hebrew #528 - אָמוֹן Amon (an Eg. god)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance multitude, populous Of Egyptian derivation; Amon (i.e. Ammon or Amn), a deity of Egypt (used only as an adjunct of No') -- multitude, populous. see HEBREW No' Englishman's Concordance Amon or Amun=“to nourish: to be faithful” 1) an Egyptian god, originally the local god of Thebes, later head of the Egyptian pantheon Part of Speech: noun proper masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: of Egyptian derivation Brown-Driver-Briggs I. אָמוֺןproper nameAmon, an Egyptian god Nahum 3:8; Jeremiah 46:25, compare by Greeks with Zeus (Herod.ii. 42; Diodi.13), Ἀμμῶν. He was originally the local deity of Thebes (=נאֹ, called נאֹ אָמוֺןNahum 3:8, compare מִנּאֹ׳אJeremiah 46:25**SpiegelbRandglossen, 43 ff. reads נֹא אָמוֺן (as Nahum 3:8) for אָמוֺן נֹא, and finds in both a Thebes in the Delta.), but subsequently became the supreme god of the Egyptian Pantheon, the successor of the sun-god Ra and so-called Amon Ra. He was the secret god, who hid himself and was difficult to find (Amon=concealment, hidden); see Rawl.Hist, Anc. Egypt, i. 322 Ebers RiHWB. (II. III. אָמוֺן.) Englishman's Concordance (References) |