Numbers 21:3

And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.

And they utterly destroyed them and their cities - х wayachareem (H2763), devoted to destruction; Septuagint, anathematisen.] It is clear that this is the import of the statement, because the overthrow of these doomed cities did not take place until a period considerably later (Joshua 12:14).

Hormah - х Chaarªmaah (H2767), a devoting of a place to utter extinction; Septuagint, anathema

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