How to Pronounce Amos
AY-muhs
Amos is pronounced AY-muhs (ˈeɪməʊs): two syllables, stress on the first.
What does Amos mean?
Amos means “loading; weighty”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
Who was Amos?
Borne; a burden, one of the twelve minor prophets. He was a native of Tekota, the modern Tekua, a town about 12 miles south-east of Bethlehem. He was a man of humble birth, neither a “prophet nor a prophet’s son,” but “an herdman and a dresser of sycomore trees,” R.V. He prophesied in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea (Amos 1:1; 7:14, 15; Zech. 14:5), who survived him a few years. Under Jeroboam II. the kingdom of Israel rose to the zenith of its prosperity; but that was followed by the prevalence of luxury and vice and idolatry.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
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