Amalek
Today: Amalek
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Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Dweller in a valley, the son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau (; 1 Chr. 1:36); the chief of an Idumean tribe (). His mother was a Horite, a tribe whose territory the descendants of Esau had seized.
Smith’s Bible Dictionary
(dweller in a valley), a son of Eliphaz by his concubine Timnah grandson of Esau, and chieftain (“duke,” Authorized Version) of Edom. (,16; ) (B.C. about 1700.)
Where it is named
Exodus 17:8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16 Numbers 13:29 Numbers 24:20, 24 Deuteronomy 25:17, 19 Judges 3:13 Judges 5:14 Judges 6:3, 33 Judges 7:12 Judges 10:12 1 Samuel 15:2, 3, 5, 8, 20, 32 1 Samuel 28:18 2 Samuel 8:12 1 Chronicles 18:11 Psalms 83:7
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