Hebrew word · H2577

חֲמָתִי

hachamati

Hamathite

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

What it means

Someone descended from Hamath(?) of the Canaanites, first mentioned at Gen.10.18; descended from Canaan (H3667); along with Sidon (H6721), Heth (H2845), Jebusite (H2983), Amorite (H0567), Girgashite (H1622), Hivite (H2340), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H0721) and Zemarite (H6786)

§ Hamathite , of Hamath

one of the families descended from Canaan

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

Where it appears

Genesis · 1

  1. Genesis 10:18 הַֽחֲמָתִ֑י the Hamathite[s]

    the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 1:16 הַֽחֲמָתִֽי׃ ס the Hamathite[s]

    the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

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