Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H2574
חֲמָת
cha.mat · “Hamath”
Used 35 times across 13 books
Definition
§ Hamath = "fortress"
the principle city of upper Syria in the valley of the Orontes
Where it appears
Numbers2
Joshua1
Judges1
2 Samuel1
1 Kings1
2 Kings8
1 Chronicles3
2 Chronicles2
Isaiah4
Jeremiah4
Ezekiel6
Amos1
Zechariah1
In the text
Numbers 13:21So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.Numbers 34:8From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:Joshua 13:5And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal–gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.Judges 3:3Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal–hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.2 Samuel 8:9When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,1 Kings 8:65And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.2 Kings 14:25He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath–hepher.2 Kings 14:28Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?2 Kings 17:24And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.2 Kings 17:30And the men of Babylon made Succoth–benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
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