darkened; covered; his people
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
UMMAH.An Asherite city (Jos_19:30), probably a slip, owing to resemblance of Heb. letters m and k, for Acco (Ptolemais).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A city of Asher's allotment (Jos_19:30). Now Almu, according to Thomson, in the highlands on the coast.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Um'mah. (union). One of the cities of the allotment of Asher. In Jos_10:30 only. Probably 'Alma, in the highlands of the coast, about five miles east-northeast of Ras en-Nakhura.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
um?a (עמּה, ‛ummāh; Ἀρχάβ, Archób, Ἀμμά, Ammá): One of the cities allotted to the tribe of Asher (Jos_19:30). By a slight emendation of the text it would read Acco, the name of the place subsequently known as Ptolemais, the modern ‛Akkā. This emendation is generally adopted by scholars, although it is at best a conjecture. No other identification is yet possible.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Ummah', עֻמָּה, union, as often; Sept. Α᾿μμά v.r. Α᾿ρχώβ or Α᾿ρχόβ,Vulg. Almma), a town of the tribe of Asher, mentioned between Achzib and Aphek (Jos_19:30). Its site was evidently unknown to Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s.v. Amma). Dr. Thomson suggests (Bibliotheca Sacra, 1855,' p. 822) that it may be the modern village Aolam, situated on the coast about five miles E.N.E. of Ras en-Nakurahi and described by him as a large ruin with excellent water and fig- trees.(Land and Book, 2, 156). The Kefr Ammieih suggested by Keil (Comment. ad loc.) is quite beyond the boundaries of the tribe.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.