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חַמַּת

Chammath · H2575 · Hebrew · proper noun · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Hammath

    Fortified town; territory of Naphtali

    Examples

    Joshua 19:35 The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,

  2. Hammath

    The ancestor of the Kenites

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 2:55 The families of scribes who lived at Jabez were the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. Those are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Names of Locations003001010
This is the proper name Hammath, a fortified city allotted to the tribe of Naphtali.
Names of People003001007
This code is inherited from the shared spelling's use as a place name in Naphtali's territory rather than from an independent personal-name sense attested for this entry.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2575. Chammath I. חַמַּת proper name, of a location (hot spring) — town in Naphtali Jos…
H2575. Chammath
I. חַמַּת proper name, of a location (hot spring) — town in Naphtali Jos 19:35 (perhaps = חַמּוֺן
2 see Di); ᵐ5 Ωμαθαδακεθ (= רַקַּת חַמַּת), A Αμαθ, ᵐ5L Αμμαθ; JosAnt. xviii, 2. 3 Αμμαθους (ed. Niese), compare Id.BJ. iv, 10.3GutheZPV 1891, xiii, 284; probably = Talmud „amata NbrGéogr. du Talm. 207 (with hot springs), 35 minutes south of Tiberias, see RobBR ii, 385 BuhlZPV xiii, 1890, 39 f. Guthel. with GASmGeogr, 450 (FurrerZPV ii, 1878, 55; xiii, 1890, 194 ff. and others say north of Tiberias); see חַמּוֺן דּאֹר, חַמֹּת below & above
II. חַמַּת proper name, masculine father of the house of Rechab 1Ch 2:55.
חַמַּת proper name, of a location see below חמם.
חַנָּה חֵנָדָד, חֵן, see below חנן.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Names of People1 occurrenceNames of Locations1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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