H2579 H2579
1. sense 1 2×
AR["الكَبيرَةَ","حَماةَ"]·ben["মহান","হমাতে"]·DE["[חמת]","vermehrte"]·EN["Chamat","the-great"]·FR["Hamath","grande"]·heb["חמת","רבה"]·HI["बड़ी","हमात"]·ID["besar","ke-Hamat"]·IT["[חמת]","grande"]·jav["agung","dhumateng-Hamat"]·KO["에-하맛","큰"]·PT["Hamat","grande"]·RU["в-Хамат","великий"]·ES["a-Hamat","la-grande"]·SW["Hamathi","kubwa"]·TR["Hamat'a","büyük"]·urd["بڑی","حمات"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† חֲמָת, חֲמַת n.pr.loc. (√ dub.; Thes MV al. der. from חָמָה, חֲמָת = fortress, or (v. RSSem i, 140), sacred enclosure, temenos, ḥimā, cf. HalJAS 7 ème Sér. x, 392 LagBN 82, 156; but no certainty that name is Shemitic; Arabic حَمَاة, Assyrian Amattu, DlPA 275 ff. Pr 174);—mod. Ḥamâ, on el-ʿÂṣi (Orontes), 38 h. (c. 115 m.) N. of Damascus, v. BdPal. 398 f. It had a king, תֹּעִי, in David’s time 2…