chamat ((Zobah)-Hamath)

Meaning

Hamath = "fortress"
§ Zoba or Zobah = "station"

How it's translated

zobah 10
from zobah 1
and from zobah 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

2 Samuel 6
1 Chronicles 4
1 Samuel 1
1 Kings 1

4 books in all.

Related words

Hamath-zobah (chamat tsovah)

Explore in Scripture

2 Samuel 8:3David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.
2 Samuel 8:5And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
2 Samuel 8:12Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
2 Samuel 10:6And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
2 Samuel 10:8And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
2 Samuel 23:36Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

All 12 verses, by book

1 Samuel 1: 14:47
2 Samuel 6: 8:3 8:5 8:12 10:6 10:8 23:36
1 Kings 1: 11:23
1 Chronicles 4: 18:3 18:5 18:9 19:6

Hebrew dictionary

חֲמָת chamat · (Zobah)-Hamath

Hamath = "fortress" the principle city of upper Syria in the valley of the Orontes Combined with tso.va (צוֹבָא "Zobah" H6678)

צוֹבָא tsova · Zobah

§ Zoba or Zobah = "station" the name of a portion of Syria which formed a separate kingdom in the times of Saul, David, and Solomon; located northeast of Damascus

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).