单词 | amalekite |
释义 | Amalekiten.adj. A. n. A member of a nomadic people inhabiting the area south of Canaan in Biblical times. Also figurative: a fierce or determined adversary. Cf. Amalek n.The Amalekites are described as living during the period covered by the books of Exodus and 1 and 2 Samuel; they were noted for being fierce fighters and for their conflicts with the Israelites, and in rabbinic tradition were regarded as the archetypal enemies of the Jews. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of the Middle East and Asia Minor > [noun] AmalekOE Amalekitea1382 Massagetaea1398 Jebusite1535 Massagetes1561 Hyksos1602 Philistia1857 Hatti1874 Mitanni1909 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xxx. 1 Amalechites maadyn a bure fro þe south parti in to Sichelech. 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Genesis xiv. 17 All the contre of the Amalechites, and also the amorytes that dwell in Haȝeȝon Thamar. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §2. 185 The Amalekites had forsaken the God..whom Israel still professed. 1762 T. Patten King David Vindicated 117 David..rewarded with death the presumptuous Amalekite who brought the king's crown. 1871 T. H. Huxley in L. Huxley Life & Lett. J. D. Hooker (1919) II. 165 Ayrton has made such a brute of himself..that the fact of your rebelling against him will be a strong prima facie argument in your favour... Only let not thy soul be vexed by that Amalekite to the verge of losing sleep. 1919 N. Hill Story Sc. Church ix. 193 They seem to have imagined that they were the Chosen People and that their enemies were the Amalekites. 2008 Church Times 29 Aug. 19/3 How does God's goodness sit with his call for the destruction of the Moabites and the Amalekites? B. adj. Of or relating to the Amalekites. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of the Middle East and Asia Minor > [adjective] MidianitishOE MoabitishOE Ammonitea1325 Moabitea1325 Amalekitea1382 Midianitea1382 Amorite1530 Scythian1567 Philistian1569 Sabaeana1586 Scythian-likea1599 Nabatean1614 Philistean1623 Scythic1623 Chaldean1732 Alarodian1737 Philistinian1773 Judahite1797 Philistine1842 Moabitic1851 Himyaritic1854 Akkadian1856 Scythized1861 Cimmerian1862 Idumaean1863 Himyaric1864 Hittite1871 Kassite1894 Hattian1908 Khaldian1908 Kenite1911 Hattic1913 Ephthalite1920 Subarian1923 Hurrian1928 Gutian1929 Saka1958 Luvian1963 Urartian1965 Eblaite1976 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xxx. 13 An egipcian child I am, & þe seruaunt of an Amalachit man [L. servus viri Amalechitae]. a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) 2 Kings i. 13 I am the sone of an Amalechit man comlynge. 1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. i. 22 We should haue slaine euery Amalekite beast. 1702 D. Defoe Shortest-way with Dissenters 20 Your sparing this Amalekite Race is our Destruction. 1820 N.-Amer. Rev. & Misc. Jrnl. 10 428 David said to the Amalekite youth, ‘thy blood be upon thy head.’ 1958 Israel Explor. Jrnl. 8 28 The Egyptian who tells David of the Amalekite incursions says, ‘We made an invasion upon the south.’ 2006 P. Galpaz-Feller Samson xiii. 228 The second description is presented from the point of view of the Amalekite lad who reports on Saul's death. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.a1382 |
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