Bible Encyclopedias
Hammon
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
- A place in the territory of Asher, mentioned in Joshua 19:28, between Rehob and Kanah. It is believed that the ruins now called "Ummel-'Amud" (or "'Awamid") occupy its site.
- A city allotted to the Levites out of the tribe of Naphtali, and assigned with its suburbs to the descendants of Gershom (1 Chronicles 6:61 [A. V. 76]). B. P.
- . Name of a deity (
) mentioned in two Phenician inscriptions dedicated to "El-Ḥammon" and discovered by Ernest Renan in the ruins of Hammon, the modern Umm al-'Awamid, between Tyre and Acre. One of these inscriptions is dated 221 B.C., under the government of Ptolemy III. The Biblical place-names were possibly connected with the name of this deity.
Bibliography:- For No. 3, C. I. S. (text) 33;
- G. Hoffmann, Ueber Einige Phön. Inschriften, in Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 36:21;
- Baethgen, Beiträge zur Semitischen Religions-Gesch. p. 27.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Hammon'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/h/hammon.html. 1901.