עׇמְרִיʻOmrîy
Omri, an Israelite
Pronunciation: om-ree' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6018
Meanings
1. Omri, king of Israel (1 Kings 16:16; 1 Kings 16:1-200; 2 Kings 8:26)
2.
a. name in Benjamin (1 Chronicles 7:8)
b. in Judah (1 Chronicles 9:4)
c. in Issachar (1 Chronicles 27:18)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 18 times in the Bible.
- 1 Kings 16:16 When they heard that Zimri had committed treason and had assassinated the king, that very day they chose Omri, commander of the army, as the new king of Israel.
- 1 Kings 16:17 So Omri led the entire army of Israel up from Gibbethon to attack Tirzah, Israel’s capital.
- 1 Kings 16:21 But now the people of Israel were split into two factions. Half the people tried to make Tibni son of Ginath their king, while the other half supported Omri.
- 1 Kings 16:22 But Omri’s supporters defeated the supporters of Tibni. So Tibni was killed, and Omri became the next king.
- 1 Kings 16:23 Omri began to rule over Israel in the thirty-first year of King Asa’s reign in Judah. He reigned twelve years in all, six of them in Tirzah.
- 1 Kings 16:25 But Omri did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, even more than any of the kings before him.
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).