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amalek

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Am⋅a⋅lek

[am-uh-lek]
–noun
1. the son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau. Gen. 36:12; I Chron. 1:36.
2. a nomadic tribe or nation descended from Amalek and hostile to Israel. Num. 24:20.
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Amalek

dweller in a valley, the son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau (Gen. 36:12; 1 Chr. 1:36); the chief of an Idumean tribe (Gen. 36:16). His mother was a Horite, a tribe whose territory the descendants of Esau had seized.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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