AMMAH (.ivt<), 2 S 2" only.— A hill near Giah, in the wilderness of Gibeon. It was probably to the east of Gibeon above the Jordan Valley, but the name has not been recovered.
C. R. CONDER.
AMMI (•!?«= 'my people,'* LXX Xo6s m"")-— The name which is to be applicable to Israel in the time of restoration ; Lo-ammi ( = not my people), the name given in the first instance by Hosea to Gomer's third child, but in the prophetic fragment, Hos 1""" [in Heb. 2''^], referred to the people of Israel, is, according to the author of the fragment, to be replaced by the name Ammi of exactly opposite import, in sign of the changed relation of the people to J". See Lo-AilUI.
G. B. Gray.
AMMIDIOI (B'A/i/i/iioi, A, 'A^/x'Jaioi ; in Swete's text with the hard, but in Fritzsche's with the soft breathing ; AV Ammidoi).— Of the three parallel li.st8 (Ezr 2 = Neh 7 = 1 Es 5) which give the families which returned with Zerubbabel from captivity, that in 1 Es (5*) alone mentions the Ainmidioi. It has been suggested that they are the men of Humtah (Jos IS'^npsn, A Xaiifj-aTa). It may be questioned whether either the Cliadiasai or Ainmidioi were mentioned in tho original Heb. lists, for it is to be noticed that in the case of these alone is the gentilic form used ; otherwise through- out the list we have equivalent expressions of the Heb. . . . 'J3, . . . 'fmi, e.g. ulol 'l>ipo! (v."), ol iK BcToXiw. G. B. Gray.
AMMIEL {%t>]l 'kinsman is God'). — 1. Son of Gemalli, and spy of the tribe of Dan (Nu 13'^ P). 2. Father of Machir (see art.), 2 S 9"- 17". 3. According to the Chronicler, the sixth son of Obed- edom, who with his family constituted one of the courses of doorkeepers in tho time of David ; to them was allrttcd charge of the S. gate (of the temple) and the storehou.se (1 Ch 26, esp. w.»- '»). Presumably, therefore, Ammiel was the name of a division of the doorkeepers in the time of the Chronicler— c. li.C. 3(X). Cf. Driver, /.OY'BUOf. ; (iiaf. Die Gcschicht. Diich. d. A.T. 213-247, esp 242 f., 246 f. ; Gray, Stud, in Heb. Proper Aa7ncs, ch. iii. p. 4'.iir. 4. 1 Ch 3». See Eliam.
G. B. Gray.
AMMIHUD (TT5V 'kinsman is majesty'). — 1. An Kplirainiite, father of Elishania (see art.), Nu pu 01" 7". 63 lu-'^ (P). Presumably identical with A.
• For fuller diMmulon of the nicaniiig of this name, and Mm foUowing nunea beffianing with Ammi, see N^iiSB, Puopib.
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AMMON, AJVIMONITES
Bon of Ladan, 1 Ch 7". 2. A Simeonite, father of Sherauel (see art.), Nu 34«'' (P>. 3. A Naphtalite, father of Pedahel (see art. ), Nu 34=8 (P). 4. Accord- ing to the KerS of 2 S 13" and the AV, A. was the niune of tlie father of David's contemporary, the Gesliurite king Talmai. The Kcthibh, followed by KV, reads nin-ay — the closely similar letters n and "i replacing n and i. Between the two readings it is dinicult to decide ; for while the Keri is better supported, the Kethibh, as a name occurring nowhere else in OT, is the harder reading. 5. Son of Omri, father of Uthai (1 Ch 9^).
G. B. Gray. AMMIHUR (n!n'!?B).— See Ammihud, No. 4.
AMMINADAB (2-i;'!?a ' kinsman is generous,' or perhaps 'my people is generous,' B 'A/utvadi^, A 'AfuyaSdfl ; in NT Mt l^(and Lk 3"?) 'A/iii-aSaft whence the name in AV of NT is spelt Aminadab). — 1. According to the genealogy in Ruth, which gives David's ancestry, Amminadab was son of Ram and father of Nahshon (Ru 4""- = l Ch 2'», Mt 1*) ; as father of Nahshon he is also mentioned in Nu 1' 2^ 7" 10'* (P). Through his daiw:hter Elisheba he became father-in-law of Aaron, Ex 6^ (P). 2. According' to 1 Ch 6-'' A. was son of Kohath and father of Korah ; but in other state- ments about Kohath's children {e.c/. Ex 6'", Nu 3'^, 1 Ch 6-) A. is not mentioned ; moreover, elsewhere Izhar appears as son of Kohath and father of Korah (Ex 6''-^\ 1 Ch 6"). There can be little doubt, therefore, that A. has accidentally replaced Izhar in 1 Ch 6-- ; this may have arisen in compiling the list from a fuller list of the Kohathites which mentionea the connexion of A. (No. 1) with them. 3. According to the Chronicler (1 Ch 15">- ") another A. was chief of a Levitical house in the days of David ; he is described as a son of Uzziel, who was one of the sons of Kohath (1 Ch 6=).
G. B. Gray.
AlOIINADIB (3nj 'py) occurs in AV and RVm of a very obscure passage, Ca 6'= ' my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.' RV and AVm do not regard the term as a pr. name, but render ' my soul set me on (RV among) the chariots of my willing (RV princely) people.' In Kautzsch's tr. of OT the passage is omitted from the text, and is rendered in a footnote, ' Mein Verlangen [ver-] setzste mich auf die Wagen meines Volkes, eines Edlen,' with the remark that it is quite unin- telligible in its present context. The great variety of interpretation and exegesis of the words will be found exhibited in Reuss' AT, v. 391 ff. ; cf. Hitzig, d. Hoht Lied, 82 f., and comm. of Delitzsch, Ewald, Bottcher, Zockler, Oettli, etc. See Song of Songs.