Definition of Hammurabi

1. Noun. Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC).

Exact synonyms: Hammurapi
Generic synonyms: King, Male Monarch, Rex

Definition of Hammurabi

1. Proper noun. The sixth king of Babylon. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hammurabi

Hamman's murmur
Hamman's sign
Hamman's syndrome
Hammarskjold
Hammarsten's reagent
Hammer
Hammers
Hammerschlag's method
Hammerstein
Hammett
Hammond
Hammond's disease
Hammond organ
Hammond organs
Hammourabi
Hammurabi
Hammurapi
Hampshire down
Hampshirite
Hampshirites
Hampton
Hampton's hump
Hampton Roads
Hampton line
Hampton manoeuvre
Hampton technique
Hamsun
Han
Han Chinese

Literary usage of Hammurabi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1904)
"Notes on the hammurabi Monument.1—By DAVID G. LTON, Professor in Harvard ... That hammurabi prepared statues of himself in the round we know from a fragment ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"This conclusion has been admirably vindicated by the Code of hammurabi, where, ... Hence, in all such cases hammurabi decrees that the litigants should ..."

3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1917)
"Notes on the code of hammurabi. (American journal of Semitic languages and ... OBA KELSO, James A. The code of hammurabi and the Book of the Covenant. ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"They were a hereditary body of usages, as is proven among other evidence by the laws of hammurabi (see hammurabi AND His CODE). ..."

5. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1903)
"The history of hammurabi, the king, whose laws were inscribed upon the column ... hammurabi, or Amraphel, was really king of Babylon, and after his contest ..."

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