Amraphel
With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of
nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of
Ellasar; four kings with five....
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And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar,
Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal
king of nations;...
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In the Tanakh or Old Testament, Amraphel was a king of Shinar
(Babylonia, broadly speaking) in Genesis xiv.1 and 9, who
invaded the west along with Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and
others, and defeated Sodom and the other Cities of the Plain
in the Battle of the vale of siddim.
Beginning with E. Schrader (Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old
Test...
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am'-ra-fel, am-ra'-fel ('amraphel, or, perhaps better,
'ameraphel).
1. The Expedition Against Sodom and Gomorrah:
This name, which is identified with that of the renowned
Babylonian king Hammurabi (which see), is only found in Gen
14:1,9, where he is mentioned as the king of Shinar
(Babylonia), who fought against the cities of the plain, in
al...
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(keeper of the gods) perhaps a Hamite king of Shinar or
Babylonia, who joined the victorious incursion of the Elamite
Chedorlaomer against the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and the
cities of the plain. Gen. 14. (B.C. 1898.)...
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king of Shinar, southern Chaldea, one of the confederates of
Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, in a war against Sodom and
cities of
the plain (Gen. 14:1, 4). It is now found that
Amraphel (or
Ammirapaltu) is the Khammu-rabi whose name appears on
recently-discovered monuments. (See CHEDORLAOMER
-T0000781).
After defeating Arioch (q.v.) he united B...
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One of the four invading kings (Genesis 14:9). Shinar, his
kingdom, or Babylonia, was subordinate to the great Elanrite
king, (See CHEDORLAOMER.) The Assyrian monuments attest that
an Elamite king invaded and plundered Babylonia in 2386 B.C.;
and Babylonian remains bear traces of Elamitic influence....
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