Amorite: meaning of the name

Amorite in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Amorite in the Bible

• Amorite, son of Canaan

  4 verses · first mentioned in Genesis 10:16

Amorite in Scripture

“Amorite” appears in 14 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 10:16

  And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

• Genesis 14:13

  And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.

• Genesis 48:22

  Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

• Exodus 33:2

  And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

• Exodus 34:11

  Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• Numbers 32:39

  And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.

• Deuteronomy 2:24

  Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.

• Joshua 9:1

  And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;