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Ἀμμανῖται (Ammanitai)

Ἀμμανῖται means “Ammanitai — the Ammonites, a people east of the Jordan”.

Ancient Greek word, found 63 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 1.206: καὶ κτίζει δʼ αὐτῶν ὁ μὲν Μωαβίτας μέγιστον ὄντας καὶ νῦν ἔθνος, Ἀμμανίτας δὲ ὁ ἕτερος· Συρίας τῆς κοίλης ἐστὶν ἀμφότερα. καὶ Λώτῳ μὲν τοιαύτην συνέβη τὴν ἐκ Σοδομιτῶν ἀναχώρησιν γενέσθαι.

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.