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2 Samuel 20:10
“But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H6021 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Amasa, the name of two Israelites
- Derivation
- from H6006 (עָמַס); burden;
- KJV renderings
- Amasa.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- עֲמָשָׂ֨א — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 16 times in the Hebrew Bible.2 Samuel 17:252 Samuel 17:252 Samuel 19:142 Samuel 20:42 Samuel 20:5
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read עֲמָשָׂא here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.