Amon
<< 527
528. Amon

Amon: an Eg. god
Original Word: אָמוֹן
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Amon
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-mone')
Short Definition: Amon

Word Origin
of foreign origin
Definition
an Eg. god
NASB Word Usage
Amon (1), No-amon* (1).

I. אָמוֺן proper name Amon, an Egyptian god Nahum 3:8; Jeremiah 46:25, compare by Greeks with Zeus (Herod.ii. 42; Diodi.13), Ἀμμῶν. He was originally the local deity of Thebes (= נאֹ, called נאֹ אָמוֺן Nahum 3:8, compare מִנּאֹ ׳א Jeremiah 46:25 **SpiegelbRandglossen, 43 ff. 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 so-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 RiHWB. (II. III. אָמוֺן.)



multitude, populous

Of Egyptian derivation; Amon (i.e. Ammon or Amn), a deity of Egypt (used only as an adjunct of No') -- multitude, populous.

see HEBREW No'

hā·’um·mîm — 1 Occ.
lə·’um·mō·ṯām — 1 Occ.
’um·mō·wṯ — 1 Occ.
’u·may·yā — 5 Occ.
’um·māh — 1 Occ.
’um·may·yā — 2 Occ.
’ā·mō·wn — 1 Occ.
’ā·mōn — 17 Occ.
’ā·mō·wn — 1 Occ.
hā·’ā·mō·wn — 1 Occ.
’ê·mun — 1 Occ.
’ĕ·mū·nîm — 4 Occ.
be·’ĕ·mū·nāh — 8 Occ.
be·’ĕ·mū·nā·ṯām — 1 Occ.
be·’ĕ·mū·nā·ṯe·ḵā — 2 Occ.
be·’ĕ·mū·nā·ṯî — 1 Occ.
be·’ĕ·mū·nā·ṯōw — 2 Occ.
’ĕ·mū·nāh — 9 Occ.
’ĕ·mū·naṯ — 1 Occ.
’ĕ·mū·nā·ṯə·ḵā — 8 Occ.


Strong's Hebrew 528
1 Occurrence


’ā·mō·wn — 1 Occ.

Nahum 3:8
BIB: הֲתֵֽיטְבִי֙ מִנֹּ֣א אָמ֔וֹן הַיֹּֽשְׁבָה֙ בַּיְאֹרִ֔ים
INT: better No multitude was situated of the Nile

1 Occurrence


<< 527
528. Amon

Strong's Numbers