1. Hormah (place name) — The proper noun חָרְמָה designates Hormah, a Canaanite city in the Negev assigned to Judah and Simeon (Josh 15:30, 19:4; 1 Sam 30:30), originally named Zephath and renamed Hormah ('devoted to destruction') after the Israelite conquest (Judg 1:17, Num 21:3). All three clusters are the same toponym with grammatical variation: S99246 is the bare or articled form (חָרְמָה / הַחָרְמָה, 5x), S99248 adds conjunctions/prepositions (וְחָרְמָה 'and Hormah,' וּבְחָרְמָה 'and in Hormah,' 3x), and S99249 is the prepositional form (בְּחָרְמָה 'in Hormah,' 1x). Multilingual transliterations are consistent: Arabic حُرْمَةَ/حَرْمَة, Spanish Horma/Hormá/Jormah, Hindi होर्मा/होर्माह, Korean 호르마, Swahili Horma. The etymological connection to חֵרֶם (ban/devotion) is preserved in several traditions. 9×
AR["حَرْمةَ","حُرْمَةَ","في-حُرمَةَ","وَ-حَرْمةُ","وَ-حُرْمَةُ","وَ-في-حَرمَة"]·ben["এবং-হর্মা","ও-হর্মায়","হর্মা","হর্মা।","হর্মায়","হর্মার"]·DE["Chormah","Hormah","[ובחרמה]","der-Hormah","in-Hormah","und-Chormah"]·EN["Chormah","Hormah","and-Chormah","and-in-Chormah","in-Hormah","the-Hormah"]·FR["Chormah","Hormah","[ובחרמה]","dans-Hormah","et-Chormah","le-Hormah"]·heb["ב-חרמה","ה-חרמה","ו-חרמה","ובחרמה","חרמה"]·HI["और-हार्मा","और-होर्मा","और-होर्मा-में","चोरमह-मेइन","होर्मा","होर्माह","होर्माह।"]·ID["Horma","dan-Horma","dan-di-Horma","di-Horma"]·IT["Chormah","Hormah","[ובחרמה]","e-Chormah","il-Hormah","in-Hormah"]·jav["Horma","ing-Horma","lan-Horma","lan-ing-Horma"]·KO["그-와-에-호르마","그리고-호르마","에-호르마","호르마","호르마라고","호르마의"]·PT["Chormah","Hormah","Hormá","e-Hormah","e-Hormá","e-em-Chormah","em-Chormah"]·RU["Хорма","Хормы","в-Хорме","и-Хорма","и-в-Хорме"]·ES["Horma","Jormah","en-Horma","y-Horma","y-Hormá","y-en-Jorma"]·SW["Horma","kuaibisha","na-Horma","na-huko-Horma"]·TR["-Horma'da","Horma","Horma'nın","Horma'ya","ve-Horma","ve-Horma'da"]·urd["اور-حرمہ","اور-میں-حرمہ","حرماہ","حرمہ","حرمہ-میں","حرمہ-کا"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† חָרְמָה n.pr.loc. (asylum, cf. Arabic id., WetzstZKW v. 1884, 115)—a royal city of Canaanites, in the South, in tribe of Simeon Nu 14:45 (JE; art. only here v. Di), 21:3 (J) where name expl. from Israel’s devoting Canaanites of Arad to destruction; Jos 15:30; 19:4 (P), Dt 1:44 Jos 12:14 (D), 1 S 30:30 1 Ch 4:30; originally called צְפַת Ju 1:17, where name is said to have been changed to Ḥormah…