Numbers 21:3

the name of the place was called Hormah In view of the expression -destroyed them and their cities," Hormah would seem to be a district and not a town; and perhaps it is so in Numbers 14:45 (-the Hormah") and Dt. 1:441 [Note: This is the more probable if we read -from Seir" with LXX., Syr., Vulg.]. But in other passages Hormah is a city; cf. Joshua 12:14; Joshua 15:30; Jos 19:4, 1 Samuel 30:30; 1 Chronicles 4:30; and in Judges 1:17 it is said that its former name was Ẓephath.