The height and strength mentioned in Amos 2:9 has led some Christian scholars, including Orville J. Nave, who wrote the classic Nave's Topical Bible to refer to the Amorites as "giants.
Oni so opisani kot vplivni ljudje visoke postave, "kot so visoke cedre", (Amos 2:9), ki so zasedli ozemlje vzhodno in zahodno od reke Jordan.