Metheg-ammah
(bridle of the metropolis), a place which David took from the Philistines, apparently in his last war with them. 2Sa 8:1 Ammah may be taken as meaning "mother-city" or "metropolis," comp. 2Sa 20:19 and Metheg-he-Ammah "the bridle of the mother-city" --viz. of Gath, the chief town of the Philistines.
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