their bread; their war
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
LAHMAM (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] Lahmas).A town of Judah (Jos_15:40), possibly mod. el-Lahm, near Beit Jibrîn.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A town in the shephelah or "rolling hills" of Judah (Jos_15:40). From the same root as Bethlehem, "the house of bread." Now El Hamam, six miles S.E. of Ajlan or Eglon, in a wheat-producing region.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Lah'mam. (provisions). A town, in the Shefelah, or lowland district of Judah. Jos_15:40.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
la?mam (לחמם, laḥmām): A town in the Judean Shephelah (Jos_15:40, the Revised Version margin ?Lahmas?) possibly the modern el-Laḥm, 2 1/2 miles South of Beit Jibrı̂n.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Lahmam
(Heb. Lachmas', לִחְמָס, prob. an erroneous reading for Lachmam',
לִחְמָם, their bread, which is read in some MSS., and which the Vulg. and Auth.Vers. follow, Septuag. Λαμάς,Vulg. Lehemam), a city in the plain of Judah, mentioned between Cabbon and Kithlish (Jos_15:40), probably situated among the Philistines west of the Highlands of Judaea. A writer in Fairbairn's Dictionary, s.v., by a series of arguments resting essentially upon the insecure foundation of the mere order of the names in Joshua, seeks to identify Lahmam with the el-Humam mentioned by Smith in the list in Robinson's Researches (iii, Append. p. 119); but of this place there is no other trace save perhaps the name Tell-Imamn on Zimmerman's Map, some six miles to the S.E. of the vicinity of the other associated names, and apparently out of the bounds of the group, if not of the tribe itself. Lahmam is possibly the present Beit-Lehia, a short distance N.E. of Gaza (Robinson, 3:Append. p. 118; Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 115).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.