AMNON (arn'non), (Heb. am-nohn', faith ful.
1. The eldest son of David, by Ahinoam of Jezreel. He was born at Hebron, about B. C. to56. He is only known for his atrocious con duct towards his half sister Tamar, which her full brother Absalom avenged two years after, by causing him to be assassinated while a guest at his table (2 Sam. xiii), B. C. 1032.
2. Son of Shimon (t Chron. iv :2o).
AMOK (a 'mok), (Heb. Pty, aw-moke', deep, the father of (Neh. xii:7-2o).
Aliff0M172r1 (am-o'rniim), (Lat. from Gr. dkicop.oP, am'moh-man). This word is found only in Rev. xviii:13. It denoted an odoriferous plant, or seed, used in preparing precious ointment. It differed from the modern amomum of the druggists, but the exact species is not known.
AMON (arman), ( Heb. aw-mone', builder, Jer. xlvi:25).
1. The name of an Egyptian god, in whom the classical writers unanimously recognize their own Zeus and Jupiter. The primitive scat of his worship appears to have been at Meroe, from which it descended to Thebes, and thence, accord ing to Herodotus (ii :54), was transmitted to the Oasis of Siwah and to Dodona ; in all which places there were celebrated oracles of this god. His chief temple and oracle in Egypt, however, were at Thebes, a city peculiarly consecrated to him, and which is probably meant by the No and No Amon of the prophets. l le is generally represented on Egyptian monuments by the seated figure of a man with a ram's head, or by that of an entire rain, and of a blue color. In honor of him the inhabitants of the Thebaid ab stained from the flesh of sheep, and they an nually sacrificed a rain to him and dressed his image in the hide. A religious reason for that ceremony is assigned by Herodotus (ii :42) ; but Diodorus (iii :72) ascribes his wearing horns to a more trivial cause. There appears to be no account of the manner in which his oracular re sponses were given ; but as a sculpture at Karnak, which Creuzer has copied from the Description &Egypte, represents his portable tabernacle mounted on a boat and borne on the shoulders of forty priests, it may be conjectured, from the resemblance between several features of that rep resentation and the description of the oracle of Jupiter Ammon in Dindortis (xvii :5o). that his
responses were communicated by sonic indication during the solemn transportation of his taber nacle.
There is no reason to doubt that the name of this god really occurs in the passage 'Behold, I will visit Amon of No,' in Jer. xlvi :25. The context and all internal grounds are in favor of this view. The Septuagint has rendered it by Vii.4/4,:m, as it has also called No, in Ezek. xxx:14, Ag6oroXis, Dee•os'toh-!is (city of Zeus). The Peshito likewise takes it as a proper name, as Amon does not exist in Syriac in the signification which it bears as a pure Hebrew word. The Targuin of Jonathan and the Vulgate, however, have ren dered the passage 'the multitude of Alexandria.' The reason of their taking Anion to mean 'multitude' may perhaps be found in the fact that, in Ezek. xxx :13-16, we read Hanlon, which does bear that sense. Nevertheless, modern scholars are more disposed to emend the latter reading by the former, and to find Amon, the Egyptian god, in both places.
2. The son of Manasseh, and fifteenth king of Judah, who began to reign B. C. 644, and reigned two years. He restored idolatry, and again set tip the images which Manasseh had cast down. He was assassinated in a court conspiracy; but the people put the regicides to death, and raised to the throne his son Josiah, then hut eight years old (2 Kings xxi A-26; 2 Chron. xxxiii :21-25).
3. Governor of the city of Samaria, in the time of Ahab (t Kings xxii :26; 2 Chron. viii :25), B. C. 900.
4. A descendant of the servants of Solomon (called Anti in Ezra ii:57); the head of one of the families that returned from Babylon. (B. C. 536.) 5. A son of Manasses, in Christ's ancestry (Matt. i:10).