How to Pronounce Hamath
HAY-mehth
Hamath is pronounced HAY-mehth (ˈheɪməθ): two syllables, stress on the first. Also heard: HAY-math, HAY-muth.
What does Hamath mean?
Hamath means “anger; heat; a wall”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
Where was Hamath?
Fortress, the capital of one of the kingdoms of Upper Syria of the same name, on the Orontes, in the valley of Lebanon, at the northern boundary of Palestine (Num. 13:21; 34:8), at the foot of Hermon (Josh. 13:5) towards Damascus (Zech. 9:2; Jer. 49:23). It is called “Hamath the great” in Amos 6:2, and “Hamath-zobah” in 2 Chr. 8:3. Hamath, now Hamah, had an Aramaean population, but Hittite monuments discovered there show that it must have been at one time occupied by the Hittites. It was among the conquests of the Pharaoh Thothmes III. Its king, Tou or Toi, made alliance with David (2 Sam. 8:10), and in B.C. 740 Azariah formed a league with it against Assyria.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
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