AMAW*

Region near the Euphrates River that included the city of Pethor, to which King Balak of Moab sent messengers in search of the soothsayer Balaam (Nm 22:5). The name Amaw appears in the Idrimi Inscription (1450 BC) and on the tomb of Qen-amun, who served under Amenophis II of Egypt in the latter part of the 15th century BC.