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Metheg-ammah

also known as: metheg haammah

Hebrew: הָאַמָּ֖ה —meaning: bridle of the mother

This is a figurative name for a chief city, as in 2 Samuel 8:1, “David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Revised King James Version: “took the bridle of the mother-city”); i.e., subdued their capital or strongest city, which is Gath (1 Chronicles 18:1).

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