HASHMONAH.A station in the journeyings of the Israelites, mentioned only in Num_33:29-30.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
The stage of Israel's journeyings near Mount Hor, next before Moseroth (Num_33:29; Num_20:28; Deu_10:6). Heshmon (Jos_15:27), an "uttermost city of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward," like Kedesh outside the natural frontier of Palestine, in the extreme N. of the desert. At Ain Hasb, N.W. of the Arabah, is a pool still of sweet living water, surrounded by verdure, and with traces of ruins (Robinson, Biblical Research, 2:119).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Hashmo'nah. (fatness). A station of the Israelites, mentioned Num_33:29, as next before Moseroth.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
hash?mō-na (חשׁמנה, ḥashmōnā̄h, ?fatness?): A desert camp of the Israelites between Mithkah and Moseroth (Num_33:29, Num_33:30). See WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Hashmonah
(Heb. Chashmonah', חִשְׁמוֹנָה, fatness; Sept. Α᾿σσεμωνᾶ v.r. Α᾿σελμωνᾶ and Σελμωνᾶ) the thirtieth station of the Israelites during their wandering, situated not far from Mount Hor (Moseroth), it the direction of the desert (Num_33:29-30); apparently near the intersection of wady el- Jerafeh with wady el-Jeib, in the Arabah. SEE EXODE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.