| Strong#: | 567 // yrma 'Emoriy |
| Orig: | n m coll // probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from \\0559\\ in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence |
| NASB: | ==>Amorite(24), Amorites(63). |
| AV=87 | ==>Amorite 87 |
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| Definition: | Amorite = "a sayer"
1) one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed
by the Israelite incursion from Egypt
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| NASB: | perh. mountain dwellers, a Canaanite tribe |
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