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Strong's #528 - אָמוֹן

Transliteration
ʼÂmôwn
Phonetics
aw-mone'
Root Word (Etymology)
of Egyptian derivation
Parts of Speech
Proper Name Masculine
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Amon or Amun = “to nourish: to be faithful”

1) an Egyptian god, originally the local god of Thebes, later head of the Egyptian pantheon

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NAS (0)
NAS (1)
Jeremiah 1
HCS (2)
Jeremiah 1
Nahum 1
BSB (1)
Nahum 1
ESV (2)
Deuteronomy 1
1 Chronicles 1
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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 ** SpiegelbRandglossen, 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.)


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אָמ֔וֹן אמון ’ā·mō·wn ’āmōwn aMon
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