Hamath: meaning of the name

Hamath in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Hamath

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Hamath in Scripture

“Hamath” appears in 33 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Numbers 13:21

  So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

• Numbers 34:8

  From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:

• Joshua 13:5

  And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal–gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.

• Judges 3:3

  Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal–hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.

• 2 Samuel 8:9

  When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,

• 1 Kings 8:65

  And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.

• 2 Kings 14:25

  He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath–hepher.

• 2 Kings 14:28

  Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?