Hebrew word · H2575

חַמַּת

vechamat

Hammath

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

§ Hammath = "hot spring"

one of the fortified cities in the territory allotted to Naphtali

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Joshua · 1

  1. Joshua 19:35 וְחַמַּ֖ת and Hammath

    The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 2:55 מֵחַמַּ֖ת from Hammath

    and the clans of the scribes who lived at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

    Here: 'From Hammath.' Here it is the name of an ancestor, not the town of Hammath in Naphtali. The name looks like ḥammah, 'heat, hot spring', which is why the Latin Vulgate translated it 'from heat'.

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