Lahmam

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

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.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Lahmam (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] Lahmas ). A town of Judah (  Joshua 15:40 ), possibly mod. el-Lahm , near Beit Jibrîn.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Lah'mam. (Provisions). A town, in the Shefelah , or lowland district of Judah.  Joshua 15:40.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

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

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 15:40

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Lachmas', לִחְמָס , prob. an erroneous reading for Lachmam',

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).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

la´mam ( לחמם , laḥmām ): A town in the Judean Shephelah (  Joshua 15:40 , the Revised Version margin "Lahmas") possibly the modern el - Laḥm , 2 1/2 miles South of Beit Jibrı̂n .