Strong's #4965: Metheg ha-'Ammah (pronounced meh'-theg haw-am-maw')

from 4964 and 520 with the art. interposed; bit of the metropolis; Metheg-ha-Ammah, an epithet of Gath:--Metheg-ammah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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metheg hâ̇'ammâh

1) mother city

1a) bridle of the mother city (i.e. control or authority of)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H4964 and H520 with the art. interposed

Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

 

2 Samuel 8:1: "them: and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines."