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,
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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).