עׇמְרִי ʻOmrîy

Meaning

Omri, an Israelite

In the King James Version: Omri.

Derivation: from H6014 (עָמַר); heaping;

Where it is used

• 1 Kings 16:16 and the people in the camp heard that Zimri had conspired against the king and struck him down. So there in the camp that very day, all Israel proclaimed Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel.
• 1 Kings 16:17 Then Omri and all the Israelites marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.
• 1 Kings 16:21 At that time the people of Israel were divided: Half of the people supported Tibni son of Ginath as king, and half supported Omri.
• 1 Kings 16:22 But the followers of Omri proved stronger than those of Tibni son of Ginath. So Tibni died and Omri became king.
• 1 Kings 16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.
• 1 Kings 16:25 But Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD and acted more wickedly than all who were before him.
• 1 Kings 16:27 As for the rest of the acts of Omri, along with his accomplishments and the might he exercised, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
• 1 Kings 16:28 And Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and his son Ahab reigned in his place.
• 1 Kings 16:29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty-two years.
• 1 Kings 16:30 However, Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.
• 2 Kings 8:26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
• 1 Chronicles 7:8 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these were Becher’s sons.
• 1 Chronicles 9:4 Uthai son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, a descendant of Perez son of Judah.
• 1 Chronicles 27:18 over Judah was Elihu, one of David’s brothers; over Issachar was Omri son of Michael;
• 2 Chronicles 22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.
• Micah 6:16 You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”