{{Infobox Israel village | name = Helam | image = | caption = | imgsize = 100 | hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|חֵילָם}} | founded = | founded_by = | region = ''poss.'' located ≈ 55 km (34 mi){{sfn|Eerdmans|2000|p=571}} | council = | industry = | affiliation = present-day Alma, Israel | population = | popyear = |pushpin_map=Israel northeast |pushpin_mapsize=250 |coordinates = {{coord|33|3|4.32|N|35|29|59.63|E|display=inline,title}} | website = }} '''Helam''' ({{langx|he|חֵילָם / חֵלָאם}},<ref>Strong's [http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H2431&t=KJV '''H2431''' - ''Cheylam'']</ref> ''ḥêlām'';{{sfn|Eerdmans|2000|p=571}} meaning "stronghold", or "place of abundance"{{sfn|Easton|1894|p=321}}) is a Hebrew Bible place name.{{sfn|Easton|1894|p=321, a place north of the Jordan and west of the Euphrates, in Gilead}}{{sfn|Eerdmans|2000|p=571}} According to 2 Samuel 10:15-18, Helam was the site of King David's victory over the Syrians under Hadadezer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Samuel+10&version=KJV|title = Bible Gateway passage: 2 Samuel 10 - King James Version}}</ref> It may be associated with modern Alma, Israel, {{sfn|Eerdmans|2000|p=571, per Philip R. Drey in association with David Noel Freedman}} about 55 km (34 mi) east of the Sea of Galilee.{{sfn|Eerdmans|2000|p=571}}
For Helam/Alema, a place mentioned in 1 Maccabees, see Alma, Syria.<ref name="GRP">{{Cite journal |last=Avi-Yonah |first=Michael |date=1976 |title=Gazetteer of Roman Palestine |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43587090 |journal=Qedem |volume=5 |pages=64 |issn=0333-5844}}</ref>
==See also== * Alma, Israel * Hadadezer bar Rehob * List of biblical places starting with H
==Footnotes== {{reflist|2}}
==References== {{EBD|wstitle=Helam}} * {{cite book|last1=Easton|first1=Matthew George|author-link=Matthew George Easton|title=Easton's Bible Dictionary|date=1894|publisher=T. Nelson|location=Altenmünster|isbn=9783849621865|page=321|edition=Extended Annotated|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KspEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA321}} * {{cite book|last1=Eerdmans|first1=David Noel Freedman|others=Allen C. Myers, associate ed.; Astrid B. Beck, managing ed.|title=Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible|date=2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qRtUqxkB7wkC|page=571|location=Grand Rapids, MI [etc.]|isbn=9789053565032}}
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