Difference between revisions of "Lahmam"

<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>

<p> <strong> LAHMAM </strong> (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] <strong> [[Lahmas]] </strong> ). A town of [[Judah]] ( Joshua 15:40 ), possibly mod. <em> el-Lahm </em> , near Beit Jibrîn. </p>

<p> Lah'mam. (provisions). A town, in the Shefelah, or lowland district of Judah. Joshua 15:40. </p>

<p> City in the lowlands of Judah. Joshua 15:40 . Identified with ruins at <i> el Lahm, </i> 31 34' N, 34 54' E . </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>

<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>