Hebrew word · H2576
חַמֹּת דֹּאר
chamot
Hammoth-dor
Appears 2 times in 1 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
Hamath-Dor = "hot springs of Dor"
a Levitical city in Naphtali
Another name of cham.mat (חַמַּת "Hammath" H2575A)
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 · 2
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Joshua 21:32 חַמֹּ֥ת דֹּאר֙ Hammoth, Dor
And from the tribe of Naphtali they were given Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Hammoth-dor, and Kartan—three cities, together with their pasturelands.
Here: From the root ḥmm, 'to be hot'. It probably means 'hot springs'. The town is usually identified with Hammath (Josh 19:35), at the hot springs just south of later Tiberias.
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