Definitions for Amorite

Amorite Am·o·rite

Spelling: [am-uh-rahyt]
IPA: /ˈæm əˌraɪt/

Amorite is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 269 anagrams from letters in Amorite (aeimort).

Definitions for Amorite

noun

  1. a member of one of the principal tribes, or nations, of Canaan before its conquest by the Israelites. II Sam. 12:26–31.
  2. the Semitic language of the Amorites.

Origin of Amorite

1600-10; Hebrew ĕmōr(ī) Amorites + -ite1

Examples for Amorite

The Amorite chieftain then questioned Sinuhe concerning his flight.

Moreover, individual branches of the Amorite stock had names of their own.

Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite and thy mother a Hittite.

The Amorite song of triumph has been preserved in the Book of Numbers.

The Egyptian language was understood at the court of the Amorite chieftain.

It was only on the northern frontier of Palestine and in the kingdom of Sihon that the name of "Amorite" alone was used.

But Amorite kingdoms were established elsewhere on both sides of the Jordan.

The Amorite kingdoms of Sihon and Og fell before their assault.

Amorite tribes and kingdoms were to be found in all parts of Palestine.

Dagon, too, is held by some authorities to have been purely an Amorite divinity.

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