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الإنجليزية - التركية
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A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh
A male given name
A prophet, author of the book of Amos
A shepherd and "dresser of sycamore [fig] trees" from the Judean village of Tekoa who denounced the religious and social practices of the northern kingdom (Israel) during the reign of Jeroboam II (c 786-746 b c e ), Amos was the first biblical prophet whose words were collected and preserved in a book
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flourished 8th century BC Earliest Hebrew prophet (one of the 12 Minor Prophets) to have a biblical book named for him. Born in Tekoa in Judah, he was a shepherd. According to the book of Amos, he traveled to the richer and more powerful northern kingdom of Israel to preach his visions of divine destruction and the message that God's absolute sovereignty required justice for rich and poor alike and that God's chosen people were not exempt from the moral order. He foretold the destruction of the northern kingdom and Judah and anticipated the predictions of doom by later biblical prophets. Alcott Amos Bronson Comenius John Amos Jan Amos Komensky Oz Amos Amos Klausner Stagg Amos Alonzo Tutuola Amos Whitney Amos
Jewish prophet
borne; a burden, one of the twelve minor prophets He was a native of Tekota, the modern Tekua, a town about 12 miles south-east of Bethlehem He was a man of humble birth, neither a "prophet nor a prophet's son," but "an herdman and a dresser of sycomore trees," R V He prophesied in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea (Amos 1: 1; 7: 14, 15; Zech 14: 5), who survived him a few years Under Jeroboam II the kingdom of Israel rose to the zenith of its prosperity; but that was followed by the prevalence of luxury and vice and idolatry At this period Amos was called from his obscurity to remind the people of the law of God's retributive justice, and to call them to repentance
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given name, male
{i} minor Biblical prophet of the 8th century BC; book of the Old Testament named for the prophet Amos; male first name
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a Hebrew shepherd and minor prophet
One of the Twelve Prophets; eighth century prophet from Tekoa in Judah, preached to the Northern Kingdom emphasizing social justice and the coming Day of Yahweh See Chapter 13
an Old Testament book telling Amos's prophecies
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an Old Testament book telling Amos's prophecies a Hebrew shepherd and minor prophet
Amos Alonzo Stagg
born Aug. 16, 1862, West Orange, N.J., U.S. died March 17, 1965, Stockton, Calif. U.S. college gridiron football coach. Stagg played end for Yale University and was chosen for the first All-America team in 1889. During his 41-year tenure at the University of Chicago (1892-1932), he devised the end-around play, the man in motion, the huddle (also credited to another), the shift play, and the tackling dummy. He later coached at three other colleges, not retiring until 1960. His 71 years of coaching represent the longest coaching career in the history of the sport. He died at age 102
Amos Bronson Alcott
{i} (1799-1888) United States teacher and writer who was an advocate of transcendentalism and declared that learning should be based on pleasure and imagination and not on discipline
Amos Bronson Alcott
born Nov. 29, 1799, Wolcott, Conn., U.S. died March 4, 1888, Concord, Mass. U.S. teacher and philosopher. The self-educated son of a poor farmer, Alcott worked as a peddler before establishing a series of innovative but ultimately unsuccessful schools for children. He traveled to Britain with money borrowed from Ralph Waldo Emerson and came back with the mystic Charles Lane, with whom he founded the short-lived utopian community Fruitlands outside Boston. Alcott is credited with establishing the first parent-teacher association in Concord, Mass., while he was superintendent of schools there. A prominent member of the Transcendentalists, he wrote a number of books but did not become financially secure until his daughter Louisa May Alcott achieved success
Amos Keinan
(born 1927) Israeli satirist and playwright
Amos Mansdorf
{i} (born 1965) former Israeli tennis player
Amos Mansdorff
{i} Amos Mansdorf (born 1965), former Israeli tennis player
Amos Oz
Israeli author and journalist
Amos Oz
orig. Amos Klausner born May 4, 1939, Jerusalem, Israel Israeli novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. A second-generation Israeli, Oz lived primarily on a kibbutz from the 1950s to the 1980s. He served in the Israeli Army (1957-60, 1967, and 1973) but later became a leading advocate of peace. His symbolic works including Where the Jackals Howl, and Other Stories (1965); My Michael (1968), perhaps his best-known novel; and Black Box (1987) reflect the conflicts in Israeli life
Amos Tutuola
born 1920, Abeokuta, Nigeria died June 8, 1997, Ibadan Nigerian writer. He had only six years of formal schooling and wrote in English and outside the mainstream of Nigerian literature. His stories incorporated Yoruba myths and legends into loosely constructed prose epics that improvised on traditional themes. His best-known work is The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952), a classic quest tale that was the first Nigerian book to achieve international fame. His later works include the tale The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town (1981), Yoruba Folktales (1986), and Village Witch Doctor (1990)
Amos Whitney
born Oct. 8, 1832, Biddeford, Maine, U.S. died Aug. 5, 1928, Portland, Maine U.S. manufacturer. He was apprenticed at age
Amos Whitney
In 1860, with Francis Pratt, he founded the firm of Pratt & Whitney, originally to manufacture thread spoolers. It later diversified into the manufacture of innovative designs of guns, cannons, sewing machines, and typesetting machines; instruments for measurement developed there proved of great value to science and industry. Today a separate company, formed from the toolworks in 1925, produces aircraft engines and space-propulsion systems as part of the United Technologies Corporation
Amos and Andy
two black characters in old US radio and television programmes, who were played by white actors. People now see these programmes as an example of a white racist view of black people
Jan Amos Komensky
{i} Comenius, John Amos Comenius (1592-1670), Moravian religious leader and teacher
John Amos Comenius
{i} Comenius, Jan Amos Komensky (1592-1670), Moravian religious leader and teacher
John Amos Comenius
Czech Jan Amos Komensky born March 28, 1592, Nivnice, Moravia died Nov. 15, 1670, Amsterdam, Neth. Czech educational reformer and religious leader. He favoured the learning of Latin to facilitate the study of European culture but emphasized learning about things rather than about grammar per se. His Janua Linguarum Reserata (1631), a textbook that described useful facts about the world in both Latin and Czech, revolutionized Latin teaching and was translated into 16 languages. He also produced one of the first illustrated schoolbooks, Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1658)
Maale Amos
Israeli settlement located northeast of Hebron
amos

    الواصلة

    A·mos

    التركية النطق

    eymıs

    النطق

    /ˈāməs/ /ˈeɪməs/

    علم أصول الكلمات

    [ 'A-m&s ] (noun.) Possibly from Hebrew amos "to carry".
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