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Headword: Amalêk
Adler number: alpha,1476
Translated headword: Amalek
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A proper name.[1] And out of it [sc. comes the adjectival form] Amalekite.[2]
Greek Original:
Amalêk: onoma kurion. kai ex autou Amalêkitês.
Notes:
So too, according to Adler, in two entries of the Ambrosian Lexicon.
cf. under alpha 4702, gamma 98.
[1] Eponym of the Amalekites. Attested copiously in the Septuagint, from Genesis (14.7, 36.12 & 16) onwards.
[2] e.g. I Kingdoms (I Samuel) 15, and copiously in Josephus.
Keywords: aetiology; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 9 June 2000@08:15:43.
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Catharine Roth (added notes and keyword) on 2 July 2002@00:56:49.
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