AMON (city) ăm’ ən (נֹ֣א אָמֹ֔ון). A city thought by most scholars to be Thebes. No-Amon means “the city of Amon,” No, meaning city (i.e. the city par excellence), and Amon, being the imperial god of Egypt, whose center of worship was at the temple of Karnak in Thebes. “No-amon” appears only in RSVmg., Nahum 3:8, but אָמֹ֣ון מִנֹּ֔א, ‘āmōn minnō’, “Amon of No,” occurs in KJV, Jeremiah 46:25. נֹ֣א, nō' is almost certainly the same city. In Nahum 3:8 the word “sea” is undoubtedly used poetically for the Nile (cf. Job 41:31; Isa 18:2). Thebes was the principal city in Upper Egypt in the period of the New Kingdom (c. 1570- c. 1150 b.c.) The temple of Amon took c. 2000 years to build. Nearby are the tombs of the famous Pharaohs of the 18th dynasty, of which the tomb of Tutankhamon was discovered in 1922.