עֲמָשָׂא
a.ma.sa
Amasa
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Amasa: A Biblical Proper Name Based on the lexical data provided, Amasa (עֲמָשָׂא) is a Hebrew proper noun appearing fifteen times in the Bible. The lemma is classified as a name rather than a common word with semantic range, which indicates it functions exclusively as a personal identifier within the biblical text. The frequency of fifteen occurrences suggests that Amasa was a figure significant enough to warrant repeated mention in biblical narratives, though the provided data does not specify which particular individual this name designates or in which biblical books these references appear. As a proper noun, Amasa would have carried historical or genealogical importance to the ancient Israelite audience, serving to identify a specific person rather than to convey a general meaning or concept. Without additional lexical data regarding the etymology, the specific narratives in which Amasa appears, or any associated roles or relationships, the extent of this figure's significance cannot be determined from the information provided alone. The name's presence across multiple biblical passages indicates it belonged to someone whose story intersected with recorded Israelite history, though the precise nature of that significance remains beyond the scope of this lexical entry.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
15 total occurrences across the text
Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
2 Samuel 17:25Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
2 Samuel 19:13Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’ ”
2 Samuel 20:4Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.”
2 Samuel 20:5So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
2 Samuel 20:8When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went along it fell out.
2 Samuel 20:9Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
2 Samuel 20:9Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
2 Samuel 20:10But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel 20:12Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.
2 Samuel 20:12Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.
1 Kings 2:5“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet.
1 Kings 2:32Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
1 Chronicles 2:17Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
1 Chronicles 2:17Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.