Amon

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Amon
       n : a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath;
           worshipped especially at Thebes [syn: {Amen}]

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