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HAMMATH (‘hot spring’).—1. ‘Father of the house of Rechab’ (1Ch_2:55). 2. One of the ‘fenced’ cities of Naphtali (Jos_19:35), probably the same as Hammon of 1Ch_6:76 and Hammoth-dor of Jos_21:32. It is doubtless the Hamata of the Talmud, the Emmaus or Ammathus of Jos. [Note: Josephus.] (Ant. XVIII. ii. 3), and the modern Hammâm, 35 minutes’ walk S. of Tiberias, famous for its hot baths.