AMNON

Amnon: translation

   Faithful.

   1) One of the sons of Shammai, of the children of Ezra (1 Chr. 4:20; comp. 17).

   2) The eldest son of David, by Ahinoam of Jezreel (1 Chr. 3:1; 2 Sam. 3:2). Absalom caused him to be put to death for his great crime in the matter of Tamar (2 Sam. 13:28, 29).

Amnon: translation

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Mainly Jewish: name (meaning ‘faithful’ in Hebrew) borne in the Bible by King David's eldest son, who raped and abandoned his half-sister Tamar and was killed by her brother Absalom.

Amnon: translation

(fl. 11th-10th cent BCE)

   Israelite, eldest son of David. He raped his half-sister Tamar. Her brother Absalom had him killed for this offence (II Samuel 13).