King James Bible Dictionary

Builder.

1. The governor of Samaria in the time of Ahab. The prophet Micaiah was committed to his custody (1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chronicles 18:25).

2. The son of Manasseh, and fourteenth king of Judah. He restored idolatry, and set up the images which his father had cast down. Zephaniah (1:4; 3:4, 11) refers to the moral depravity prevailing in this king's reign.

He was assassinated (2 Kings 21:18-26: 2 Chronicles 33:20-25) by his own servants, who conspired against him.

3. An Egyptian god, usually depicted with a human body and the head of a ram, referred to in Jeremiah 46:25, where the word "multitudes" in the Authorized Version is more appropriately rendered "Amon" in the Revised Version. In Nahum 3:8 the expression "populous No" of the Authorized version is rendered in the Revised Version "No-amon." Amon is identified with Ra, the sun-god of Heliopolis.

4. Nehemiah 7:59.

faithful; true

1. Governor of the city of Samaria
1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chronicles 18:25

2. King of Judah
2 Kings 21:18-26; 2 Chronicles 33:21-25; Zephaniah 1:1; Matthew 1:10

3. Ancestor of one of the families of the Nethinim

General references
Nehemiah 7:59

Called Ami
Ezra 2:57

(builder).

1. One of Ahab's governors. (1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chronicles 18:25)
2. King of Judah, son and successor of Manasseh, reigned two years, from B.C. 642 to 640. Amon devoted himself wholly to the service of false gods, but was killed in a conspiracy, and was succeeded by his son Josiah.

(the mysterious), an Egyptian divinity, whose name occurs in that of No-amon. (Nahum 3:8) Amen was one of the eight gods of the first order and chief of the triad of Thebes. He was worshipped at that city as Amen-Ra, or "Amen the Sun."

AMONG',

AMONGST', preposition [Gr. See Mingle.]

1. In a general or primitive sense, mixed or mingled with; as tares among wheat.

2. Conjoined or associated with, or making part of the number.

Blessed art thou among women. Luke 1:1.

3. Of the number; as, there is not one among a thousand, possessing the like qualities.

AMO'NIAN, adjective [from Amon or Hamon, a title of Jupiter, or rather of the sun. Heb.]

Pertaining to Jupiter Amon, or to his temple and worship in upper Egypt.