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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Hormah
     banning; i.e., placing under a "ban," or devoting to utter
     destruction. After the manifestation of God's anger against the
     Israelites, on account of their rebellion and their murmurings
     when the spies returned to the camp at Kadesh, in the wilderness
     of Paran, with an evil report of the land, they quickly repented


     of their conduct, and presumed to go up "to the head of the
     mountain," seeking to enter the Promised Land, but without the
     presence of the Lord, without the ark of the convenant, and
     without Moses. The Amalekites and the Canaanites came down and
     "smote and discomfited them even unto Hormah" (Num. 14:45). This
     place, or perhaps the watch-tower commanding it, was originally
     called Zephath (Judg. 1:17), the modern Sebaiteh. Afterwards
     (Num. 21:1-3) Arad, the king of the Canaanites, at the close of
     the wanderings, when the Israelites were a second time encamped
     at Kadesh, "fought against them, and took some of them
     prisoners." But Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord utterly to
     destroy the cities of the Canaanites; they "banned" them, and
     hence the place was now called Hormah. But this "ban" was not
     fully executed till the time of Joshua, who finally conquered
     the king of this district, so that the ancient name Zephath
     became "Hormah" (Josh. 12:14; Judg. 1:17).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Hormah, devoted or consecrated to God; utter destruction
  

















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