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Hamathite

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A descendant of Canaan, according to Genesis 10:18 and 1 Chronicles 1:16, inhabiting the Kingdom of Hamath, located in what is now western Syria and northern Lebanon.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

Examples

  • And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

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History

Etymology

From Hamath + -ite.