עַמּוֹנִית
Ammonitess
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Ammonitess’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5985 appears — 4 distinct verses across 2 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.
1 Kings 2 verses
- 1 Kings 14:21 הָ/עַמֹּנִֽית ptcl def.art + n Gentilic fs Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
- 1 Kings 14:31 הָ/עַמֹּנִ֑ית ptcl def.art + n Gentilic fs Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 2 verses
- 2 Chronicles 12:13 הָֽ/עַמֹּנִֽית ptcl def.art + n Gentilic fs So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
- 2 Chronicles 24:26 הָֽ/עַמּוֹנִ֔ית ptcl def.art + n Gentilic fs These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
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.
עמונית — transliterated ʻAmmôwnîyth — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Ammonitess.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than half of its appearances fall in 1 Kings. Debuting at 1 Kings 14:21, it then recurs through the corpus. See 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5985 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Kings 2 verses 50%
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 50%
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 4 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 50%
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: Ammonitess 4×
- American Standard Version: Ammonitess 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ammonitess 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5985 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5985 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5985 across 4 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.
- Ammonitess = see Ammon " tribal"
- a woman of Ammon
Word origin
adj. gent. Ammonite;—abs. ms. עַמּוֹנִי as subst. Dt 23:4 an Ammonite (generic), so עַמֹּנִי Ne 13:1; הָעַמּוֹנִי of individual 1 S 11:1, 2; 2 S 23:37 = 1 Ch 11:39; Ne 2:19, so הָעַמֹּנִי 2:10; 3:35; fs. הָעַמֹּנִית 1 K 14:21 = 2 Ch 12:13; 1 K 14:31, so הָעַמּוֹנִית 2 Ch 24:26; הָעַמֹּנִי as subst. coll. Ezr 9:1; mpl. as subst. עַמֹּנִים 1 K 11:5, הָע׳ Dt 2:20; Ne 4:1, הָעַמּוֹ׳ 2 Ch 26:8 (on 20:1 v. מְעוּנִים); fpl. as adj. עַמֳּנִיֹּת 1 K 11:1, so Ne 13:23 Qr, Kt עמוניות.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עמוני (ʻAmmôwnîy) (H5984) — Ammonite.
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.
עַמּוֹנִי
- preced.) Ammonite. Y. Snh. X, 28ᵈ top היין הע׳ שהוא קשה Ammonite wine which is strong; Bab. Snh. 106ᵃ. Yeb. VIII, 3. Ib. 69ᵃ, a. e. עמוני ולא עמונית a converted male Ammonite is excluded from intermarriage, but not a female, v. מוֹאָבִי; 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 4 distinct written forms H5985 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הָ/עַמֹּנִ֑ית | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 14:31 | 1 |
| הָ/עַמֹּנִֽית | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 14:21 | 1 |
| הָֽ/עַמֹּנִֽית | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 12:13 | 1 |
| הָֽ/עַמּוֹנִ֔ית | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 24:26 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Ammonitess). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
a woman of Ammonite race. (1 Kings 14:21,31; 2 Chronicles 12:13)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 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
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.
