H2540

חַמּוֹן

cham.monN:N--L

Hammon

Hammon = "warm springs" a town in Naphtali allotted to the Levites; also called 'Hammath' and 'Hammoth-dor' Another name of cham.mat (חַמַּת "Hammath" H2575A)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

חַמּוֺן proper name, of a location (hot spring ?) —

1. town in Asher Josh 19:28.
2. in Naphtali 1Chr 6:61 (perhaps = 1. חַמַּת, חַמַּת דּאֹר, see Be and Di Josh 19:35).



I. חַמַּת proper name, of a location (hot spring) — town in Naphtali Josh 19:35 (perhaps = חַמּוֺן 2 see Di); ᵐ5 Ωμαθαδακεθ (= חַמַּת רַקַּת), A Αμαθ, ᵐ5L Αμμαθ; JosAnt. «JOSEPHUS:Antiquities 18:2»xviii, 2. 3 Αμμαθους (ed. Niese), compare Id.BJ. «JOSEPHUS:Wars of the Jews 4:1»iv, 1.3 GutheZPV 1891, xiii, 284; probably = Talmud „amata NbrGéogr. du Talm. 207 (with hot springs), 35 minutes south of Tiberias, see RobBR ii, 385 BuhlZPV xiii, 1890, 39 f. Guthel. with GASmGeogr, 450 (FurrerZPV ii, 1878, 55; xiii, 1890, 194 ff. and others say north of Tiberias); see חַמֹּת דּאֹר, חַמּוֺן below & above


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