How to Pronounce Hormah

What does Hormah mean?

Hormah means “devoted or consecrated to God; utter destruction”.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.

Where was Hormah?

Banning; i.e., placing under a “ban,” or devoting to utter destruction. After the manifestation of God’s anger against the Israelites, on account of their rebellion and their murmurings when the spies returned to the camp at Kadesh, in the wilderness of Paran, with an evil report of the land, they quickly repented of their conduct, and presumed to go up “to the head of the mountain,” seeking to enter the Promised Land, but without the presence of the Lord, without the ark of the convenant, and without Moses. The Amalekites and the Canaanites came down and “smote and discomfited them even unto Hormah” (Num. 14:45).

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

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