Amorite
Morphhology:
Proper Name Noun Gentilic Location
Definition:
Someone descended from Amor, first mentioned at Gen.10.16; descended from Canaan (
h3667); along with Sidon (
h6721), Heth (
h2845), Jebusite (
h2983), Girgashite (
h1622), Hivite (
h2340), Arkite (
h6208), Sinite (
h5513), Arvadite (
h721), Zemarite (
h6786) and Hamathite (
h2577) § Amorite = "a sayer" one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt
Morphhology:
Noun Masculine
Definition:
an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes; Amorite.; probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from
h559 (אָמַר) in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence; thus, a mountaineer