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3 definitions found From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Amon n : a primeval personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at Thebes [syn: {Amen}, {Amon}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Amon builder. (1.) The governor of Samaria in the time of Ahab. The prophet Micaiah was committed to his custody (1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chr. 18:25). (2.) The son of Manasseh, and fourteenth king of Judah. He restored idolatry, and set up the images which his father had cast down Zephaniah (1:4; 3:4, 11) refers to the moral depravity prevailing in this king's reign. He was assassinated (2 Kings 21:18-26: 2 Chr. 33:20-25) by his own servants, who conspired against him (3.) An Egyptian god, usually depicted with a human body and the head of a ram, referred to in Jer. 46:25, where the word multitudes" in the Authorized Version is more appropriately rendered Amon" in the Revised Version. In Nah. 3:8 the expression "populous No" of the Authorized version is rendered in the Revised Version "No-amon." Amon is identified with Ra the sun-god of Heliopolis (4.) Neh. 7:59. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Amon, faithful; true
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