Hor'mah. (a place laid waste), or Zephath, Judges 1:17, was the chief town of a king of a Canaanitish tribe, on the south of Palestine, which was reduced by Joshua, and became a city of the territory of Judah, Joshua 15:30; 1 Samuel 30:30, but apparently belonged to Simeon. 1 Chronicles 4:30. See Zephath.