Bible Lexicons

 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.)