Strong's Hebrew · H2574

חֲמָת

Chămâth · kham-awth'

Hamath, Hemath.

Definition

Chamath, a place in Syria

Derivation

from the same as H2346 (חוֹמָה); walled;

Appears 35 times in Scripture

Isaiah 10:9

“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

1 Kings 8:65

So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.

Numbers 13:21

So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.

Judges 3:3

the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.

2 Samuel 8:9

When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,

2 Kings 14:25

This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.

2 Chronicles 8:4

He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.

Joshua 13:5

the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.

Jeremiah 52:27

There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.

Numbers 34:8

and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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