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== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30442" /> == | == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30442" /> == | ||
2 Samuel 2:24 | |||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34484" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34484" /> == | ||
<p> A hill facing [[Giah]] by way of the wilderness of Gibeon, where [[Joab]] ceased pursuing [[Abner]] after Asahel's death ( | <p> 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. </p> | ||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_38455" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_38455" /> == | ||
2 Samuel 2:24 | |||
== Hitchcock's Bible Names <ref name="term_44932" /> == | == Hitchcock's Bible Names <ref name="term_44932" /> == | ||
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== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49353" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49353" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> AMMAH </strong> ( | <p> <strong> AMMAH </strong> ( 2 Samuel 2:24 only). A hill near Giah, in the wilderness of Gibeon. [[Site]] unknown. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_64706" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_64706" /> == | ||
<p> [[Hill]] to which [[Joab]] pursued [[Abner]] and Abishai, it was 'before [[Giah]] by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.' | <p> [[Hill]] to which [[Joab]] pursued [[Abner]] and Abishai, it was 'before [[Giah]] by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.' 2 Samuel 2:24 . </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71010" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71010" /> == | ||
<p | <p> 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. </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_780" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_780" /> == | ||
<p> '''''am´a''''' ( | <p> '''''am´a''''' ( אמּה , <i> ''''''ammāh''''' </i> , "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 . </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_19620" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_19620" /> == | ||
<p> (Hebrew 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> (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> | ||
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