cha.mat is a place-name used for a land, its rulers and inhabitants, and boundary points in Scripture.

The term consistently functions as a proper place-name: it marks an entrance or boundary point, identifies a land and its cities, and names the place associated with kings, inhabitants, and surrounding regions.

1. Place-name in geographic and political settings · dominant

   All supplied occurrences tag the form as a proper noun. In Numbers 34:8 the APB renders a border running toward “Lebo-Bo and Hamath,” while Ezekiel 47:17 places it on the northern side in a border description. The same name identifies a king in 2 Samuel 8:9, inhabitants in 2 Kings 17:30, and the land containing Riblah in Jeremiah 39:5.

   Numbers 34:8Ezekiel 47:172 Samuel 8:92 Kings 17:30Jeremiah 39:5Zechariah 9:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB usually presents the name as “Hamath.” In boundary contexts it also uses phrases such as “the entrance of Bo and Hamath” and “the land of Hamath”; These phrases describe the verse's setting rather than establish separate meanings.