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- proper noun biblical The name given to the grandson of
Esau through his eldest son, in theHebrew Bible . - proper noun The
nation that purportedly traced theirancestry to Amalec.
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Examples
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Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation.
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Remember what Amalec did to thee in the way when thou camest out of Egypt:
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But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people, lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were innumerable, as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.
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And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul was offering a holocaust to the Lord, out of the choicest of the spoils, which he had brought from Amalec.
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Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath: spare him not, nor covet anything that is his: but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
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And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up:
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Saul is sent to destroy Amalec: he spareth their king and the best of their cattle: for which disobedience he is cast off by the Lord.
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Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.
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And he joined to him the children of Ammon, and Amalec: and he went and overthrew Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
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And Saul said to Samuel: Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag, the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have slain.
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