Ammah

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Am'mah. (Head). The Hill Of Ammah. A hill facing Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon, named as the point to which Joab pursued Abner  2 Samuel 2:24.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A hill facing Giah by way of the wilderness of Gibeon, where Joab ceased pursuing Abner after Asahel's death ( 2 Samuel 2:24). Vulgate mentions a watercourse near, and Robinson describes an excavated fountain under the high rock near Gibeon.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Hill to which Joab pursued Abner and Abishai, it was 'before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.'  2 Samuel 2:24 .

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Ammah (  2 Samuel 2:24 only). A hill near Giah, in the wilderness of Gibeon. Site unknown.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 2 Samuel 2:24

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 2 Samuel 2:24

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrew Ammah', אִמָּה , A Cubit, as often;. Sept. Ἀμμά v. r. Ἀμμάν ) , a hill "that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon:" the sun went down as Joab and Abishai reached this place in pursuit of Abner

( 2 Samuel 2:24). The description appears to indicate some eminence immediately east of Gibeon (q.v.). Josephus (Ant. 7, 1, 3) renders, "a place called Ammata" ( Τόπος Τις , Ὃν Ἀμμάταν Καλοῦσι ); compare the Amta ( אִמְתָּא ) of Jonathan's Targum. Both Symmachus ( Νάπη ) and Theodotion ( Ὑδραγωγός ) agree with the Vulgate in an allusion to some water-course here. It is possibly to the "excavated fountain" "under the high rock," described as near Gibeon (El-Jib) By Robinson (Researches, 2, 136). (See Metheg-Ammah).

(See Cubit)

in Egyptian mythology, was the name of the Gate of the Dead, or of Hades, from whence, according to the Ritual of the Dead, the souls of the deceased went out on their way to heaven.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

am´a ( אמּה , 'ammāh , "mother" or "beginning"): A hill in the territory of Benjamin ( 2 Samuel 2:24 ), where Joab and Abishai halted at nightfall in their pursuit of Abner and his forces after their victory over him in the battle of Gibeon. It "lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon"; but the exact location has not been identified. The same Hebrew word appears as the second part of Metheg-ammah in  2 Samuel 8:1 the King James Version, but rendered "mother city" in the Revised Version (British and American), probably however not the same place as in   2 Samuel 2:24 .