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(3.) Hebrews halmuth, a poetical word for a workman’s hammer, found only in Judges 5:26, where it denotes the mallet with which the pins of the tent of the nomad are driven into the ground.
(4.) Hebrews mappets, rendered “battle-axe” in Jeremiah 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 modelled, and generally a strap or string at the lower end by which it could be grasped with greater firmness.”
•HAMMOLEKETH the queen, the daughter of Machir and sister of Gilead (1 Chronicles 7:17, 18). Abiezer was one of her three children.
•HAMMON warm springs. (1.) A town in the tribe of Asher, near Zidon (Joshua 19:28), identified with ‘Ain Hamul.
(2.) A Levitical city of Naphtali (1 Chronicles 6:76).