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Strong's #2574 - חֲמָת
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- Hamath = "fortress"
- n pr loc
- the principle city of upper Syria in the valley of the Orontes
- n pr m
- father of the house of Rechab
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חֲמָת (“defence,” “citadel,” from the root חָמָה, kindred to חוֹמָה a wall), pr.n. Hamath, a distinguished city of Syria, situated on the Orontes, on the northern frontier of the Holy Land (Numbers 13:21, 34:8 ), formerly the capital of a great king, a friend of David;-it was called by the Greeks Epiphania, by the Arabs by the ancient name حَمَاةُ: called more fully Amos 6:2, חֲמַת רַבָּה “Hamath the great,” and חֲמַת צוֹבָה 2 Chronicles 8:3. The Gentile noun is חֲמָתִי Genesis 10:18. אֶרֶץ חֲמָת 2 Kings 25:21, “the territory of Hamath.” See Abulfeda (who was prince of this yet distinguished city), Tab. Syriæ, page 108, 109; Relandi Palæstina, page 119, seq.; Burckhardt’s Travels, i. page 249, 514, Germ. trans.
[“חַמַּת (“warm baths”), pr.n. of a town in the tribe of Naphtali, Joshua 19:35, near Tiberias. Josephus calls it Ἀμμαοῦς, which he interprets by θαρμά, B. J. 1, 3. The same prob. is