International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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Amal

a'-mal (`amal, "toiler"): A son of Helem of the tribe of Asher (1Ch 7:35).

434

Amalek

am'-a-lek (`amaleq): The son, by his concubine Timna, of Eliphaz, the eldest son of Esau. He was one of the chiefs (the King James Version dukes) of Edom (Ge 36:12,16). SeeAMALE...

435

Amalek; Amalekite

am'-a-lek, a-mal'-e-kit, am'-a-lek-it (`amaleq, `amaleqi): A tribe dwelling originally in the region south of Judah, the wilderness of et-Tih where the Israelites came into conf...

436

Amam

a'-mam ('amam): An unidentified town in southern Palestine, which fell to Judah In the allotment of the land; occurs only inJos 15:26.

437

Aman

a'-man (Aman; Codex Vaticanus reads Adam): Tobit 14:10; Additions to Esther 12:6; 16:10,17, probably in each case for Haman, the arch-enemy of the Jews in the canonical Book of ...

438

Amana

a-ma'-na, ('amanah): A mountain mentioned inSo 4:8along with Lebanon, Senir and Hermon. The name probably means the "firm," or "constant." "From the top of Amana" is mistranslat...

439

Amariah

am-a-ri'-a ('amaryah and 'amaryahu, "the Lord has said"; compare HPN, 180, 285).(1) A Levite in the line of Aaron-Eleazar; a son of Meraioth and grandfather of Zadok (1Ch 6:7,52...

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Amarias

am-a-ri'-as (A, Amarias; B, Amartheias) = Amariah number 3: An ancestor of Ezra (1 Esdras 8:2; 2 Esdras 1:2).

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Amarna, Tell El-

tel-el-a-mar'-na. SeeTELL EL-AMARNA.

442

Amasa

a-ma'-sa (`amasa', or read `ammishai, i.e. `am yishai, "people of Jesse"): The form `amasa', is based upon a mistaken etymology (from = `amac "to burden").(1) According to2Sa 17...

443

Amasai

a-ma'-si (`amasay, perhaps rather to be read `ammishay; so Wellhausen, IJG, II, 24, n.2):(1) A name in the genealogy of Kohath, son of Elkanah, a Levite of the Kohathite family ...

444

Amashsai

a-mash'-si `amashcay, probably a textual error for `amashay; the ("s") implies a reading `-M-C-Y, based on a mistaken derivation from '-M-C. The original reading may have been `...

445

Amasiah

am-a-si'-a (`amacyah, "Yah bears"): One of the captains of Jehoshaphat (compare2Ch 17:16).

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Amath; Amathis

a'-math, am'-a-this (1 Macc 12:25). SeeHAMATH.

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Amatheis

am-a-the'-is. SeeEMATHEIS.

448

Amazed

a-mazd': A term which illustrates the difficulty of expressing in one English word the wide range of startled emotion, wonder, astonishment, awe, covered, in the Old Testament, ...

449

Amaziah

am-a-zi'-a ('amatsyah, 'amatsyahu, "Yahweh is mighty";2Ki 14:1-20;2Ch 25). Son of Jehoash, and tenth king of Judah. Amaziah had a peaceable accession at the age of 25. A deplete...

450

Ambassador

am-bas'-a-dor (mal'akh, "messenger"; 'luts, "interpreter"; tsir, "to go"; hence a messenger; presbeuo, "to act as an ambassador," literally, to be older): An ambassador is an of...

451

Ambassage

am'-ba-saj (presbeia, "an embassy," a body of ambassadors on the message entrusted to them): Twice used by Christ(1) in the parable of the Pounds, of the citizens who hated the ...

452

Amber

am'-ber. SeeSTONES, PRECIOUS.

453

Ambitious

am-bish'-us (philotimeomai, "to be strongly desirous," "strive earnestly," "make it one's aim"): Given as a marginal reading inRo 15:20("being ambitious to bring good tidings"),...

454

Ambush

am'-boosh ('arabh, "to set an ambush"; ma'arabh, "an ambush"): A military stratagem in which a body of men are placed in concealment to surprise an enemy unawares, or to attack ...

455

Ambushment

am'-boosh-ment (as above) has now disappeared in2Ch 20:22, where the Revised Version (British and American) gives for "ambushment" "liers-in-wait." It still remains in2Ch 13:13w...

456

Amen

a-men' (in ritual speech and in singing a-men', a'men) ('amen; amen, = "truly," "verily"): Is derived from the reflexive form of a verb meaning "to be firm," or "to prop." It oc...

457

Amerce

a-murs': Found in the King James Version only inDe 22:19, "And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver." Amerce is a legal term derived from the French (a = "at"; ...

458

American Revised Version

a-mer'-i-kan re-vizd' vur'-shun.1. History:On July 7, 1870, it was moved in the Lower House of the Convocation of Canterbury that in the work of revision the cooperation of Amer...

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Amethyst

am'-e-thist. SeeSTONES, PRECIOUS.