Hormah
חׇרְמָהStrong’s H2767chormah (chor-mah)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chormah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hormah”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.”
Meaning
- Hormah = "devotion"
How it's translated
- hormah 5
- and hormah 2
- in hormah 1
- and in hormah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 3
- Numbers 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Judges 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 21:3And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
- Deuteronomy 1:44And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
- Joshua 12:14The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
- Joshua 15:30And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
- Joshua 19:4And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
- Judges 1:17And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.
Hebrew dictionary
חׇרְמָה chormah · Hormah
Hormah = "devotion" a town of the Canaanites, conquered by Joshua, allotted to Judah, and located in the south of Judah Another name of tse.phat (צְפַ֑ת "Zephath" H6857)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.