(3.) Hebrews halmuth, a poetical word for a workman’s hammer, found
only in Judges 5:26, where it denotes the mallet with which the pins of the
tent of the nomad are driven into the ground.
(4.) Hebrews mappets, rendered “battle-axe” in Jeremiah 51:20. This was
properly a “mace,” which is thus described by Rawlinson: “The Assyrian
mace was a short, thin weapon, and must either have been made of a very
tough wood or (and this is more probable) of metal. It had an ornamented
head, which was sometimes very beautifully modelled, and generally a
strap or string at the lower end by which it could be grasped with greater
firmness.”
- HAMMOLEKETH the queen, the daughter of Machir and sister of Gilead
(1 Chronicles 7:17, 18). Abiezer was one of her three children. - HAMMON warm springs. (1.) A town in the tribe of Asher, near Zidon
(Joshua 19:28), identified with ‘Ain Hamul.
(2.) A Levitical city of Naphtali (1 Chronicles 6:76).