984

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 21 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 2:20 (That area was once considered the land of the Rephaites, who had lived there, though the Ammonites call them Zamzummites.
  • Deuteronomy 23:3 “No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the Lord.
  • 1 Samuel 11:1 About a month later, King Nahash of Ammon led his army against the Israelite town of Jabesh-gilead. But all the citizens of Jabesh asked for peace. “Make a treaty with us, and we will be your servants,” they pleaded.
  • 1 Samuel 11:2 “All right,” Nahash said, “but only on one condition. I will gouge out the right eye of every one of you as a disgrace to all Israel!”
  • 2 Samuel 23:37 Zelek from Ammon; Naharai from Beeroth, the armor bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah;
  • 1 Kings 11:1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharaoh’s daughter, he married women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and from among the Hittites.
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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).