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amalek
/ˈæm.əˌlɛk/
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What does amalek mean?
noun
- The nation said to be descended from him, living mostly in the Negev and some later migrating to Israel.
proper noun
- The biblical grandson of Esau.
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/ˈæm.əˌlɛk/
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But here a difficulty arose--the biblical statement that God commanded Moses to "write in a book" his decree concerning Amalek before he went up into Sinai.
"Remember what Amalek did unto thee, by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt."
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She listened to every word about the victory of Moses over Amalek, of Gideon over Midian, and of David over Goliath, and about the destruction of “Thy Jerusalem,” and she prayed to God with the tenderness and emotion with which her heart was overflowing, but without fully understanding what she was asking of God in that prayer.