Places of the Bible
Metheg-ammah
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Metheg-ammah, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
- Reign of David · 1054 BC · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Bridle of the mother, a figurative name for a chief city, as in 2 Sam. 8:1, “David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines” (R.V., “took the bridle of the mother-city”); i.e., subdued their capital or strongest city, viz., Gath (1 Chr. 18:1).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 1 verse
- 2 Samuel
- 8:1
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.