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# חַמּוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2540

**Hammon** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hammon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2540/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַמּוֹן: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2540/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (hot spring?)— town in Asher Jos 19:28. in Naphtali 1 Ch 6:61 (perhaps = 1. חַמַּת, חַמַּת דֹּאר, v. Be and Di Jos 19:35).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hammon (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 19:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.28/#tree)

וְעֶבְרֹ֥ן וּרְחֹ֖ב וְחַמּ֣וֹן וְקָנָ֑ה עַ֖ד צִיד֥וֹן רַבָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Ebron and Rehob and Hammon and Kanah to Sidon great

*JPS 1917:* and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon.

[1 Chronicles 6:61](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.61/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.61/#tree)

וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה נַפְתָּלִ֗י אֶת־קֶ֤דֶשׁ בַּגָּלִיל֙ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔יהָ וְאֶת־חַמּ֖וֹן וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֑יהָ וְאֶת־קִרְיָתַ֖יִם וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶֽׁיהָ׃ס

*Word for word:* and from the.tribe of.Naphtali (et) Kedesh in (the) Galilee and (et) lands its.pasture and (et) Hammon and (et) lands its.pasture and (et) Kiriathaim and (et) lands its.pasture

*JPS 1917:* and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with the open land about it, and Hammon with the open land about it, and Kiriathaim with the open land about it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2540.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2540/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).