(Hebrew Ammah', אִמָּה, a cubit, as often;. Sept. Ἀμμά v. r. Ἀμμάν ), a hill "that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon:" the sun went down as Joab and Abishai reached this place in pursuit of Abner
(2 Samuel 2:24). The description appears to indicate some eminence immediately east of Gibeon (q.v.). Josephus (Ant. 7, 1, 3) renders, "a place called Ammata" (τόπος τις, ὃν Ἀμμάταν καλοῦσι ); compare the Amta (אִמְתָּא ) of Jonathan's Targum. Both Symmachus (νάπη ) and Theodotion (ὑδραγωγός ) agree with the Vulgate in an allusion to some water-course here. It is possibly to the "excavated fountain" "under the high rock," described as near Gibeon (El-Jib) by Robinson (Researches, 2, 136). (See METHEG-AMMAH).
(See CUBIT)
in Egyptian mythology, was the name of the Gate of the Dead, or of Hades, from whence, according to the Ritual of the Dead, the souls of the deceased went out on their way to heaven.