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HEBREW: 522 hma 'Ammah
NAVE: Ammah
EBD: Ammah
SMITH: AMMAH
ISBE: AMMAH
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Ammah

In Bible versions:

Ammah: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
a hill near Gibeon

my, or his, people ( --> same as Ammi)
Google Maps: Ammah (31° 52´, 35° 20´)

Hebrew

Strongs #0522: hma 'Ammah

Ammah = "a cubit"

1) a hill near Gibeon

522 'Ammah am-maw'

the same as 520; Ammah, a hill in Palestine:-Ammah.
see HEBREW for 0520

Ammah [EBD]

a cubit, the name of a hill which Joab and Abishai reached as the sun went down, when they were in pursuit of Abner (2 Sam. 2:24). It lay to the east of Gibeon.

Ammah [NAVE]

AMMAH, a mountain, 2 Sam. 2:24.

AMMAH [SMITH]

(head), The hill of, A hill facing Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon, named as the point to which Joab pursued Abner (2 Samuel 2:24)

AMMAH [ISBE]

AMMAH - am'-a ('ammah, "mother" or "beginning"): A hill in the territory of Benjamin (2 Sam 2:24), where Joab and Abishai halted at nightfall in their pursuit of Abner and his forces after their victory over him in the battle of Gibeon. It "lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon"; but the exact location has not been identified. The same Hebrew word appears as the second part of Metheg-ammah in 2 Sam 8:1 the King James Version, but rendered "mother city" in the Revised Version (British and American), probably however not the same place as in 2 Sam 2:24.




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