אָמוֹץ
Amoz
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Amoz’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H531 appears — 13 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Kings 3 verses
- 2 Kings 19:2 אָמֽוֹץ n Proper He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
- 2 Kings 19:20 אָמ֔וֹץ n Proper Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard [you].
- 2 Kings 20:1 אָמ֜וֹץ n Proper In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live.
2 Chronicles 3 verses
- 2 Chronicles 26:22 אָמ֖וֹץ n Proper Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
- 2 Chronicles 32:20 אָמ֛וֹץ n Proper Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
- 2 Chronicles 32:32 אָמוֹץ֙ n Proper Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
Isaiah 7 verses
- Isaiah 1:1 אָמ֔וֹץ n Proper The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
- Isaiah 2:1 אָמ֑וֹץ n Proper This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 13:1 אָמֽוֹץ n Proper The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
- Isaiah 20:2 אָמוֹץ֮ n Proper at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put your shoe from off your foot. He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
- Isaiah 37:2 אָמ֖וֹץ n Proper He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
- Isaiah 37:21 אָמ֔וֹץ n Proper Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
- Isaiah 38:1 אָמ֜וֹץ n Proper In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Amoz” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name אמוץ (ʼÂmôwts). It clusters heavily in Isaiah, which alone accounts for 54% of its uses. It turns up in 13 verses across 3 books, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is 2 Kings 19:2. See 13-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H531 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 7 verses 54%
- 2 Kings 3 verses 23%
- 2 Chronicles 3 verses 23%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 13 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 77%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 23%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Amoz 13×
- American Standard Version: Amoz 13×
- Berean Standard Bible: Amoz 13×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Amoz 13×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H531 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H531 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H531 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H531 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Amoz = "strong"
- father of Isaiah
Word origin
n.pr.m. father of Isaiah ( = following) Is 1:1; 2:1; 13:1; 20:2; 37:2, 21; 38:1 = 2 K 19:2, 20; 20:1; 2 Ch 26:22; 32:20, 32.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אמץ (ʼâmats) (H553) — to be strong.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H531 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אָמ֔וֹץ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 19:20 | 3 |
| אָמ֖וֹץ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 26:22 | 2 |
| אָמ֜וֹץ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 20:1 | 2 |
| אָמֽוֹץ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 19:2 | 2 |
| אָמ֑וֹץ | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 2:1 | 1 |
| אָמ֛וֹץ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 32:20 | 1 |
| אָמוֹץ֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 32:32 | 1 |
| אָמוֹץ֮ | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 20:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H531, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- אמיץ ʼammîyts H533 strong
- אמץ ʼâmôts H554 strong
- אמץ ʼômets H555 strength
- אמצה ʼamtsâh H556 strength
- מאמץ maʼămâts H3981 strength
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Amoz). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Strong, the father of the prophet Isaiah (2 Kings 19:2, 20; 20:1; Isa. 1:1; 2:1). As to his personal history little is positively known. He is supposed by some to have been the "man of God" spoken of in 2 Chr. 25:7, 8.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(strong), father of the prophet Isaiah, and, according to rabbinical tradition, brother of Amaziah king of Judah. (2 Kings 19:2,20; 20:1; Isaiah 1:1) (B.C. before 756.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
strong; robust
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 13 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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