Easton's Bible Dictionary

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  • HAMMOTH-DOR warm springs, a Levitical city of Naphtali (Joshua
    21:32); probably Hammath in 19:35.

  • HAMON See BAAL-HAMON.

  • HAMONAH multitude, a name figuratively assigned to the place in which
    the slaughter and burial of the forces of Gog were to take place (Ezekiel
    39:16).

  • HAMON-GOG multitude of Gog, the name of the valley in which the
    slaughtered forces of Gog are to be buried (Ezekiel 39:11,15), “the valley
    of the passengers on the east of the sea.”

  • HAMOR he-ass, a Hivite from whom Jacob purchased the plot of ground
    in which Joseph was afterwards buried (Genesis 33:19). He is called
    “Emmor” in Acts 7:16. His son Shechem founded the city of that name
    which Simeon and Levi destroyed because of his crime in the matter of
    Dinah, Jacob’s daughter (Genesis 34:20). Hamor and Shechem were also
    slain (ver. 26).

  • HAMUL spared, one of the sons of Pharez, son of Judah (1 Chronicles
    2:5). His descendants are called Hamulites (Numbers 26:21).

  • HAMUTAL kinsman of the dew, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, wife
    of king Josiah, and mother of king Jehoahaz (2 Kings 23:31), also of king
    Zedekiah (2 Kings 24:18).

  • HANAMEEL whom God has graciously given, the cousin of Jeremiah, to
    whom he sold the field he possessed in Anathoth, before the siege of
    Jerusalem (Jeremiah 32:6-12).

  • HANAN merciful. (1.) A Benjamite (1 Chronicles 8:23). (2.) One of
    David’s heroes (1 Chronicles 11:43). (3.) Jeremiah 35:4. (4.) A descendant
    of Saul (1 Chronicles 8:38). (5.) One of the Nethinim (Ezra 2:46). (6.) One
    of the Levites who assisted Ezra (Nehemiah 8:7). (7.) One of the chiefs
    who subscribed the covenant (Nehemiah 10:22).

  • HANANEEL God has graciously given, a tower in the wall of Jerusalem
    (Nehemiah 3:1; 12:39). It is mentioned also in Jeremiah 31:38; Zechariah
    14:10.

  • HANANI God has gratified me, or is gracious. (1.) One of the sons of
    Heman (1 Chronicles 25:4, 25). (2.) A prophet who was sent to rebuke

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