Bible Dictionary · H
Hammath
Warm springs, one of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali (Josh 19:35). It is identified with the warm baths (the heat of the water ranging from 136 degrees to 144 degrees) still found on the shore a little to the south of Tiberias under the name of Hummam Tabariyeh (“Bath of Tiberias”).
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Joshua 19:35 And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
