חַמַּת
Hammath
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Hammath’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2575 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Joshua 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Hammath” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name חמת (Chammath). It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Joshua, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. Its earliest occurrence is Joshua 19:35. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2575 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Joshua 1 verse 50%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 50%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Hammath 1×
- American Standard Version†: Hammath 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Hammath 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Hammath 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2575 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2575 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2575 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2575 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Hammath = "hot spring"
- one of the fortified cities in the territory allotted to Naphtali
Word origin
I. חַמַּת n.pr.loc. ( hot springs)—town in Naphtali Jos 19:35
II. חַמַּת n.pr.m. father of the house of Rechab 1 Ch 2:55.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חמת דאר (Chammôth Dôʼr) (H2576) — Hammath-dor.
Jastrow Dictionary
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.
חֵמֶת
- (b. h.) the skin of a goat drawn off the body without opening the belly and sewed up and pitched at the ends where the legs and the tail were cut off (v. Sm. Bible Dict. s. v. Bottle), bottle, bag. Kel. XIX, 8 הח׳ שבצים וכ׳ a bottle (of a skin of a he-goat) whose scrotum (originally made to receive liquids in connection with the bottle) became defective. Ib. XX, 2 חֵמַת חלילין bag of the bagpipe (ascaula). Ib. XXVIII, 5 ח׳ שעשאה שטיח a closed up pouched skin which (by cutting open) was made a spread skin. Sabb. 152ᵃ a woman is ח׳ מלא דם(!) a bag full of blood (v. vers. Ms. O. in Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 7). Tosef. Kel. B. Kam. VI, 13. Ib. VII, 11 הח׳ מעור הדג a bag made of the skin of a fish. Y. Ab. Zar. IV, end, 44ᵇ bot. בחֶמְתּוֹ (not מח׳) in his wine bottle; a. fr.—Pl. חֲמָתוֹת. Kel. XXVI, 4 (5) כל ח׳ Mish. ed. (Talm. ed. כלי, corr. acc.); Men. 37ᵇ. Ḥull. 107ᵇ בבלאי ח׳ with pieces of goat skins wrapt around their hands (like gloves).—Midr. Till. to Ps. CXXXVII חֵמוֹת.
חַמָּת
- Ḥammath, name of a demon (fever, cmp. חֵימְתָא). Snh. 101ᵃ זיקא דח׳ וכ׳ the blast (breath; Ms. M. ריקא the spittle) of Ḥ. do I see in thy face (an eruption).
חַמַּת
- , constr. of חַמָּה heat of; מֵחַ׳ through the heat of, from the effect of, in consequence of. B. Mets. VI, 3 מח׳ המעלה overcome by heat through the exertion of climbing up the ascent. Ḥull. 4ᵇ מתו אחיו מח׳ מילה his brothers had died in consequence of the circumcision. Nidd. 36ᵇ מח׳ עצמה spontaneously; מח׳ ולד in consequence of travailing; מח׳ אונס from an accidental cause; a. fr.—(Also in Chald. phraseology) Targ. II, Esth. VII, 9 מחמת ד־ (ed. Lag. מהֵימַת) because they take &c.—B. Kam. 114ᵃ כל אונסא דאתי מֵחַמְתֵיה any injury that may arise from his action (of selling). Ab. Zar. 15ᵃ אזל מחמתיה (the animal) moves at his instance; a. fr. e.g. Esther 7:9
חֲמֵת
- (v. חֵמְתָא) to get hot, angry. [חמת־, to see, v. חֲמִי.]
- to make angry. Targ. Prov. XX, 2 מְחַמֵּית (Var. מַחְמֵית).
חֲמָת
- (b. h.) Hamath, a Syrian city, near the later Antiochia. Targ. O. Num. XIII, 21 (Y. אנטוכיא); ib. XXXIV, 8 (Y. טיבריא, v. חַמְּתָא); a. fr.—Num. R. s. 10 (ref. to Am. VI, 2) זו חֲמת אנטוכיא that is H. near Antiochia (Yalk. Am. 545 זה אנט׳). e.g. Amos 6:2
חַמַּת ²
- (b. h.) Hammath, v. חַמְּתָא.
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H2575 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/חַמַּ֖ת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 19:35 | 1 |
| מֵ/חַמַּ֖ת | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:55 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hammath). 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
Warm springs, one of the "fenced cities" of Naphtali (Josh. 19:35). It is identified with the warm baths (the heat of the water ranging from 136 degrees to 144 degrees) still found on the shore a little to the south of Tiberias under the name of Hummam Tabariyeh ("Bath of Tiberias").
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(warm springs), one of the fortified cities in the territory allotted to Naphtali. (Joshua 19:35) It was near Tiberias, one mile distant, and had its name Chammath, "hot baths," because it contained those of Tiberias. In the list of Levitical cities given out of Naphtali, (Joshua 21:32) the name of this place seems to be given as HAMMOTH-DOR.
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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