EASTON’S BIBLE DICTIONARY (1897 EDITION)
Amalek – dweller in a valley, the son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau (Gen. 36:12; 1 Chr. 1:36); the chief of an Idumean tribe (Gen. 36:16).
His mother was a Horite, a tribe whose territory the descendants of Esau had seized.
