Hammon

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. City of Asher.  Joshua 19:28 . Identified by some with Ain Hamul, 33 7' N, 35 10' E .

2. City in Naphtali allotted to the Levites.   1 Chronicles 6:76 . By comparing this list of Levitical cities with the one in  Joshua 21 , Hammon appears to be the same as Hammoth-Dor ( Joshua 21:32 ); and this, by the similarity of the name, appears to be the same as Hammath in  Joshua 19:35 .

Easton's Bible Dictionary

A Levitical city of Naphtali ( 1 Chronicles 6:76 ).

Copyright Statement These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., DD Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography Information Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Hammon'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/h/hammon.html. 1897.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ham'mon. (Warm Springs).

1. A city in Asher,  Joshua 19:28, apparently not far from Zidon-rabbah.

2. A city allotted out of the tribe of Naphtali, to the Levites,  1 Chronicles 6:76, and answering to the somewhat similar names, Hammath and Hammoth-Dor , in Joshua.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

HAMMON (‘hot spring’). 1. A town in Naphtali (  1 Chronicles 6:76 ), prob. identical with Hammath (wh. see). 2. A town in Asher (  Joshua 19:28 ). Its site is uncertain.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. A city in Asher near great Sidon ( Joshua 19:28).

2. A Levite city of Naphtali ( 1 Chronicles 6:76).

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 19:28Hammath

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Chammon', חִמּוֹן , Warm; Sept. Ἀμών and Χαμών ), the name of two places.

1. A town in the tribe of Asher, mentioned between Rehob and Kanah ( 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.

2. A Levitical city of Naphtali, assigned, with its suburbs, to the descendants of Gershom ( 1 Chronicles 6:76). Schwarz (Palest. p. 183) not improbably conjectures that it is the same with HAMMATH ( Joshua 19:25). (See Hambioth-Dor) ( Joshua 21:32).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ham´on ( חמּון , ḥammōn , "glowing"):

(1) A place on the seaward frontier of Asher, named with Rehob and Kanah ( Joshua 19:28 ), to be sought, therefore, not far from Tyre. The most probable identification so far suggested is with Umm el‛Amūd , "mother of the column" (or ‛Awāmı̄d , "columns"), at the mouth of Wādy Ḥāmūl , 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 ( CIS , I, 8).

(2) A city in Naphtali, given to the Gershonite Levites ( 1 Chronicles 6:76 ). It is identical with Hammath ( Joshua 19:35 ), and probably also with Hammoth-dor ( Joshua 21:32 ).