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HORMAH hor'-ma (chormah): A city first mentioned in connection with the defeat of the Israelites by the Amalekites and the Canaanites, when, after the ten spies who brought an evil report of the land had died of plague, the people persisted, against the will of Moses, in going "up unto the place which Yahweh hath promised" (Nu 14:45; Dt 1:44). after the injury done them by the king of Arad, Israel took the city, utterly destroyed it, and called it Hormah, i,e. "accursed" (Nu 21:3). To this event probably the reference is in Jdg 1:17; where Judah and Simeon are credited with the work. In Josh 12:14 it is named between Geder and Arad; in Josh 15:30 between Chesil and Ziklag, among the uttermost cities toward the border of Edom in the South; and in Josh 19:4 between Bethul and Ziklag (compare 1 Ch 4:30). To it David sent a share of the spoil taken from the Amalekites who had raided Ziklag (1 Sam 30:30). The city must have lain not far from Kadesh, probably to the Northeast. No name resembling Hormah has been recovered in that district. The ancient name was Zephath (Jdg 1:17). It is not unlikely that in popular use this name outlived Hormah: and in some form it may survive to this day. In that case it may be represented by the modern ec-Cabaita between el-Khalaca in the North and `Ain Qadis in the South, about 23 miles from the latter. If we may identify Ziklag with `Asluj, about 14 miles North of ec-Cabaita, the probability is heightened. Robinson (BR, III, 150) compares the name Zephath with that of Naqb ec-Cafa, to the North of Wady el-Fiqrah; but this appears to be too far--about 40 miles--from Kadesh. W. Ewing |
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Definition for 'HORMAH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". bible-history.com - ISBE; 1915.
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