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אִמְרִי S 566 GK 617 n.pr.m. 1. a man of Judah 1 Ch 9:4 ; cf. 2. Ne 3:2 ( = tall ? or eloquent ? ) .

אֲמַרְיָהוּ S 568 GK 619 , אֲמַרְיָה S 568 GK 618 n.pr.m. ( Yah(u) hath promised , cf. Palm. אמרשמשא , Sab. יתעאמר ) long form only 1 Ch 24:23 2 Ch 19:11 ; 31:15 . 1. a Levite 1 Ch 23:19 ; 24:23 (in Dvd ’s time), cf. 1 Ch 5:33 (×2); 6:37 Ezr 7:3 ; vid. also 2. 1 Ch 5:37 (×2); also 3. Ezr 10:42 . 4. chief priest under Jehosh. 2 Ch 19:11 . 5. Levite under Hezekiah 2 Ch 31:15 . 6. son of Hezekiah & great- grandfather of Zephaniah Zp 1:1 . 7. a priest Ne 10:4 ; 12:2 , 13 . 8. a man of Judah Ne 11:4 .

[ מַאֲמָר S 3982 TWOT 118e GK 4411 ] n.m. Est 9:32 word, command ( late; Mish. id. ) cstr. מַאֲמַר Est 1:1 5; 2:20 ; 9:32 .

אַמְרָפֶל S 569 GK 620 n.pr.m. king of Shinar Gn 14:1 , 9 ( prob. = חמרבי ,

Ḫammurabi of Babylon, who reigned c. 2100 B . C ., cf. Schr SBA 1887, xxxi (June 23)

COT ii. 296 f. Dl in De Gen 1887, Excursus ) .

אֶ˜מֶשׁ S 570 TWOT 120 GK 621 adv. yesterday ( etym. dub.; MV after Fl De on Jb 30:3 cf. Sta § 256 c der. from משׁה = Arabic مسا ( ms˒ ), whence مَسَﺁءٌ

( masa˒ā˒un ), evening; v. also in Thes , & cf. Assyrian mušu , night COT Gloss,

Ethiopic ˜˜˜ ( məset ) but also Arabic أَمْسٌ ( ˒amsun ) = Assyrian amšatu , yesterday ) = last night Gn 19:3 4; 31:29 , 42 ( אָמֶשׁ ); = recently 2 K 9:26 .— Jb 30:3 א׳ שֹׁואָה is difficult & uncertain Thes MV al. darkness, gloom of wasteness, so RV , but dub. , cf. D i; G. Hoffm reads אֵם שׁ׳ = the mother of ( all ) the ruined (said of the desert).


Palm. Palmyrene. Mish. Mishna. Schr E. Schrader.

SBA Sitzungsbericht d. Berl. Akademie der Wissenschaften . COT The Cuneiform Inscr. & the Old Test. (Eng. Trans. of KAT 2;, by O.H. Whitehouse).

Dl Friedrich Delitzsch. MV Gesenius, Handwörterbuch über das A. T. , edd. F. Mühlau & W. Volck. Fl H.L. Fleischer.

Sta B Stade, Heb. Gram.

Gloss glossary, rarely = a gloss.


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