HAMMATH hăm’ ăth (חַמַּ֖ת, hot spring). 1. “The father of the house of Rechab” (1 Chron 2:55, KJV HEMATH).

2. A fortified city of Naphtali (Josh 19:35); located at the modern Hamman Tabariyeh, famous for its hot baths, c. two m. S of Tiberias on the W shore of the Sea of Galilee. It is prob. the same as Hammon (1 Chron 6:76) and Hammoth-dor (Josh 21:32), and the Emmaus of Josephus (Jos. Antiq. XVIII. ii. 3; War IV. i. 3).