Amos Definition

āməs
noun
A masculine name.
Webster's New World
A Hebrew prophet of the 8th cent. b.c.
Webster's New World
The book containing his prophecies.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Book of Amos
pronoun
A male given name.
Wiktionary

A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

Wiktionary

A prophet, author of the book of Amos.

Wiktionary

A town in Quebec.

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Origin of Amos

  • Possibly from Hebrew עמוס (amos, “to carry; a burden”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Hebrew ‘āmôs ʕms in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Amos Sentence Examples

  • Nowhere in the Old Testament does the doctrine taught by Amos of Yahweh's universal power and sovereignty 1 Viz.

  • It is the necessary corollary to the teaching of Amos, that God is the righteous lord of all the world.

  • The Deutero-Isaiah closes a great prophetic succession, which begins with Amos, continues in Isaiah in even greater splendour with the added elements of hope and Messianic expectation, and receives further accession in Jeremiah with his special teaching on inward spiritual and personal religion which constituted the new covenant of divine grace.

  • It is, of course, true that the ethical conception of sin as violation of righteousness and an act of rebellion against the divine righteous will had been developed since the days of Amos and Isaiah; but, as we have already observed, cultus and prophetic teaching were separated by an immense gulf, and in spite of the reformation of 621 B.C. still remain separated.

  • I dated Amos Croft when I was a girl.

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