or Chemosh, the idol or god of the Moabites.

The name of chamos comes from a root which, in Arabic, signifies to make haste; for which reason many believe chamos to be the sun, whose precipitate course might well procure it the name of swift or speedy. Others have confounded chamos with the god Hammon, adored not only in Libya and Egypt, but also in Arabia, Ethiopia, and the Indies. Macrobius shows that Hammon was the sun; and the horns, with which he was represented, denoted his rays. Calmet is of opinion, that the god Hammon, and Apollo Chioneus, mentioned by Strabo and Ammianus Marcellinus, was the very same as chamos or the sun. These deities Chamouni were worshipped in many of the eastern provinces. Some who go upon the resemblance of the Hebrew term chamos, to that of the Greek comos, have believed chamos to signify the god Bacchus the god of drunkenness, according to the signification of the Greek comos. St Jerom, and with him most other interpreters, take Chamos and Peor for the same deity. But it seems that Baal-Peor was the same as Tammuz or Adonis; so that Chamos must be the god whom the heathens call the Sun.