Word

אָמוֹן

ʼÂmôwn · H528 · Hebrew · proper noun · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

Amon

Deity; Egypt

Examples
Jeremiah 46:25 The LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her gods and her kings, indeed, Pharaoh and those who trust in him.
Nahum 3:8 Are you better than No-amon, Which was situated by the canals of the Nile, With water surrounding her, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall consisted of the sea?

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

חֵילouter wall 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom 2
אֵלto, toward 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 of Thebes, the Egyptian city and its associated deity, in the LORD's pronouncement of judgment (Jeremiah 46:25; Nahum 3:8).
Names of People003001007: This entry carries no ordinary personal-name sense here; it functions as the proper name attached to the city of Thebes, called "No-amon" (Nahum 3:8).
Names of Deities003001004: אָמוֹן names the Egyptian deity of Thebes, invoked in the LORD's pronouncement of judgment against Egypt's gods (Jeremiah 46:25, "I am going to punish Amon of Thebes").

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H528. Amon I. אָמוֺן proper name Amon, an Egyptian god Nah 3:8; Jer 46:25, compare by…

H528. Amon
I. אָמוֺן proper name Amon, an Egyptian god Nah 3:8; Jer 46:25, compare by Greeks with Zeus (Herod.ii. 42; Diodi.13), Ἀμμῶν. He was originally the local deity of Thebes (= נאֹ, called אָמוֺן נאֹ Nah 3:8, compare ׳א מִנּאֹ Jer 46:25 **SpiegelbRandglossen, 43 ff. reads אָמוֺן נֹא (as Nah 3:8) for נֹא אָמוֺן, 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.)

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