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Amalek was an ancient tribe occupying parts of present day Egypt, Israel,
Jordan and Saudi Arabia. According to Amalek's biblical lineage, it was a
non-Arab tribe closely related to Edom. The Arab historians and the
commentators of the Quran have given them the name of Amaliq (the
Amalekites:??????).
According to the Book of Genesis and 1 Chronicles, Amalek (Arabic,??????,)
was the son of Eliphaz and the grandson of Esau (Gen. 36:12; 1 Chr. 1:36);
the chief of an Edomite tribe (Gen. 36:16). His mother was a Horite, a
tribe whose territory the descendants of Esau had seized.
According to the genealogy in Gen. 36:12; 1 Chr. 1:36. Amalek is a son of
Esau's son Eliphaz and of the concubine Timna, a Horite and sister of
Lotan. Gen. 36:16 refers to him as the "chief of Amalek" thus his name can
be understood to be a title derived from that of the clan or territory over
which he ruled. Indeed an extra-Biblical tradition recorded by Nac
