חֲמָת
Chămâth · kham-awth'
Chamath, a place in Syria
Lexicon
Derivation: from the same as H2346 (חוֹמָה); walled;
Chamath, a place in Syria
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Hamath, Hemath.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the mark, the covenant sign
To separate and protect of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חֲמָת above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
35 occurrences · 35 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of hamath19 · 51%
- of hemath3 · 8%
- hamath3 · 8%
- to hamath2 · 5%
- and hamath2 · 5%
- and from hamath2 · 5%
- into hamath1 · 3%
- in of hamath1 · 3%
- unto hamath1 · 3%
- in hamath1 · 3%
- is not hamath1 · 3%
- ye to hamath1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.