Hammath
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Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Warm springs, one of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali (). 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”).
Smith’s Bible Dictionary
(warm springs), one of the fortified cities in the territory allotted to Naphtali. () It was near Tiberias, one mile distant, and had its name Chammath, “hot baths,” because it contained those of Tiberias. In the list of Levitical cities given out of Naphtali, () the name of this place seems to be given as HAMMOTH-DOR.
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