Ammon: meaning of the name

Ammon in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Ammon

• Ammon

Ammon in Scripture

“Ammon” appears in 85 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 19:38

  And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben–ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

• Numbers 21:24

  And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

• Deuteronomy 2:19

  And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.

• Deuteronomy 2:37

  Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the Lord our God forbad us.

• Deuteronomy 3:11

  For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

• Deuteronomy 3:16

  And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

• Joshua 12:2

  Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

• Joshua 13:10

  And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;