Hormah

Banning; i.e., placing under a “ban,” or devoting to utter destruction. After the manifestation of God’s anger against the Israelites, on account of their rebellion and their murmurings when the spies returned to the camp at Kadesh, in the wilderness of Paran, with an evil report of the land, they quickly repented of their conduct, and presumed to go up “to the head of the mountain,” seeking to enter the Promised Land, but without the presence of the Lord, without the ark of the convenant, and without Moses. The Amalekites and the Canaanites came down and “smote and discomfited them even unto Hormah” (Num. 14:45). This place, or perhaps the watch-tower commanding it, was originally called Zephath (Judg. 1:17), the modern Sebaiteh. Afterwards (Num. 21:1-3) Arad, the king of the Canaanites, at the close of the wanderings, when the Israelites were a second time encamped at Kadesh, “fought against them, and took some of them prisoners.” But Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord utterly to destroy the cities of the Canaanites; they “banned” them, and hence the place was now called Hormah. But this “ban” was not fully executed till the time of Joshua, who finally conquered the king of this district, so that the ancient name Zephath became “Hormah” (Josh. 12:14; Judg. 1:17).

KJB,ESV = ‘Hormah’

Recorded scripture occurrences (9)

References recorded in the source data; this is not an exhaustive list of mentions.

NUM 14:45: RV NUM 14:45 · LV NUM 14:45 · Read together NUM 14:45

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OET-RV NUM 14:45

45 Then the Amalekim and Kena’anim that lived in that part of the hill country attacked them and killed them as far down as Hormah.

OET-LV NUM 14:45

45 And_ the_ˊAmālēqite[s] and_the_Kənaˊₐnī/(Canaanite)[s] who_dwelt in_country (the)_that _he/it _descended and_they_attacked _them and_they_scattered _them to (the)_Ḩormāh.

NUM 21:3: RV NUM 21:3 · LV NUM 21:3 · Read together NUM 21:3

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OET-RV NUM 21:3

3 Yahweh listened to what they said and enabled them to defeat those Kena’anim (Canaanites), then they dedicated the towns to Yahweh and destroyed them, and they named that area ‘Hormah’ (which means ‘Destruction’).

OET-LV NUM 21:3