Hebrew word · H3726
הָעַמּוֹנִי
ha'amoni
-ammoni
'The Ammonite': a person or people from Ammon, the kingdom east of the Jordan centred on Rabbah (modern Amman). Here, with kephar, it forms the name 'Village of the Ammonite(s)'.
Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
Combined with ka.phar (כָּפָר "Chephar" H3723)
§ Chephar-haammonai = "village of the Ammonites"
a village in Benjamin
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
From the study of Joshua 18:24
- Range of meaning
'The Ammonite': a person or people from Ammon, the kingdom east of the Jordan centred on Rabbah (modern Amman). Here, with kephar, it forms the name 'Village of the Ammonite(s)'.
- Against the English
KJV 'Chephar-haammonai' and YLT 'Chephar-Haammonai' keep the Hebrew article ha- and follow the vowels the scribes said to read. BSB and WEB 'Chephar-ammoni' drop the article. None of them translate the meaning.
- Used elsewhere in the period
Ammonites appear often as Israel's neighbours and rivals: Judges 10–11, 1 Samuel 11, 2 Samuel 10–12, Nehemiah 2:10 (Tobiah 'the Ammonite'). There are no other clear examples of a settlement inside Israel named after them.
Where it appears
Joshua · 1
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Joshua 18:24 הָֽעַמֹּנָ֛ה <the> Ammonah
Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba—twelve cities, along with their villages.
Here: Completes the name: 'Village of the Ammonite(s)'. The name points to a settlement once linked with people from Ammon, the kingdom east of the Jordan. Where it was has not been identified.
Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.