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<li> A Levitical city of Naphtali (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:76 ). <div> <p> '''Copyright Statement''' These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> '''Bibliography Information''' Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Hammon'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/h/hammon.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li>

<p> (Heb. Chammon', חִמּוֹן '', Warm;'' Sept. Ἀμών and Χαμών ), the name of two places. </p> <p> '''1.''' A town in the tribe of Asher, mentioned between [[Rehob]] and [[Kanah]] (&nbsp;Joshua 19:28). Dr. Robinson quotes the suggestion of Schultz as possible, that it may be the ruined town ''Hamul,'' at the head of a wady of the same name which comes down to the [[Mediterranean]] just north of En- Nakurah, somewhat south of [[Tyre]] (new ed. of ''Researches, 3,'' 66). Schwarz thinks it is identical with a village ''Hamani,'' situated, according to him, two miles south by east of Tyre ''(Palest.'' p. 192); probably the place marked on Zimmerman's and [[Van]] de Velde's [[Maps]] as ''Hunnaweh.'' The scriptural text, however, would seem to indicate a position on the northern boundary, about midway between Naphtali (at Rehob) and Sidon. Hence Knobel (Erklar. ad loc.) connects it with the village Hammana, on a wady of the same name east of Beirut, where there is now a Maronite monastery (Seetzeln, 1, 260); but this, again, is too far north (Keil, in Keil and Delitzsch, ad loc.). Van de Velde (Memoir and Map) adopts the first of the above sites, which, although neither the name nor the situation exactly agrees, is perhaps the best hitherto suggested. </p> <p> '''2.''' A Levitical city of Naphtali, assigned, with its suburbs, to the descendants of [[Gershom]] (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:76). Schwarz ''(Palest.'' p. 183) not improbably conjectures that it is the same with HAMMATH (&nbsp;Joshua 19:25). (See Hambioth-Dor) (&nbsp;Joshua 21:32). </p>

<p> ''''' ham´on ''''' ( חמּון , <i> ''''' ḥammōn ''''' </i> , "glowing"): </p> <p> (1) A place on the seaward frontier of Asher, named with Rehob and Kanah (&nbsp;Joshua 19:28 ), to be sought, therefore, not far from Tyre. The most probable identification so far suggested is with <i> '''''Umm el‛Amūd''''' </i> , "mother of the column" (or <i> '''''‛Awāmı̄d''''' </i> , "columns"), at the mouth of <i> '''''Wādy Ḥāmūl''''' </i> , on the shore, about 10 miles South of Tyre. An inscription found by Renan shows that the place was associated with the worship of '''''Ba‛al Ḥammān''''' ( <i> CIS </i> , I, 8). </p> <p> (2) A city in Naphtali, given to the [[Gershonite]] [[Levites]] (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:76 ). It is identical with Hammath (&nbsp;Joshua 19:35 ), and probably also with Hammoth-dor (&nbsp;Joshua 21:32 ). </p>