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Lexicon :: Strong's H2574 - ḥămāṯ

Aa
חֲמָת
Transliteration
ḥămāṯ
Pronunciation
kham-awth'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as חוֹמָה (H2346)
Strong’s Definitions

חֲמָת Chămâth, kham-awth'; from the same as H2346; walled; Chamath, a place in Syria:—Hamath, Hemath.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H2574 in the following manner: Hamath (34x), Hamath (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H2574 in the following manner: Hamath (34x), Hamath (3x).
proper locative noun

  1. Hamath = "fortress"

    1. the principle city of upper Syria in the valley of the Orontes

      proper masculine noun

    2. father of the house of Rechab

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֲמָת Chămâth, kham-awth'; from the same as H2346; walled; Chamath, a place in Syria:—Hamath, Hemath.
STRONGS H2574: Abbreviations
† חֲמָת, חֲמַת proper name, of a location (√ dubious; Thes MV and others derive from חָמָה, חֲמָת = fortress, or (see RSSemitic i, 140), sacred enclosure, temenos, ḥimā, compare HalJAS 7 ème Sér. x, 392, LagBN 82, 156; but no certainty that name is Shemitic; Arabic bdb033301, Assyrian Amattu, DlPA 275 ff. Prov 174); — modern Ḥamâ, on el-‘Âṣi (Orontes), 38 hours (approximately 115 miles) north of Damascus, see BdPal 398 f. It had a king, תֹּעִי, in David's time 2 Samuel 8:9 = 1 Chronicles 18:9, and in 8th cent. B.C. 2 Kings 19:13 = Isaiah 37:13; gods of its own 2 Kings 17:30; 2 Kings 18:34 = Isaiah 36:19; gave its name to land (limits unknown) רִבְלָה בְּאֶרֶץ ח׳ 2 Kings 23:33; 2 Kings 25:21; Jeremiah 39:5; Jeremiah 52:9, Jeremiah 52:27, compare 2 Chronicles 8:4; contained Israeli exiles Isaiah 11:11; furnished colonists for Samaria 2 Kings 17:24 (compare 2 Kings 17:30 above) after being conquered by Sargon, (COT 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 18:34 compare Isaiah 10:9). [H2579 It is called great Hamath by Amos 6:2] (חֲמַת רַבָּה, חֲמַת֯ only here). ח׳ is mentioned with דַּמֶּשֶׂק, צֹר, צִידוֺן in prophecy against land Hadrach (חַדְרָךְ) Zechariah 9:2, compare Jeremiah 49:23. Often in phrase (עַדֿ) לְבאֹ ח׳ = the entrance to Hamath, i.e. the approach to Hamath, as territorial limit Judges 3:3; usually as denoting (ideal) northern limit of Israel territory Joshua 13:5; Numbers 13:21; Numbers 34:8; Amos 6:14; 1 Kings 8:65 2 Chronicles 7:8; 2 Kings 14:25; 1 Chronicles 13:5; חֲמָ֑תָה 1 Chronicles 18:3; צובָה ח׳ H25782 Chronicles 8:3, and הֵשִׁיב לִיחוּדָה אֶתדַּֿמֶּשֶׂק וְאֶתחֿ׳ 2 Kings 14:28; so also Ezekiel 47; Ezekiel 48; גְּבוּל ח׳ Ezekiel 47:17, compare Ezekiel 47:16b + Ezekiel 47:16a (strike out Co); לְבוֺא ח׳ Ezekiel 48:1, compare Ezekiel 47:20; אֶליַֿד ח׳ Ezekiel 48:1.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

13:21; 34:8

Joshua

13:5

Judges

3:3

2 Samuel

8:9

1 Kings

8:65

2 Kings

14:25; 14:28; 17:24; 17:24; 17:30; 17:30; 18:34; 18:34; 19:13; 23:33; 25:21

1 Chronicles

13:5; 18:3; 18:9

2 Chronicles

7:8; 8:3; 8:4

Isaiah

10:9; 11:11; 36:19; 37:13

Jeremiah

39:5; 49:23; 52:9; 52:27

Ezekiel

47; 47:16; 47:16; 47:17; 47:20; 48; 48:1; 48:1

Amos

6:14

Zechariah

9:2

H2574

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Strong's Number H2574 matches the Hebrew חֲמָת (ḥămāṯ),
which occurs 35 times in 33 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21 - So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:8 - And from Mount Hor the line will go in the direction of Hamath; the farthest point of it will be at Zedad:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:5 - And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, looking east, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon as far as Hamath:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:3 - The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:9 - And when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:65

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:65 - So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, (for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt,) kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:25 - He got back the old limits of Israel from the way into Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, as the Lord had said by his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of Gath-hepher.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:28 - Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all he did, and his power, and how he went to war with Damascus, causing the wrath of the Lord to be turned away from Israel, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24 - Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:30 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:34 - Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena and Ivvah? have they kept Samaria out of my hands?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:13 - Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena and of Ivvah?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:33 - And Pharaoh-necoh put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not be king in Jerusalem; and took from the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21 - And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken away prisoner from his land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:5 - So David sent for all Israel to come together, from Shihor, the river of Egypt, as far as the way into Hamath, to get the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:3 - Then David overcame Hadadezer, king of Zobah, near Hamath, when he was going to make his power seen by the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:9 - Now when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:8 - So Solomon kept the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, for the people had come together from the way into Hamath and from as far as the river of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:4 - And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:9 - Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:11 - And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:19 - Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? where are the gods of Samaria? and have they kept Samaria out of my hand?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:13 - Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivva?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:5 - But the Chaldaean army went after them and overtook Zedekiah in the lowlands of Jericho: and they made him a prisoner and took him up to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, to be judged by him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:23 - About Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for the word of evil has come to their ears, their heart in its fear is turned to water, it will not be quiet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:9 - Then they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath to be judged.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:27 - And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken prisoner away from his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:16 - To Zedad, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the limit of Damascus and the limit of Hazar-hatticon, which is on the limit of Hauran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:17 - And this is the limit from the sea in the direction of Hazar-enon; and the limit of Damascus is to the north, and on the north is the limit of Hamath. This is the north side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:20 - And the west side will be the Great Sea, from the limit on the south to a point opposite the way into Hamath. This is the west side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:1 - Now these are the names of the tribes: from the north end, from the west on the way of Hethlon to the way into Hamath, in the direction of Hazar-enon, with the limit of Damascus to the north, by Hamath; and on the limit from the east side to the west side: Dan, one part.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:14 - For see, I will send against you a nation, O Israel, says the Lord, the God of armies, ruling you cruelly from the way into Hamath as far as the stream of the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:2 - As well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and Zidon, because they are very wise.
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