Amittai (Hastings' Dictionary)

Father of the prophet Jonah, 2 K 14», Jon 1'. RMIT^, friendly relations between two nations, 1 Mac 12" (RV ' friendship '). See ALLIANCE. AMMAH (.ivt<), 2 S 2" only.— A hill near Giah, in the wilderness of Gibeon. It was probably to the east of Gibeon above the Jordan Valley, but the name has not been recovered. C. R. CONDER. AMMI (•!?

«= 'my people,'* LXX Xo6s m"")-— The name which is to be applicable to Israel in the time of restoration ; Lo-ammi ( = not my people), the name given in the first instance by Hosea to Gomer's third child, but in the prophetic fragment, Hos 1""" [in Heb. 2''^], referred to the people of Israel, is, according to the author of the fragment, to be replaced by the name Ammi of exactly opposite import, in sign of the changed relation of the people to J". See Lo-AilUI. G. B. Gray.

AMMIDIOI (B'A/i/i/iioi, A, 'A^/x'Jaioi ; in Swete's text with the hard, but in Fritzsche's with the soft breathing ; AV Ammidoi).— Of the three parallel li.st8 (Ezr 2 = Neh 7 = 1 Es 5) which give the families which returned with Zerubbabel from captivity, that in 1 Es (5*) alone mentions the Ainmidioi. It has been suggested that they are the men of Humtah (Jos IS'^npsn, A Xaiifj-aTa). It may be questioned whether either the Cliadiasai or Ainmidioi were mentioned in tho original Heb.

lists, for it is to be noticed that in the case of these alone is the gentilic form used ; otherwise through- out the list we have equivalent expressions of the Heb. . 'J3, . . 'fmi, e.g. ulol 'l>ipo! (v."), ol iK BcToXiw. G. B. Gray. AMMIEL {%t>]l 'kinsman is God'). — 1. Son of Gemalli, and spy of the tribe of Dan (Nu 13'^ P). 2. Father of Machir (see art.), 2 S 9"- 17". 3.

According to the Chronicler, the sixth son of Obed- edom, who with his family constituted one of the courses of doorkeepers in tho time of David ; to them was allrttcd charge of the S. gate (of the temple) and the storehou.se (1 Ch 26, esp. w.»- '»). Presumably, therefore, Ammiel was the name of a division of the doorkeepers in the time of the Chronicler— c. li.C. 3(X). Cf. Driver, /.OY'BUOf. ; (iiaf. Die Gcschicht. Diich. d. A.T. 213-247, esp 242 f., 246 f. ; Gray, Stud, in Heb.

Proper Aa7ncs, ch. iii. p. 4'.iir. 4. 1 Ch 3». See Eliam. G. B. Gray.