Amos in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE
1. Name:
Amos is the prophet whose book stands third among the "Twelve"
in the Hebrew canon. No other person bearing the same name is
mentioned in the Old Testament, the name of the father of the
prophet Isaiah being written differently ('amots). There is an
Amos mentioned in the genealogical series Lk 3:25, but he is
otherwise unknown, and we do not know how his name would have
been written in Hebrew. Of the signification of the prophet's
name all that can be said is that a verb with the same root
letters, in the sense of to load or to carry a load, is not
uncommon in the language.
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