Lexical Definition

‎אָמוֹן‎ ʼÂmôwn (aw-mone') Amon ^N:N-M-T
of Egyptian derivation; used only as an adjunct of ‎נֹא‎

multitude, populous.

• § Amon or Amun = "to nourish: to be faithful"
• Amon (i.e. Ammon or Amn), a deity of Egypt

1) an Egyptian god, originally the local god of Thebes, later head of the Egyptian pantheon

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎אָמוֺן‎ proper name Amon, an Egyptian god Nah 3:8; Jer 46:25, compare by Greeks with Zeus (Herod.^{ii. 42}; Diod^i.13), Ἀμμῶν. He was originally the local deity of Thebes (= ‎נאֹ‎, called ‎נאֹ אָמוֺן‎ Nah 3:8, compare ‎מִנּאֹ‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ Jer 46:25 **Spiegelb^{Randglossen, 43 ff.} reads ‎נֹא אָמוֺן‎ (as Nah 3:8) for ‎אָמוֺן נֹא‎, and finds in both a Thebes in the Delta.), but subsequently became the supreme god of the Egyptian Pantheon, the successor of the sun-god Ra and so-called Amon Ra. He was the secret god, who hid himself and was difficult to find (Amon = concealment, hidden); see Rawl.^{Hist, Anc. Egypt, i. 322} Ebers Ri^HWB. (II. III. ‎אָמוֺן‎.)

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