חׇרְמָהChormâh
Chormah, a place in Palestine
Pronunciation: khor-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2767
Meanings
proper name [of a location]: a royal city of Canaanites, in the South, in tribe of Simeon (Numbers 14:45; Numbers 21:3; Joshua 15:30; Joshua 19:4; Deuteronomy 1:44)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 14:45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in those hills came down and attacked them and chased them back as far as Hormah.
- Numbers 21:3 The Lord heard the Israelites’ request and gave them victory over the Canaanites. The Israelites completely destroyed them and their towns, and the place has been called Hormah ever since.
- Deuteronomy 1:44 But the Amorites who lived there came out against you like a swarm of bees. They chased and battered you all the way from Seir to Hormah.
- Joshua 12:14 The king of Hormah The king of Arad
- Joshua 15:30 Eltolad, Kesil, Hormah,
- Joshua 19:4 Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).