עֲמָשָׂא

a.ma.sa

Amasa

Strong’s H6021Proper name, a person16 times in the Hebrew Bible

amasa16

In the text

2 Samuel 17:25עֲמָשָׂא
Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.
1 Kings 2:5וְלַעֲמָשָׂא
Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with the blood of war the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.
1 Chronicles 2:17עֲמָשָׂא
Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
2 Chronicles 28:12וַעֲמָשָׂא
Then some of the leaders of the Ephraimites—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—stood in opposition to those arriving from the war.

עֲמָשָׂא 16 n.pr.m.

1. Absalom’s general

2. Ephraimite

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.