Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H6021
עֲמָשָׂא
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Amasa
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻĂmâsâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6021is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6021
Amasa, the name of two Israelites
The King James renders it: Amasa.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Amasa is rendered "Amasa". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 17:25Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.
2 Samuel 17:25עֲמָשָׂ֗א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's sixteen uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Amasa8
- and Amasa5
- and to Amasa2
- to Amasa1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֲמָלֵקִי | Amaleqi | Amalekite | Uses12 |
The words it stands beside
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַעֲמָשָׂ֖א2
- עֲמָשָׂ֔א2
- עֲמָשָׂ֖א2
- וְלַֽעֲמָשָׂא֙1
- וְלַעֲמָשָׂ֤א1
- וַעֲמָשָׂ֣א1
- וַעֲמָשָׂ֨א1
- וַעֲמָשָׂ֛א1
- לַעֲמָשָׂ֔א1
- עֲמָשָׂ֗א1
- עֲמָשָׂ֨א1
- עֲמָשָׂ֥א1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)8HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)5HC/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)2HC/R/Npm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm
2 Samuel
eleven uses
Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.
- עֲמָשָׂ֗אʾamasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Amasa
- וַעֲמָשָׂ֣אvaamasa'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Amasa
And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
- וְלַֽעֲמָשָׂא֙velaamasa'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Amasa
Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
- עֲמָשָׂ֔אʾamasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Amasa
So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he took longer than the time allotted him.
- עֲמָשָׂ֖אʾamasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Amasa
And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.
- וַעֲמָשָׂ֖אvaamasa'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Amasa
“Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.
- לַעֲמָשָׂ֔אlaamasa'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Amasa
- עֲמָשָׂ֖אʾamasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Amasa
Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.
- וַעֲמָשָׂ֨אvaamasa'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Amasa
But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the road, and when the man saw that all the troops were stopping there, he dragged the body off the road into a field and threw a garment over it.
- וַעֲמָשָׂ֛אvaamasa'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Amasa
- עֲמָשָׂ֨אʾamasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Amasa
1 Kings
two uses
Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with the blood of war the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.
- וְלַעֲמָשָׂ֤אvelaamasa'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Amasa
The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
- עֲמָשָׂ֥אʾamasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Amasa
1 Chronicles
two uses
Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
- עֲמָשָׂ֑אʾamasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Amasa
- עֲמָשָׂ֔אʾamasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Amasa
2 Chronicles
one use
Then some of the leaders of the Ephraimites—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—stood in opposition to those arriving from the war.
- וַעֲמָשָׂ֖אvaamasa'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Amasa
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.