Lexical Definition

‎חַמַּת‎ Chammath (klam-math') Hammath ^N:N--L
a variation for the first part of ‎חַמֹּת דֹּאר‎; hot springs

Hammath.

• § Hammath = "hot spring"
• Chammath, a place in Palestine

1) one of the fortified cities in the territory allotted to Naphtali

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: חַמֹּת דֹּאר | חַמּוֹן

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, ᵐ5^L Αμμαθ; Jos^{Ant. «JOSEPHUS:Antiquities 18:2»xviii, 2}. 3 Αμμαθους (ed. Niese), compare Id.^{BJ. «JOSEPHUS:Wars of the Jews 4:1»iv, 1}.3 Guthe^{ZPV 1891, xiii, 284}; probably = Talmud „amata Nbr^{Géogr. du Talm. 207} (with hot springs), 35 minutes south of Tiberias, see Rob^{BR ii, 385} Buhl^{ZPV xiii, 1890, 39 f.} Guthe^l. with GASm^{Geogr, 450} (Furrer^{ZPV ii, 1878, 55; xiii, 1890, 194 ff.} and others say north of Tiberias); see ‎חַמֹּת דּאֹר‎, ‎חַמּוֺן‎ below & above

II. ‎חַמַּת‎ proper name, masculine father of the house of Rechab 1Chr 2:55.

‎חַמַּת‎ proper name, of a location see below ‎חמם‎. ‎חֵן‎, ‎חֵנָדָד‎, ‎חַנָּה‎ see below ‎חנן‎.

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