Amalek

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Amalek
     dweller in a valley, the son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau
     (Gen. 36:12; 1 Chr. 1:36); the chief of an Idumean tribe (Gen.
     36:16). His mother was a Horite, a tribe whose territory the
     descendants of Esau had seized.
     



From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Amalek, a people that licks up