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the Amorites Amorite

(dwellers on the summits, mountaineers), one of the chief nations who possessed the land of Canaan before its conquest by the Israelites. As dwelling on the elevated portions of the country, they are contrasted with the Canaanites, who were the dwellers in the lowlands; and the two thus formed the main broad divisions of the Holy Land, (Numbers 13:29) and see (14:7; 1:7,20) "Mountain of the Amorites;" (1:44; Joshua 5:1; 10:6; 11:3) They first occupied the barren heights west of the Dead Sea, at the place called afterwards Engedi. From this point they stretched west to Hebron. At the date of the invasion of the country, Sihon, their then king, had taken the rich pasture land south of the Jabbok. This rich tract, bounded by the Jabbok on the north, the Arnon on the south, the Jordan on the west and "the wilderness" on the east, (Judges 11:21,22) was, perhaps in the most special sense the "land of the Amorites," (Numbers 21:31; Joshua 12:2,3; 13:10; Judges 11:21,22) but their possessions are distinctly stated to have extended to the very foot of Hermon, (3:8; 4:48) embracing "Gilead and all Bashan," (3:10) with the Jordan valley on the east of the river. (4:49) After the conquest of Canaan nothing of importance is heard of the Amorites in the Bible.

Strong's Hebrew

567. Emori -- perhaps "mountain dwellers," a Canaanite tribe
... Word Origin from amar Definition perhaps "mountain dwellers," a Canaanite
tribe NASB Word Usage Amorite (24), Amorites (63). Amorite. ...
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Library

How Moses Conquered Sihon and Og Kings of the Amorites, and ...
... But the Amorite king was not now like to himself when the Hebrews were ... Such was the
destruction which overtook the Amorites, who were neither sagacious in ...
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Canaan
... Like the Amorites and the Amorite tribe of Jebusites at Jerusalem, the Hittites
were mountaineers.[2] The hot river-valleys and the sea-coast were inhabited by ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter ii canaan.htm

The Mountainous Country of Judea.
... to the mountain of the Amorite, as our Lord commanded us, and came to Cadesh-barnea.
Then I said unto you, You are now come to the mountain of the Amorites," &c ...
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The Nations of the South-East
... The Amorites had already robbed him of the fairest portion of his dominions; Moab
north of the Arnon had fallen into their hands. The Amorite song of triumph ...
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John Chapter viii. 37-47
... The prophet says to those very Jews, "Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother
a Hittite." [781] The Amorites were not a nation that gave origin to the Jews. ...
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Babylonia and Assyria
... Mabug by name, was made "Father" or "Governor of the land of the Amorites." His
son ... army of the invaders in Syria at the hands of Abram and his Amorite allies. ...
/.../early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter vi babylonia and assyria.htm

Introduction
... The highlands of Canaan had been peopled by the Amorites, a tall fair race, akin ...
Egyptian Pharaoh Shishak in the kingdom of Judah all show the Amorite and not ...
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Chapter xiv
... The last group attacked and vanquished are the "Amorites," who dwelt as far north ...
river, who was dwelling by the terebinths of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother ...
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Hooker -- the Activity of Faith; Or, Abraham's Imitators
... faith. "Thy father was an Amorite," saith the Scripture: that is, thou
followest the steps of the Amorites in thy conversation. So ...
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Chapter x
... The "Amorite" dwelled mostly in the mountains, especially around the Lebanon range ...
of the Conquest that oftentimes all Canaanites are simply called Amorites (cf ...
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