# H2574 חֲמָת

חֲמָת (Chămâth), Strong’s H2574: Chamath, a place in Syria KJV: Hamath, Hemath.. Occurs 35 times.

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*Chămâth* — Chamath, a place in Syria

KJV: Hamath, Hemath.

Derived from [חוֹמָה chôwmâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H2346) (a wall of protection)

Occurs 35 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חֲמָת, חֲמַת n.pr.loc. (√ dub.; fortress). It is called great Hamath by Am 6:2 (חֲמַת רַבָּה)

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 13:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/13?v=21) — So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
- [Numbers 34:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/34?v=8) — From Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the border shall pass by Zedad.
- [Joshua 13:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/13?v=5) — and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of…
- [Judges 3:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/3?v=3) — the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from…
- [2 Samuel 8:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/8?v=9) — When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer,
- [1 Kings 8:65](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/8?v=65) — So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the…
- [2 Kings 14:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/14?v=25) — He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the LORD, the God…
- [2 Kings 14:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/14?v=28) — Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered Damascus…
- [2 Kings 17:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/17?v=24) — The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed…
- [2 Kings 17:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/17?v=30) — The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,