Dict: easton - Amalek

easton:

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

Amalekite @ a tribe that dwelt in Arabia Petraea, between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. They were not the descendants of Amalek, the son of Eliphaz, for they existed in the days of Abraham kjv@Genesis:14:7). They were probably a tribe that migrated from the shores of the Persian Gulf and settled in Arabia. "They dwelt in the land of the south...from Havilah until thou comest to Shur" kjv@Numbers:13:29; kjv@1Samuel:15:7). They were a pastoral, and hence a nomadic race. Their kings bore the hereditary name of Agag kjv@Numbers:24:7; kjv@1Samuel:15:8). They attempted to stop the Israelites when they marched through their territory kjv@Deuteronomy:25:18), attacking them at Rephidim kjv@Exodus:17:8-13; comp. kjv@Deuteronomy:25:17; kjv@1Samuel:15:2). They afterwards attacked the Israelites at Hormah kjv@Numbers:14:45). We read of them subsequently as in league with the Moabites kjv@Judges:3:13) and the Midianites kjv@Judges:6:3). Saul finally desolated their territory and destroyed their power ( kjv@1Samuel:14:48 kjv@1Samuel:15:3), and David recovered booty from them ( kjv@1Samuel:30:18-20). In the Babylonian inscriptions they are called Sute, in those of Egypt Sittiu, and the Amarna tablets include them under the general name of Khabbati, or "plunderers."