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Amalekite: tags: [christianity] [judaism]

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Definition:

a warlike race of the Sinaitic peninsula, which gave much trouble to the Israelites in the wilderness; were as good as annihilated by King David.

^{Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (1907)}
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occurs in the Old Testament of the Bible and refers to a grandson of Esau, the descendant nation of Amalekites, and the territories of Amalek which they inhabited.
The Old Testament describes the Amalekites as a tribe which lived in ancient Israel and in the land called Moab, in what the Romans called Arabia Petraea (Moab and the desert of Sinai), a region depopulated in the fourteenth century BC and then occupied by Edomites.

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"Patience, noble Excellency," rejoined the son of Moses, "they are ahead of us. I can see the imprint of the cart wheels, driven by that traitor, that son of the Amalekite."

Emma Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)

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There was a ring of fighting spirit in Samuel's voice as he said this, and an old Testament flavour in his speech, as another Samuel had once prayed for victory over the Amalekites.

Cecil Scott Forester. The African Queen, p.2 (1935)