Lexical Definition

‎חַמָּן‎ chammân (kham-mawn') pillar ^H:N-M
from ‎חַמָּה‎

idol, image.

• a sun-pillar

1) incense altar, sun-pillar, idol, image
1a) used in idolatrous worship

See Greek: βδέλυγμα · εἴδωλον · ξύλινος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎חַמָּן‎] noun masculine sun-pillar, used in idolatrous worship (see Thes^{489 ff.} RS^{Semitic i, 469}, Lag^{M i, 228} Now ^{Archaeology ii, 302}; = Palmyrene ‎חמנא‎ Vog^{No. 123 a}; **= Cooke^{N. Semitic Inscr., No. 136}; Lzb^{Ephem. ii {1906}, 280}; Phoenician ‎לבעל חמן‎ often as epithet of solar Baal); — only plural absolute ‎חַמָּנִים‎ Isa 27:9 + 4 t.; suffix ‎חַמָּנֵיכֶם‎ Lev 26:30 + 2 t.; || ‎בָּמוֺת‎ Lev 26:30 (H), 2Chr 14:4*, compare Ezek 6:4; Ezek 6:6 || ‎מזבחות‎ ‎הבעלים‎ 2Chr 34:4 || ‎אשׁרים‎ Isa 17:8; Isa 27:9 || ‎אשׁרים‎ and ‎פְּסִלִים‎ 2Chr 34:7.

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