"Amalek" is Hebrew for "people," "suffering," "sin," "born of the flesh.

 "Amalek" is the personification of all godliness operating throughout the world history of the sinful life of nations.   

 Amalek, as a historical figure, has become the symbol of all disobedience and opposition of sinners to the Will of God.

"Amalek" is the symbol of the totality of all the forces of false religious and political systems and their spokesmen.  

 Amalek was considered the ancestor of the Amalekites, and his name also serves to designate the entire nation.

 "The Amalekites" were a people opposed to the Will of God, who engaged in battle with the Israelites at the border of their passage into the land of Canaan.

     In the days of Hezekiah, the tribe of Simeon spiritually destroyed the Amalekites, thus finally fulfilling Balaam's prophecy.

     Haman, the last of the people, died in the struggle with the Jews.