Difference between revisions of "Ammah"

<p> (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 </p> <p> (&nbsp;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]]). </p> <p> (See [[Cubit]]) </p> <p> 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. </p>

<p> ''''' am´a ''''' ( אמּה , <i> ''''' 'ammāh ''''' </i> , "mother" or "beginning"): A hill in the territory of [[Benjamin]] (&nbsp;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 &nbsp;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 &nbsp; 2 Samuel 2:24 . </p>