# H6021 עֲמָשָׂא

עֲמָשָׂא (ʻĂmâsâʼ), Strong’s H6021: Amasa, the name of two Israelites KJV: Amasa.. Occurs 16 times.

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*ʻĂmâsâʼ* — Amasa, the name of two Israelites

KJV: Amasa.

Derived from [עָמַס ʻâmaç](https://besorah.bible/word/H6006) (to load, i.e. impose aburden)

Occurs 16 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עֲמָשָׂא 16 n.pr.m.
- 1 Absalom’s general
- 2 Ephraimite

## Where it occurs
- [2 Samuel 17:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/17?v=25) — Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who…
- [2 Samuel 19:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/19?v=14) — Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army…
- [2 Samuel 20:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/20?v=4) — Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.”
- [2 Samuel 20:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/20?v=5) — So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together, but he stayed longer than the set time which had been appointed to him.
- [2 Samuel 20:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/20?v=8) — When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war…
- [2 Samuel 20:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/20?v=9) — Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
- [2 Samuel 20:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/20?v=10) — But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body and shed out his…
- [2 Samuel 20:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/20?v=12) — Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he…
- [1 Kings 2:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/2?v=5) — “Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of…
- [1 Kings 2:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/2?v=32) — The LORD will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and…