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# חׇרְמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2767

**Hormah** — used 9 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

Hormah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2767/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָרְמָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2767/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (asylum, cf. Arabic id., WetzstZKW v. 1884, 115)—a royal city of Canaanites, in the South, in tribe of Simeon Nu 14:45 (JE; art. only here v. Di), 21:3 (J) where name expl. from Israel’s devoting Canaanites of Arad to destruction; Jos 15:30; 19:4 (P), Dt 1:44 Jos 12:14 (D), 1 S 30:30 1 Ch 4:30; originally called צְפַת Ju 1:17, where name is said to have been changed to Ḥormah because Judah and Simeon (after death of Joshua) devoted its inhabitants to destruction, v. Di Nu 21:3.—On site v. צְפַת.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hormah (8); of Hormah (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.14/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ חָרְמָה֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ עֲרָ֖ד אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Hormah one the.king of.Arad one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

[Joshua 15:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.30/#tree)

וְאֶלְתּוֹלַ֥ד וּכְסִ֖יל וְחָרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Eltolad and Kesil and Hormah

*JPS 1917:* and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2767.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2767/): 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).