Bible Names

Hammon: meaning of the name

Hammon means “heat; the sun.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Hammon in Hebrew and Greek

חַמּוֹן H2540

Chammôwn (kham-mone') — Chammon, the name of two places in Palestine

from H2552 (חָמַם); warm spring;

Places named Hammon

Hammon in Scripture

“Hammon” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 19:28

    And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;

  • 1 Chronicles 6:76

    And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.