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Hamonah — prophetic place name meaning 'multitude', Gog's burial city
A symbolic place name meaning 'multitude' or 'horde,' designating the city to be founded near Gog's burial site. Ezekiel's vision describes a future battle where God defeats Gog, and the site becomes memorialized by a city named for the multitude buried there. The name itself serves as a monument to God's victory over Israel's enemies.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Translations preserve the proper name 'Hamonah,' though its symbolic meaning ('multitude') connects to the context of massive burial. The text itself is considered textually difficult by some scholars. Ezekiel 39:16 uses this name to mark the transformation of a battlefield into a memorial, with the very name testifying to the magnitude of God's judgment on Gog. 1×
AR["هَمُونَةُ"]·ben["হামোনা"]·DE["[המונה]"]·EN["Hamonah"]·FR["foule"]·heb["המונה"]·HI["हमोनाह"]·ID["Hamona"]·IT["[המונה]"]·jav["Hamona"]·KO["하모나이다"]·PT["Hamona"]·RU["Гамона"]·ES["Hamona"]·SW["Hamona"]·TR["Hamona"]·urd["ہمونہ-ہوگا"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† הֲמוֹנָהֿ n.pr.loc. a city appar. to be founded to commemorate defeat of Gog, וְגַם שֶׁם־עִיר ה׳ Ez 39:16, but text dub. cf. Da; Co proposes וגמר המונו v. הֲמוֹן supr.