Lexicon
חַמַּת
cham.mat
H2575B
N:N-M-P Hebrew

Hammath

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cham.mat names the ancestor from whom the Kenites are said to have come in 1 Chronicles 2:55.

The lone attestation uses the proper noun for Hammath as the person from whom the Kenites are said to have come.

Senses in use

  1. Ancestor named as the Kenites' source · dominant

    In 1 Chronicles 2:55, the proper noun occurs in the statement that the Kenites came from this figure; the APB renders the clause “the Kenites who came from Hammath.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 1 Chronicles 2:55, the APB presents the name in the clause “the Kenites who came from Hammath”.

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