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The Omri Family

Write the Great Book

עמרי

Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Omri lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.

Sixth king of Israel, founder of the Omride dynasty and of the capital Samaria. His reign brought Israel into the concert of the great Near Eastern powers; mentioned in the Mesha stele.

Geographic origin: Samarie

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Omri lineage has not yet been written.

Claude Opus 4.8 will compose an original work from archival items in the corpus that mention this lineage, in-depth web research, and family contributions already submitted. The work will comprise approximately 30 to 40 pages — introduction, 5 to 7 chapters, conclusion — and will be automatically enriched with each new contribution.

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Collection

Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.

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Web research

Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).

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Writing

Outline, chapters, bibliography — every page is sourced. Live streaming.

Get a single link: it signs you in if you already have an account, or creates one — no password. This finalises your proposal and lets you follow its review.

Lineage Map

JérusalemJérusalemPlace of Origin — SamarieSamarie
Place of Origin Diaspora Memory (transmitted)Regions reconstructed from documented origins and diaspora.

This book tells the story of the Omri. Your own family may also have its Great Book — search your name to discover it, or to bring it to life.

To explore more deeply the memory, family archives, and testimonies of the lineage Omri, remember and share its dedicated address:

zakhor.ai/omri

The address zakhor.ai/omri leads directly to this page. The archives, genealogy, and accounts that the community deposits there will complement the historical portrait presented here.

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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/omri">Omri — Zakhor</a>

Citation

Omri — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/omri

Variants of the name (5)

One name, a hundred faces.

The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.

Latin4

OmryAmriOmariORI

עברית · Hebrew1

עמרי

Does your family write this name differently?

Notable figures

  • 1.

    Omri

    Fondateur de Samarie

In memory

The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Omri.

Search “Omri” on Yad Vashem

The search is performed directly in the Yad Vashem archives; Zakhor neither copies nor retains any personal data. The presence or absence of a name in the database is not exhaustive. Learn more

Diaspora regions

Israël

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Omri give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Bibliography

  • « Omri », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007)
  • Bright, Hist, 219ff
  • J. Gray, A History of Israel (1960)
  • Morgenstern, in: huca, 15 (1940), 134–66 (1940)
  • Whitley, in: vt, 2 (1952), 137–52 (1952)
  • A. Parrot, Samaria, the Capital of the Kingdom of Israel (1958)
  • H.L. Ginsberg, Fourth World Congress of Jewish Studies (1967)

Tags

#biblique#roi-d-israel#omride

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