(anc. geogr.) the country of the Amorites, situated, according to Josephus, between three rivers, like an island: the Arnon on the south, the Jabbok on the north, and the Jordan on the west. The Amorites, or Amorrites, took their name from Amor, or Emor, the son of Canaan. They dwelt in the mountains of Judah to the south, and in some parts mixed with the Hethari; also about Sichem: but a great part of them crossed the Jordan, and in a hostile manner occupied a considerable part of the country of the Moabites and Ammonites; which afterwards fell to the Israelites, on the defeat of Sihon their king.