Enciclopedia Cattolica

AMMON

Volume I · p. 667 · 1948

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

AMMON. – Son of Lot, born of the incest committed by his younger daughter while he, drunk, was sleeping. The Hebrew name 'Ammôn (from ben-'ammî, “son of my kinsman”) recalls this origin (Gen. 19:30–38). He Ammonites (v.). Gaetano M. Pereda

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“AMMON.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), p. 667. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/ammon.