Amorite
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- proper noun
- Summon Mamre, the Amorite... and Aner and Eshcol, his brothers who are confederates.
- Amorites and Hittites
Examples
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In the historical accounts, many Amorites established powerful city-states in the Near East.
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By the time of the Exodus, in the mid-1400s, they had been joined by the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites.
Fiction book (2002) -
I am Mambre, the Amorite.
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Of the Canaanites, your father was an Amorite.
Academic text (1994) -
Ambassador of the land of the Amorites.
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Into this Mesopotamian vacuum of power came ever more Amorite tribes, now with royal ambitions.
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Many historians believe that the Amorites are an offshoot of the Canaanites who came originally from the Arabian Peninsula.
Academic text (1994) -
Its original inhabitants were not Jews but Canaanites, Amorites, Jebusites, Hittites, and other races, each of whom had a culture and language as well as art, industry, and agriculture.
Academic text (1994) -
Abraham was considered a patriarch among the Amorites of ancient Mesopotamia.
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The Amorite people are noted for their contribution to the development of early civilizations in the region.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Amorite = Amor (opaque) = Amor + ite
Built from the ethnonym plus '-ite' to denote a member of the people; because 'Amor' is not a familiar English lexical item, the derivation is not transparently useful for learners.
Etymology
An Amorite was a member of the ancient people called the Amorites, who lived in the Near East in the lands of Mesopotamia and Syria. So, calling someone an Amorite means they belonged to that people and their culture.