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Hammon

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. . 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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Bibliography Information
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.
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