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2 Samuel 1

2 Sam. 1:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto me, Who art thou? And I answered
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
him, I am an Amalekite
`Amaleqiy (Hebrew #6003)
patronymically from 6002; an Amalekite (or collectively the Amalekites) or descendants of Amalek: --Amalekite(-s).
Pronounce: am-aw-lay-kee'
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Cross References

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an Amalekite.
Gen. 14:7• 7And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwelt at Hazazon-Tamar. (Gen. 14:7)
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Ex. 17:8‑16• 8And Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
 9And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us men, and go out, fight with Amalek; to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.
 10And Joshua did as Moses had said to him, to fight with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
 11And it came to pass when Moses raised his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
 12And Moses' hands were heavy; then they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on this side, and one on that side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
 13And Joshua broke the power of Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
 14And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens.
 15And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi.
 16And he said, For the hand is on the throne of Jah; Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation! (Ex. 17:8‑16)
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Num. 24:20• 20And he saw Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, Amalek is the first of the nations, but his latter end shall be for destruction. (Num. 24:20)
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Deut. 25:17‑19• 17Remember what Amalek did unto thee on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt;
 18how he met thee on the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all the feeble that lagged behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary, and he feared not God.
 19And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God shall have given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; thou shalt not forget it. (Deut. 25:17‑19)
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1 Sam. 15:3• 3Now go and smite Amalek, and destroy utterly all that they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. (1 Sam. 15:3)
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1 Sam. 27:8• 8And David and his men went up and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the Gerzites, and the Amalekites: for those were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, and as far as the land of Egypt. (1 Sam. 27:8)
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1 Sam. 30:1,13,17• 1And it came to pass, when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid upon the south, and upon Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag and burned it with fire;
 13And David said to him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant of an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.
 17And David smote them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day; and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, who rode upon camels, and fled. (1 Sam. 30:1,13,17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he said to me, Who art thou? And I said to him, I am an Amalekite.