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Strong's #528 - אָמוֹן

Transliteration

ʼÂmôwn

Phonetics

aw-mone'

Origin

of Egyptian derivation

Parts of Speech

proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Amon or Amun = "to nourish: to be faithful"
1. an Egyptian god, originally the local god of Thebes, later head of the Egyptian pantheon

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (0)

The American Standard Version
did not use
this Strong's Number

BSB (1)

Jeremiah 1

Nahum 1

CSB (1)

Jeremiah 1

Nahum 1

ESV (2)

Deuteronomy 1

1 Chronicles 1

Nahum 1

KJV (2)

Jeremiah 1

Nahum 1

LEB (1)

Nahum 1

LSB (1)

Jeremiah 1

N95 (1)

Jeremiah 1

NAS (1)

Jeremiah 1

Nahum 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (0)

The Young's Literal Translation
did not use
this Strong's Number

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

I. אָמוֺן proper name Amon, an Egyptian god Nahum 3:8; Jeremiah 46:25, compare by Greeks with Zeus (Herod.^{ii. 42}; Diod^i.13), Ἀμμῶν. He was originally the local deity of Thebes (= נאֹ, called נאֹ אָמוֺן Nahum 3:8, compare מִנּאֹ׳א Jeremiah 46:25 ** Spiegelb^{Randglossen, 43ff.} reads נֹא אָמוֺן (as Nahum 3:8) for אָמוֺן נֹא, and finds in both a Thebes in the Delta.), but subsequently became the supreme god of the Egyptian Pantheon, the successor of the sun-god Ra and Song of Solomon -called Amon Ra. He was the secret god, who hid himself and was difficult to find (Amon = concealment, hidden); see Rawl.^{Hist, Anc. Egypt, i. 322} Ebers Ri^HWB. (II. III. אָמוֺן.)

List of Word Forms

אָמ֔וֹן אמון ’ā·mō·wn ’āmōwn aMon