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Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Jdg 1:17) | 3 sn The name Hormah (חָרְמָה, khormah) sounds like the Hebrew verb translated “wipe out” (חָרַם, kharam). |
| (0.87) | (Num 14:45) | 3 tn The name “Hormah” means “destruction”; it is from the word that means “ban, devote” for either destruction or temple use. |
| (0.50) | (Deu 1:44) | 3 sn Hormah is probably Khirbet el-Meshash, 5.5 mi (9 km) west of Arad and 7.5 mi (12 km) SE of Beer Sheba. Its name is a derivative of the verb חָרָם (kharam, “to ban; to exterminate”). See Num 21:3. |
| (0.50) | (Num 21:3) | 2 tn In the Hebrew text the verb has no expressed subject, and so here too is made passive. The name “Hormah” is etymologically connected to the verb “utterly destroy,” forming the popular etymology (or paronomasia, a phonetic wordplay capturing the significance of the event). |
