חֲמָת

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.

The 14 distinct written forms H2574 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form	Parsing	Example	Uses
חֲמָ֑ת	Noun, Proper	Ezekiel 47:16	11
חֲמָ֖ת	Noun, Proper	Amos 6:14	5
חֲמָת֙	Noun, Proper	2 Kings 19:13	4
חֲמָ֔ת	Noun, Proper	Ezekiel 48:1	3
חֲמָֽת	Noun, Proper	Joshua 13:5	3
בַּ/חֲמָֽת	Noun, Proper	2 Chronicles 8:4	1
וּ/מֵ֣/חֲמָ֔ת	Noun, Proper	Isaiah 11:11	1
וּ/מֵֽ/חֲמָת֙	Noun, Proper	2 Kings 17:24	1
חֲמָ֑תָ/ה	Noun, Proper	1 Chronicles 18:3	1
חֲמָ֛ת	Noun, Proper	2 Kings 14:28	1
חֲמָ֜ת	Noun, Proper	2 Kings 18:34	1
חֲמָ֡ת	Noun, Proper	Ezekiel 48:1	1
חֲמָ֣ת	Noun, Proper	1 Kings 8:65	1
חֲמָ֤ת	Noun, Proper	Ezekiel 47:16	1

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2574, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

• חומה chôwmâh H2346 wall

Shares the same root

• חם châm H2524 father-in-law
• חמאה chemʼâh H2529 butter
• חמת chêmeth H2573 waterskin

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

• חמתי Chămâthîy H2577 Hamathite
• חמת צובה Chămath Tsôwbâh H2578 Hamath-zobah
• חמת רבה Chămath Rabbâh H2579 Hamath-rabbah

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hamath). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

Fortress, the capital of one of the kingdoms of Upper Syria of the same name, on the Orontes, in the valley of Lebanon, at the northern boundary of Palestine (Num. 13:21; 34:8), at the foot of Hermon (Josh. 13:5) towards Damascus (Zech. 9:2; Jer. 49:23). It is called "Hamath the great" in Amos 6:2, and "Hamath-zobah" in 2 Chr. 8:3.

Hamath, now Hamah, had an Aramaean population, but Hittite monuments discovered there show that it must have been at one time occupied by the Hittites. It was among the conquests of the Pharaoh Thothmes III. Its king, Tou or Toi, made alliance with David (2 Sam. 8:10), and in B.C. 740 Azariah formed a league with it against Assyria. It was, however, conquered by the Assyrians, and its nineteen districts placed under Assyrian governors. In B.C. 720 it revolted under a certain Yahu-bihdi, whose name, compounded with that of the God of Israel (Yahu), perhaps shows that he was of Jewish origin. But the revolt was suppressed, and the people of Hamath were transported to Samaria (2 Kings 17:24, 30), where they continued to worship their god Ashima. Hamah is beautifully situated on the Orontes, 32 miles north of Emesa, and 36 south of the ruins of Assamea.

The kingdom of Hamath comprehended the great plain lying on both banks of the Orontes from the fountain near Riblah to Assamea on the north, and from Lebanon on the west to the desert on the east. The "entrance of Hamath" (Num. 34:8), which was the north boundary of Palestine, led from the west between the north end of Lebanon and the Nusairiyeh mountains.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(fortress), the principal city of upper Syria, was situated in the valley of the Orontes, which it commanded from the low screen of hills which forms the water-shed between the source of the Orontes and Antioch. The Hamathites were a Hamitic race, and are included among the descendants of Canaan. (Genesis 10:18) Nothing appears of the power of Hamath until the time of David. (2 Samuel 8:9) Hamath seems clearly to have been included in the dominions of Solomon. (1 Kings 4:21-24) The "store-cities" which Solomon "built in Hamath," (2 Chronicles 8:4) were perhaps staples for trade. In the Assyrian inscriptions of the time of Ahab (B.C. 900) Hamath appears as a separate power, in alliance with the Syrians of Damascus, the Hittites and the Phoenicians. About three-quarters of a century later Jeroboam the Second "recovered Hamath." (2 Kings 14:28) Soon afterwards the Assyrians took it, (2 Kings 18:34; 19:13) etc., and from this time it ceased to be a place of much importance. Antiochus Epiphanes changed its name to Epiphaneia. The natives, however, called it Hamath even in St. Jerome's time, and its present name, Hamah, is but slightly altered from the ancient form.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

anger; heat; a wall

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This word appears in 32 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 33 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

Read these verses in the Septuagint

• Numbers 13:21
• Joshua 13:5
• Judges 3:3
• 2 Samuel 8:9
• 1 Kings 8:65
• 2 Kings 14:25
• 1 Chronicles 13:5
• 2 Chronicles 7:8
• Isaiah 10:9
• Jeremiah 39:5
• Ezekiel 47:16
• Amos 6:14

This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.