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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36339" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36339" /> == | ||
<p> A town in the | <p> A town in the '''''Shephelah''''' or "rolling hills" of Judah ( Joshua 15:40). From the same root as Bethlehem, "the house of bread." Now [[El]] Hamam, six miles S.E. of Ajlan or Eglon, in a wheat-producing region. </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52340" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52340" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_47828" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_47828" /> == | ||
<p> (Heb. Lachmas', לִחְמָס, prob. an erroneous reading for ''Lachmam','' </p> <p> לִחְמָם, ''Their Bread,'' which is read in some MSS., and which the Vulg. and Auth.Vers. follow, Septuag. Λαμάς,Vulg. ''Lehemam),'' a city in the plain of Judah, mentioned between [[Cabbon]] and [[Kithlish]] ( Joshua 15:40), probably situated among the [[Philistines]] west of the Highlands of Judaea. A writer in Fairbairn's ''Dictionary,'' s.v., by a series of arguments resting essentially upon the insecure foundation of the mere [[Order]] of the names in Joshua, seeks to identify Lahmam with the ''El-Humam'' mentioned by Smith in the list in Robinson's ''Researches'' (iii, Append. p. 119); but of this place there is no other trace save perhaps the name ''Tell-Imamn'' on Zimmerman's ''Map,'' some six miles to the S.E. of the vicinity of the other associated names, and apparently out of the bounds of the group, if not of the tribe itself. Lahmam is possibly the present ''Beit-Lehia,'' a short distance N.E. of [[Gaza]] (Robinson, 3:Append. p. 118; [[Van]] de Velde, ''Memoir,'' p. 115). </p> | <p> (Heb. Lachmas', '''''לִחְמָס''''' , prob. an erroneous reading for ''Lachmam','' </p> <p> '''''לִחְמָם''''' , ''Their Bread,'' which is read in some MSS., and which the Vulg. and Auth.Vers. follow, Septuag. '''''Λαμάς''''' ,Vulg. ''Lehemam),'' a city in the plain of Judah, mentioned between [[Cabbon]] and [[Kithlish]] ( Joshua 15:40), probably situated among the [[Philistines]] west of the Highlands of Judaea. A writer in Fairbairn's ''Dictionary,'' s.v., by a series of arguments resting essentially upon the insecure foundation of the mere [[Order]] of the names in Joshua, seeks to identify Lahmam with the ''El-Humam'' mentioned by Smith in the list in Robinson's ''Researches'' (iii, Append. p. 119); but of this place there is no other trace save perhaps the name ''Tell-Imamn'' on Zimmerman's ''Map,'' some six miles to the S.E. of the vicinity of the other associated names, and apparently out of the bounds of the group, if not of the tribe itself. Lahmam is possibly the present ''Beit-Lehia,'' a short distance N.E. of [[Gaza]] (Robinson, 3:Append. p. 118; [[Van]] de Velde, ''Memoir,'' p. 115). </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_5780" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_5780" /> == | ||
<p> ''''' la´mam ''''' ( לחמם , <i> ''''' laḥmām ''''' </i> ): A town in the [[Judean]] [[Shephelah]] ( Joshua 15:40 , the Revised Version margin "Lahmas") possibly the modern <i> '''''el''''' </i> - <i> '''''Laḥm''''' </i> , 2 1/2 miles South of <i> '''''Beit''''' </i> <i> '''''Jibrı̂n''''' </i> . </p> | <p> ''''' la´mam ''''' ( לחמם , <i> ''''' laḥmām ''''' </i> ): A town in the [[Judean]] [[Shephelah]] ( Joshua 15:40 , the Revised Version margin "Lahmas") possibly the modern <i> ''''' el ''''' </i> - <i> ''''' Laḥm ''''' </i> , 2 1/2 miles South of <i> ''''' Beit ''''' </i> <i> ''''' Jibrı̂n ''''' </i> . </p> | ||
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