Methegammah
Methegammah
[Meth’eg-am’mah]
Place taken from the Philistines. 2Sa 8:1. The corresponding account in 1Ch 18:1 has ‘Gath and her towns’ (lit. daughters). The signification of the name in Samuel is much disputed. Gesenius and Frst interpret it ‘bridle of the mother-city.’ This would well agree with ‘Gath and her daughter towns.’
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Methegammah
Me’theg-am’mah. (bridle of the metropolis). A place, which David took from the Philistines, apparently, in his last war with them. 2Sa 8:1. Ammah may be taken as meaning “mother-city” or “metropolis”, compare 2Sa 20:19, and Metheg-he-Ammah may mean “the bridle of the mother-city” — namely, of Gath, the chief town of the Philistines.