Word

אָמוֹן

ʼÂmôwn · H526 · Hebrew · proper noun · 17 occurrences

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This name belongs to 3 people

Amonking15 verses
Amonservant2 verses
Amongovernor2 verses

Meanings

Amon

A man, son of Manasseh and father of Josiah, king of Judah

Examples
2 Kings 21:18 And Manasseh lay down with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza, and his son Amon became king in his place.
2 Kings 21:19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
2 Kings 21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house.
Amon

A man, governor of Samaria in the time of Ahab

Examples
1 Kings 22:26 Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;
2 Chronicles 18:25 Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;
Amon

A man, also known as Ami, a family head among the servants of Solomon after the exile

Examples
Nehemiah 7:59 the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the sons of Amon.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

7 occurrences in 4 groups

בֵּןson 2
מֶלֶךְking 2
שַׂרcommander, chief, official 2
הוּאhe, she, it 1

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

מָלַךְto reign, to be king 2
זָבַחto sacrifice, to slaughter 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 2

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

אֵלto, toward 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 3 groups

בֵּןson 4
דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
עֶבֶדservant, slave 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Professions001001003009: This entry carries no craftsman sense of its own; it names Amon the governor of the city to whom Micaiah was returned (1 Kings 22:26) and, separately, King Amon of Judah, Manasseh's son (2 Kings 21:18-19).
Names of People003001007: אָמוֹן functions here as a personal name, borne by a city governor (1 Kings 22:26) and by Manasseh's son who succeeded him as king of Judah (2 Kings 21:18-19).
Names of Deities003001004: This entry carries no divine-name sense of its own; both bearers of this name are human, the governor of 1 Kings 22:26 and King Amon of 2 Kings 21:18-19, not deities.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H526. Amon אָמִי proper name, masculine Ezr 2:57 +?אָמוֺן Neh 7:59. III. אָמוֺן proper…

H526. Amon
אָמִי proper name, masculine Ezr 2:57 +?אָמוֺן Neh 7:59.
III. אָמוֺן proper name, masculine (master-workman) (a) king of Judah 2Ki 18:19, 2Ki 18:23, 2Ki 18:24, 2Ki 18:25; 1Ch 3:14; 2Ch 33:20-21, 2Ch 33:22, 2Ch 33:23, 2Ch 33:25; Jer 1:2; Jer 25:3; (b) captain of a city 1Ki 22:26; 2Ch 18:25; (c) one of the line of Solomon's servants Neh 7:59 = אָמִי Ezr 2:57.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0