{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/ebd/ebd161.htm","path":"bib/ebd/ebd161.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/ebd/ebd161.htm","text":"Hammer (1.) Heb. pattish , used by gold-beaters (Isa 41:7) and by quarrymen (Jer 23:29). Metaphorically of Babylon (Jer 50:23) or Nebuchadnezzar. (2.) Heb. makabah , a stone-cutter's mallet (Kg1 6:7), or of any workman (Jdg 4:21; Isa 44:12). (3.) Heb. halmuth , a poetical word for a workman's hammer, found only in Jdg 5:26, where it denotes the mallet with which the pins of the tent of the nomad are driven into the ground. (4.) Heb. mappets , rendered \"battle-ax\" in Jer 51:20. This was properly a \"mace,\" which is thus described by Rawlinson: \"The Assyrian mace was a short, thin weapon, and must either have been made of a very tough wood or (and this is more probable) of metal. It had an ornamented head, which was sometimes very beautifully modeled, and generally a strap or string at the lower end by which it could be grasped with greater firmness.\"\nHammoleketh The queen, the daughter of Machir and sister of Gilead (Ch1 7:17, Ch1 7:18). Abiezer was one of her three children.\nHammon Warm springs. (1.) A town in the tribe of Asher, near Zidon (Jos 19:28), identified with 'Ain Hamul . (2.) A Levitical city of Naphtali (Ch1 6:76).\nHammoth-dor Warm springs, a Levitical city of Naphtali (Jos 21:32); probably Hammath in Jos 19:35.\nHamor See BAAL-HAMON.\nHamonah Multitude, a name figuratively assigned to the place in which the slaughter and burial of the forces of Gog were to take place (Eze 39:16).\nHamon-gog Multitude of Gog, the name of the valley in which the slaughtered forces of Gog are to be buried (Eze 39:11, Eze 39:15), \"the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea.\"\nHamon He-ass, a Hivite from whom Jacob purchased the plot of ground in which Joseph was afterwards buried (Gen 33:19). He is called \"Emmor\" in Act 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 (Gen 34:20). Hamor and Shechem were also slain (Gen 34:26).\nHamul Spared, one of the sons of Pharez, son of Judah (Ch1 2:5). His descendants are called Hamulites (Num 26:21).\nHamutal Kinsman of the dew, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, wife of king Josiah, and mother of king Jehoahaz (Kg2 23:31), also of king Zedekiah (Kg2 24:18).","title":"Easton's Bible Dictionary","type":"page"}