Extinct Northwest Semitic language, spoken by the Amorite tribes.
1Only the Amorite books and the idols of precious stones remained unscathed.
2But Amorite kingdoms were established elsewhere on both sides of the Jordan.
3The Amorite kingdoms of Sihon and Og fell before their assault.
4According to the Biblical narrative Hebron was at once Amorite, Hittite, and Canaanite.
5Amorite and Hittite, Canaanite and Philistine, were all alike emigrants from other lands.
6Thoo ha' made a covenant wi' the Amorite an the Amalekite.
7By certain of the Biblical writers the terms Canaanite and Amorite are used interchangeably.
8At midnight he and his three hundred trusty attendants advanced upon the Amorite camp.
9He further gives Kudur-Mabug the title of "father of the Amorite land."
10We are in the Amorite kingdom, east of the Jordan, which has already been conquered.
11They conquer the territory of the Amorite kings, Sihon of Heshbon and Og of Bashan.
12The overthrow of the Amorite chiefs had favoured the expansion of the Aramæans towards the south.
13Amorite culture was modelled on that of Babylonia.
14When Abram was "confederate" with the three Amorite chieftains it was known as Mamre (Gen. xiii.
15While nominally an officer of the Pharaoh, he was really seeking to found an Amorite kingdom in the north.
16But it is possible that the terms at an early date were interchangeable, Canaan being geographical and Amorite ethnical.