עַמּוֹן
Ammon
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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 H5983 appears in the Book of Judges — 27 distinct verses. 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.
Judges
- Judges 3:13 עַמּ֖וֹן n Proper He gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.
- Judges 10:6 עַמּ֔וֹן n Proper The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook Yahweh, and didn't serve him.
- Judges 10:7 עַמּֽוֹן n Proper The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
- Judges 10:9 עַמּוֹן֙ n Proper The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
- Judges 10:11 עַמּ֖וֹן n Proper Yahweh said to the children of Israel, Didn't I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
- Judges 10:17 עַמּ֔וֹן n Proper Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah.
- Judges 10:18 עַמּ֑וֹן n Proper The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, What man is he who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
- Judges 11:4 עַמּ֖וֹן n Proper It happened after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
- Judges 11:5 עַמּ֖וֹן n Proper It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob;
- Judges 11:6 עַמּֽוֹן n Proper and they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
- Judges 11:8 עַמּ֑וֹן n Proper The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore are we turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
- Judges 11:9 עַמּ֔וֹן n Proper Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
- Judges 11:12 עַמּ֖וֹן n Proper Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you to do with me, that you are come to me to fight against my land?
- Judges 11:13 עַמּ֜וֹן n Proper The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.
- Judges 11:14 עַמּֽוֹן n Proper Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;
- Judges 11:15 עַמּֽוֹן n Proper and he said to him, Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn't take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,
- Judges 11:27 עַמּֽוֹן n Proper I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me: Yahweh, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
- Judges 11:28 עַמּ֑וֹן n Proper However the king of the children of Ammon didn't listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
- Judges 11:29 עַמּֽוֹן n Proper Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.
- Judges 11:30 עַמּ֖וֹן n Proper Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
- Judges 11:31 עַמּ֑וֹן n Proper then it shall be, that whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
- Judges 11:32 עַמּ֖וֹן n Proper So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.
- Judges 11:33 עַמּ֔וֹן n Proper He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
- Judges 11:36 עַמּֽוֹן n Proper She said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.
- Judges 12:1 עַמּ֗וֹן n Proper The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go with you? we will burn your house on you with fire.
- Judges 12:2 עַמּ֖וֹן n Proper Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn't save me out of their hand.
- Judges 12:3 עַמּ֔וֹן n Proper When I saw that you didn't save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand: why then are you come up to me this day, to fight against me?
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.
At its core, עמון (ʻAmmôwn) means “Ammon.” First canonically at Genesis 19:38, it enters the text early. It appears 98 verses across 18 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. The word gravitates to Judges (28%), then 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5983 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 →
- 98
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 98 distinct verses.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #407
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 407 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 98 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Judges 27 verses 28%
- 2 Samuel 15 verses 15%
- 1 Chronicles 13 verses 13%
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 98 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 72 verses · 73%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 20 verses · 20%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 6%
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: Ammon 90×
- American Standard Version: Ammon 83×, Children of ammon 4×, Ammon any more 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ammonites 5×, Ammon 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ammon 97×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5983 across 92 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 13 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5983 across 92 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5983 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 97 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5983 across 99 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- Ammon = "tribal"
- a people dwelling in Transjordan descended from Lot through Ben-ammi
Word origin
n. pr. gent. Ammon, 𝔊 Αμμαν, Αμμων (Assyrian Bît Ammanu COTGloss.);—always (except 1 S 11:11 [where however 𝔊 reads בְּנֵי ע׳], ψ 83:8, which have ע׳ alone) בְּנֵי עַמּוֹן, connected by J with בֶּן־עַמִּי son of Lot Gn 19:38 (and meaning of name doubtless sought herein by J; cf. ii. עַם); people apparently akin to Isr., but usually hostile, dwelling E. of Jordan, NE. of Moab, between Arnon and Jabbok: Nu 21:24(×2) (JE), Dt 2:19(×2), 37; 3:11, 16; Jos 12:2; 13:10 (D), v 25 (P), Ju 3:13; 10:6 + 25 times Ju 10–12; 1 S 11:11; 12:12; 14:47; 2 S 8:12; 10:1 + 14 times 2 S 10–12, 17:27; 1 K 11:7, 33; 2 K 23:13; 24:2; 1 Ch 18:11 + 20 times Ch, Am 1:13; Is 11:14; Je 9:25 + 9 times Je, Zp 2:8, 9; Ez 21:25, 33 + 5 times Ez 25; Dn 11:41.—Vid. CheAmmon in Ency. Bib.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עם (ʻam) (H5971) — people.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עַמּוֹן
- (b. h.) pr. n. gent. Ammon, a people descended from Ben Ammi, the son of Lot; mentioned chiefly in connection with Moab. Pes. 119ᵃ בני ע׳. Yad. IV, 3 ע׳ ומואב מעשרין וכ׳ Jewish inhabitants of the land of A. a. M. must give the poor man’s tithes in the Sabbatical years; Yeb. 16ᵃ; Ḥag. 3ᵇ. Gitt. 38ᵃ; Ḥull. 60ᵇ, v. סִיחוֹן; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 14 distinct written forms H5983 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עַמּ֔וֹן | Noun, Proper | Amos 1:13 | 21 |
| עַמּֽוֹן | Noun, Proper | Daniel 11:41 | 21 |
| עַמּ֖וֹן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 2:37 | 17 |
| עַמּ֑וֹן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:11 | 16 |
| עַמּ֜וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 19:3 | 8 |
| עַמּ֗וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 19:7 | 6 |
| עַמּוֹן֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 10:11 | 4 |
| עַמּ֤וֹן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 2:19 | 3 |
| עַמּ֨וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 14:47 | 3 |
| עַמּ֛וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 19:2 | 2 |
| עַמּוֹן֮ | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 12:12 | 2 |
| וְ֭/עַמּוֹן | Noun, Proper | Psalms 83:7 | 1 |
| עַמּ֡וֹן | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 10:6 | 1 |
| עַמּ֧וֹן | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 20:23 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5983, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- עמיאל ʻAmmîyʼêl H5988 Ammiel
- עמיהוד ʻAmmîyhûwd H5989 Ammihud
- עמיזבד ʻAmmîyzâbâd H5990 Ammizabad
- עמיחור ʻAmmîychûwr H5991 Ammihur
- עמינדב ʻAmmîynâdâb H5992 Amminadab
- עמי נדיב ʻAmmîy Nâdîyb H5993 Amminadib
- עמישדי ʻAmmîyshadday H5996 Ammishaddai
- עמעד ʻAmʻâd H6008 Amad
- עמרם ʻAmrâm H6019 Amram
- עמוני ʻAmmôwnîy H5984 Ammonite
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. 10 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 (Ammon). 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
Another form of the name Ben-ammi, the son of Lot (Gen. 19:38). This name is also used for his posterity (Ps. 83:7).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(sons of renown, mountaineers), Am'monites, Children of Ammon, A people descended from Ben-ammi, the son of Lot by his younger daughter. (Genesis 19:38) comp Psal 83:7,8 The Ammonites are frequently mentioned with the Moabites (descendants of Ben-ammi's half-brother), and sometimes under the same name. Comp. (Judges 10:6; 2 Chronicles 20:1; Zephaniah 2:8) etc. The precise position of the territory of the Ammonites is not ascertainable. In the earliest mention of them, (2:20) they are said to have dwelt in their place, Jabbok being their border. (Numbers 21:24; 2:37; 3:16) (i.e. Land or country is, however, but rarely ascribed to them. Their capital city was Rabbath, called also Rabbath Ammon on the Jabbok. We find everywhere traces of the fierce habits of maranders in their incursions.) (1 Samuel 11:2; Amos 1:13) and a very high degree of crafty cruelty to their toes. (Jeremiah 41:6,7; Judges 17:11,12) Moab was the settled and civilized half of the nation of Lot, and Ammon formed its predatory and Bedouin section. On the west of Jordan they never obtained a footing. The hatred in which the Ammonites were held by Israel is stated to have arisen partly from their denial of assistance, (23:4) to the Israelites on their approach to Canaan. But whatever its origin the animosity continued in force to the latest date. The tribe was governed by a king, (Judges 11:12) etc.; (1 Samuel 12:12; 2 Samuel 10:1; Jeremiah 40:14) and by "princes." (2 Samuel 10:3; 1 Chronicles 19:3) The divinity of the tribe was Molech [Molech], and they were gross idolaters.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a people; the son of my people
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 94 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 98 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 19:38
- Numbers 21:24
- Deuteronomy 2:19
- Joshua 12:2
- Judges 3:13
- 1 Samuel 11:11
- 2 Samuel 8:12
- 1 Kings 11:7
- 2 Kings 23:13
- 1 Chronicles 18:11
- 2 Chronicles 20:1
- Psalms 83:7
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
