Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H2574
חֲמָת
Chamathkham-awth'
Hamath
35 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Chămâth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2574is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2574
Chamath, a place in Syria
The King James renders it: Hamath, Hemath.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Chamath is rendered "Hamath". It stands 35 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Eight of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 13:21So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
Numbers 13:21חֲמָֽת׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in thirteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Hamath31
- and from Hamath2
- Hamath towards1
- in Hamath1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֲמָתִי | Chamathi | Hamathite | Uses2 |
The words it stands beside
All 35, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חֲמָ֑ת11
- חֲמָ֖ת5
- חֲמָת֙4
- חֲמָ֔ת3
- חֲמָֽת׃3
- בַּחֲמָֽת׃1
- וּמֵֽחֲמָת֙1
- וּמֵ֣חֲמָ֔ת1
- חֲמָ֛ת1
- חֲמָ֜ת1
- חֲמָ֡ת1
- חֲמָ֣ת׀1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)31HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)2HC/R/Npl
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1HNpl/Sd
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npl
Numbers
two uses
So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
- חֲמָֽת׃chamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,
- חֲמָ֑תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
Joshua
one use
the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.
- חֲמָֽת׃chamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
Judges
one use
the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.
- חֲמָֽת׃chamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
2 Samuel
one use
When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,
- חֲמָ֑תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
1 Kings
one use
So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
- חֲמָ֣ת׀chamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
2 Kings
eight uses
This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
- חֲמָ֖תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
As for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, along with all his accomplishments and might, and how he waged war and recovered both Damascus and Hamath for Israel from Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
- חֲמָ֛תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.
- וּמֵֽחֲמָת֙umechamatconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and from Hamath
The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,
- חֲמָ֖תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
- חֲמָ֜תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
- חֲמָת֙chamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
- חֲמָ֔תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.
- חֲמָ֑תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
1 Chronicles
three uses
So David assembled all Israel, from the River Shihor in Egypt to Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
- חֲמָ֑תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
As far as Hamath, David also defeated King Hadadezer of Zobah, who had marched out to establish his dominion along the Euphrates River.
- חֲמָ֑תָהchamatahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Hamath towards
When King Tou of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,
- חֲמָ֑תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
2 Chronicles
two uses
So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast for seven days.
- חֲמָ֖תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.
- בַּחֲמָֽת׃bachamatpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Hamath
Isaiah
four uses
“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- חֲמָ֔תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
- וּמֵ֣חֲמָ֔תumechamatconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and from Hamath
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
- חֲמָת֙chamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
- חֲמָת֙chamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
Jeremiah
four uses
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.
- חֲמָ֑תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
- חֲמָת֙chamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.
- חֲמָ֑תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.
- חֲמָ֑תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
Ezekiel
six uses
On the north side it will extend from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon through Lebo-hamath to Zedad, Berothah, and Sibraim (which is on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.
- חֲמָ֤ת׀chamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
- חֲמָ֑תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
So the border will run from the Sea to Hazar-enan, along the northern border of Damascus, with the territory of Hamath to the north. This will be the northern boundary.
- חֲמָ֑תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
And on the west side, the Great Sea will be the boundary up to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This will be the western boundary.
- חֲמָ֑תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
“Now these are the names of the tribes: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion bordering the road of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath and running on to Hazar-enan on the border of Damascus with Hamath to the north, and extending from the east side to the west side.
- חֲמָ֡תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
- חֲמָ֔תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
Amos
one use
For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
- חֲמָ֖תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
Zechariah
one use
and also against Hamath, which borders it, as well as Tyre and Sidon, though they are very shrewd.
- חֲמָ֖תchamatproper noun (a name)tagged: Hamath
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.