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# חַמָּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2553

**sun-pillar** — used 8 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

sun-pillar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2553/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַמָּן: n.m. sun-pillar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2553/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. sun-pillar, used in idolatrous worship (v. Thes489 ff. RSSem, i, 485 Lag Mi, 228 NowArch. ii, 302; = Palm. חמנא VogNo. 123 a; = Cooke N. Sem. Inscr., No. 136; LzbEphem. ii. (1906), 280; Ph. לבעל חמן often as epithet of solar Baal);—only pl. abs. חַמָּנִים Is 27:9 + 4 times; sf. חַמָּנֵיכֶם Lv 26:30 + 2 times; ‖ בָּמוֹת Lv 26:30 (H), 2 Ch 14:4, cf. Ez 6:4, 6; ‖ מזבחות הבעלים 2 Ch 34:4; ‖ אשׁרים Is 17:8; 27:9; ‖ אשׁרים and פְּסִלִים 2 Ch 34:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: altars (7); incense altars (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 6:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.6.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.6.4/#tree)

וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ מִזְבְּח֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם וְנִשְׁבְּר֖וּ חַמָּֽנֵיכֶ֑ם וְהִפַּלְתִּי֙ חַלְלֵיכֶ֔ם לִפְנֵ֖י גִּלּוּלֵיכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.be.made.desolate altars your and they.will.be.shattered altars your.incense and I.will.make.fall your.slain \[ones\] before idols your

*JPS 1917:* And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

[2 Chronicles 14:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.14.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.14.4/#tree)

וַיָּ֙סַר֙ מִכָּל־עָרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה אֶת־הַבָּמ֖וֹת וְאֶת־הַֽחַמָּנִ֑ים וַתִּשְׁקֹ֥ט הַמַּמְלָכָ֖ה לְפָנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.removed from all the.cities of.Judah (et) the.high places and (et) the.incense altars and it.was.at.peace the kingdom before him

*JPS 1917:* Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2553.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2553/): 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).