Word Study · Strong's H2767 · Hebrew
חׇרְמָה
Chormah
khor-maw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Chormâh
“Chormah, a place in Palestine”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Chormah, a place in Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Hormah.
- 9occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 6 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 7inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 9 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 7
- וְחָרְמָֽה׃2
- חָרְמָֽה׃2
- בְּחָרְמָ֛ה1
- הַֽחָרְמָֽה׃ פ1
- וּבְחָרְמָ֖ה1
- חָרְמָה֙1
- חָרְמָֽה׃ פ1
How it is rendered · 5
- Hormah4
- and Hormah2
- [were] in Hormah1
- and in Hormah1
- the Hormah1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 5
- proper noun (a name)4
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1
- the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpl · 4
- HC/Npl · 2
- HC/R/Npl · 1
- HR/Npl · 1
- HTd/Npl · 1
All 9, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Joshua carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Numbers2 occurrences
- Numbers 14:45הַֽחָרְמָֽה׃ פhacharemahthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.here: the Hormah
- Numbers 21:3חָרְמָֽה׃ פcharemahproper noun (a name)And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.here: Hormah
Joshua3 occurrences
- Joshua 12:14חָרְמָה֙charemahproper noun (a name)the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;here: Hormah
- Joshua 15:30וְחָרְמָֽה׃vecharemahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,here: and Hormah
- Joshua 19:4וְחָרְמָֽה׃vecharemahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,here: and Hormah
