Numbers 14:45

14:45 So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped ¹  down and attacked them ²  as far as Hormah. ³ 

Numbers 21:3

21:3 The Lord listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, ⁴  and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of the place was called ⁵  Hormah.

Joshua 19:4

19:4 Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,

¹ tn Heb “came down.”

² tn The verb used here means “crush by beating,” or “pounded” them. The Greek text used “cut them in pieces.”

³ tn The name “Hormah” means “destruction”; it is from the word that means “ban, devote” for either destruction or temple use.

⁴ tc Smr, Greek, and Syriac add “into his hand.”

⁵ tn In the Hebrew text the verb has no expressed subject, and so here too is made passive. The name “Hormah” is etymologically connected to the verb “utterly destroy,” forming the popular etymology (or paronomasia, a phonetic wordplay capturing the significance of the event).