Where was Helam?

Place of abundance, a place on the east of Jordan and west of the Euphrates where David gained a great victory over the Syrian army (2 Sam. 10:16), which was under the command of Shobach. Modern identification: Alma.

Helam is represented in the local geography layer as Alma. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in 2 Samuel 10:16 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 2 verse references collected into the glossary index.