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Amorite, n. and a.|ˈæməraɪt|
[ad. Heb. '⊇mōrî (Akkadian texts called the lands which these people inhabited Amurru(m), lit. ‘West’; cf. Sumerian martu): see -ite1.]
A. n. A member of any of a group of Semitic tribes who dwelt in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria in the second and third millennium B.C., and who are described in Biblical texts as inhabiting the land of Canaan before the arrival of the Israelites; their language.
1535Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xvi. 3 Thy father was an Amorite. 1788Encycl. Brit. I. 625/2 The Amorites first of all peopled the mountains lying to the west of the Dead Sea. 1845Encycl. Metrop. IX. 466/2 The Amorites derived their name from Amorrhæus, the fourth son of Canaan. 1914T. E. Lawrence Let. 6 Feb. (1938) 165 We are digging up well preserved Amorites who were buried naked and headless. 1935[see Mesopotamian a.]. 1958W. F. Albright in J. B. Pritchard Anc. Near East xii. 261 This expression is always in Amorite, transcribed in cuneiform hayaram qatulum. 1981Word 1980 XXXI. 222 Languages with h (Amorite, Hebrew, [etc.]).
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Amorites or their language.
1875Encycl. Brit. I. 747/2 Five of the most powerful of the Amorite kings..formed a confederacy. 1956A. Toynbee Historian's Approach to Relig. iv. 45 Examples of marchmen empire-builders are the Amorite rulers of Hammurabi's reconstituted ‘Empire of Sumer and Akkad’. 1965H. B. Huffmon (title) Amorite personal names in the Mari texts. 1973M. Liverani in D. J. Wiseman People of Old Testament Times v. 108 The general linguistic unity of the Semites in Syria during Amorite times. |