The name "Amalek" can refer to the nation's founder, a grandson of Esau; his descendants, the Amalekites; or the territories of Amalek, which they inhabited. According to the Torah, there is a commandment to exterminate the memory of Amalek.
The Amalekites, descendants of Amalek, were an ancient biblical nation living near the land of Canaan. They were the first nation to attack the Jewish people after the Exodus from Egypt, and they are seen as the archetypal enemy of the Jews.
Amalek in the Bible is a figure and the name of a group of people described as descendants of Esau, Jacob's brother. The Amalekites, the people of Amalek, are often depicted as Israel's persistent enemies throughout the biblical narrative.
The Amalekites were a formidable tribe of nomads living in the area south of Canaan between Mount Seir and the Egyptian border. They resisted the Israelites during the time of the exodus, and they remained perennial foes of God’s people.
The Amalekites were a people of the Negev and adjoining desert that were a hereditary enemy of Israel from wilderness times to the early monarchy. Amalek, a son of Esau's son Eliphaz, was presumably the eponymous ancestor of the Amalekites.
Throughout the historical narrative, the Amalekites represent the archetype of those who oppose God’s redemptive plan. Their disputes with Israel are juxtaposed against Israel’s covenant identity.
Name of a nomadic nation south of Palestine. That the Amalekites were not Arabs, but of a stock related to the Edomites (consequently also to the Hebrews), can be concluded from the genealogy in Gen. xxxvi. 12 and in I Chron. i. 36.