Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Hamathite is the ancestral name of a Canaanite people descended from Canaan. The page uses a person-style entry because the dataset preserves ethnonyms in genealogical form. First appears in Gen 10:18.1
AI summary: Hamathite matters because the cross references place the name among the Canaanite peoples who fill out the land and region surrounding Israel's later story. Like other ethnonym entries in the table of nations, it expands Genesis into a structured account of neighboring peoples and inherited identities. Taken together, the material presents Hamathite as a Canaanite ethnonym contributing to Scripture's remembered ordering of the nations.1
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.