Humtah

Humtah ("lizard") was a Judean hill country town named in Joshua 15:54 in the catalog of the second hill country district near Hebron: "And Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages." The town appears only in this single boundary list and is uncertain in location. It lay in the immediate vicinity of Hebron, in the cluster of small farming and shepherding settlements that filled the highlands around the patriarchal capital where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had been buried at the cave of Machpelah.