How to Pronounce Amorite

What does Amorite mean?

Amorite means “bitter; a rebel; a babbler”.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.

Who was Amorite?

(dwellers on the summits, mountaineers), one of the chief nations who possessed the land of Canaan before its conquest by the Israelites. As dwelling on the elevated portions of the country, they are contrasted with the Canaanites, who were the dwellers in the lowlands; and the two thus formed the main broad divisions of the Holy Land, (Numbers 13:29) and see (14:7; 1:7,20) “Mountain of the Amorites;” (1:44; Joshua 5:1; 10:6; 11:3) They first occupied the barren heights west of the Dead Sea, at the place called afterwards Engedi. From this point they stretched west to Hebron.

Adapted from Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863), public domain.

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