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{{Short description|Father of Isaiah}}
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'''Amoz''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|eɪ|m|ɒ|z}} ({{Hebrew Name|אָמוֹץ|stan=ʼAmōṣ |tiber=ʼĀmōṣ}}), also known as '''Amotz''',<ref>[https://biblehub.com/hebrew/531.htm Strong's Concordance 531. Amots]</ref> was the father of the [[prophet]] [[Isaiah]], mentioned in [[Book of Isaiah|Isaiah]] 1:1; 2:1 and 13:1, and in [[Books of Kings|II Kings]] 19:2, 20; 20:1. The word "amoz" means '''strong'''.

== Rabbinical tradition ==
There is a [[Talmud]]ic tradition that when the name of a prophet's father is given, the father was also a prophet, so that Amoz would have been a prophet like his son. Though it is mentioned frequently as the [[patronym]]ic title of Isaiah, the name Amoz appears nowhere else in the [[Bible]]. The rabbis of the Talmud declared, based upon a rabbinic tradition, that Amoz was the brother of [[Amaziah of Judah|Amaziah]] ({{lang|he|אמציה}}), the king of [[Kingdom of Judah|Judah]] at that time (and, as a result, that Isaiah himself was a member of the royal family). According to some traditions, Amoz is the "[[man of God]]" in [[Books of Chronicles|2 Chronicles]] 25:7–9 ([[Seder Olam Rabbah]] 20), who cautioned Amaziah to release the [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)|Israelite]] [[mercenary|mercenaries]] that he had hired.

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