Baal-hamon

Place Name

Name meaning: "who rules a crowd"

Baal-hamon (meaning place of a multitude or lord who rules a crowd) was a place where Solomon maintained an extensive vineyard, mentioned only in Song of Solomon 8:11. The text says Solomon let out the vineyard to keepers, each of whom was to bring a thousand pieces of silver for its fruit, while the beloved keeps her own vineyard. The location is unknown and is not identified with any other biblical site with confidence.

The name's association with abundance — a multitude or crowd — suits its context as the site of a notably productive vineyard. Some interpreters understand the passage as figurative rather than geographical. In any case, Baal-hamon appears only in this single lyrical context and carries no further narrative significance in the biblical text.