Amalek
[am-uh-lek]
- the son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau. Gen. 36:12; I Chron. 1:36.
- a nomadic tribe or nation descended from Amalek and hostile to Israel. Num. 24:20.
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Contemporary Examples
We should know that the term Amalek is bad not just because of whom it targets, but because of the violence it justifies.
For those who don't know, 'Amalek' is the term used to describe those who need to be wiped from the face of the Earth.
Amalek, the Bible tells us, is an evil nation that is to be wiped out completely.
He then went on to compare us to Amalek, the Biblical nation that God commands the Jews to annihilate.
Like Amalek, the Biblical evil-doer whose name we are enjoined to “blot out.”
Historical Examples
Shall we suffer the Prelatist altar to be preserved by these sons of Amalek?
Micah ClarkeArthur Conan Doyle
Much as Amalek may injure me, I must acquit him of treason and of baseness.'
TancredBenjamin Disraeli
She was the daughter of Amalek, the daughter of a thousand chiefs.
TancredBenjamin Disraeli
The war with Amalek succeeded the first; the embassy to Edom followed the second.
Sermons of Christmas EvansJoseph Cross
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Notes on the book of ExodusC. H. (Charles Henry) Mackintosh