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Numbers 34:4, 9, 10

Joshua 15:3, 27-28

Joshua 19:3, 5

1 Chronicles 4:28

Ezekiel 47:17

Ezekiel 48:1

topographically, seems generally employed for the villages of people. As a proper name it appears in the Authorized Version

  • In the plural, Hazerim and Hazeboth, for which see the corresponding entries
  • In the slightly different form of Hazor
  • In composition with other words:
    1. Hazar-addar (village of Addar), a place named as one of the landmarks on the southern boundary of the land promised to Israel (Numbers 34:4) also called Adar (Joshua 15:3)
    2. Hazar-enan (village of fountains), the place at which the northern boundary of the land promised to the children of Israel was to terminate (Numbers 34:9, 10; comp. Ezek 47:17; 48:1)
    3. Hazar-gaddah (village of fortune), one of the towns in the southern district of Judah (Joshua 15:27), named between Moladah and Heshmon.
    4. Hazar-shual (village of jackals), a town in the southern district of Judah, lying between Hazargaddah and Beersheba (Joshua 15:28; 19:3; 1 Chronicles 4:28)
    5. Hazar-susah (village of horses), one of the “cities” allotted to Simeon in the extreme south of the territory of Judah (Joshua 19:5)

Smith's Bible Names Dictionary (1866)

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