Hazer

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

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

  1. In the plural, HAZERIM and HAZEBOTH, for which see below.
  2. In the slightly different form of HAZOR.
  3. In composition with other words:
  4. 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) ADAR (Joshua 15:3)
  5. 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
  6. HAZAB GADDAH (village of fortune), one of the towns in the southern district of Judah, (Joshua 15:27) named between Moladah and Heshmon.
  7. HAZAR-SHUAL (village of jackals), a town in the southern district of Judah, lying between Hazar-gaddah and Beersheba. (Joshua 15:28; 19:3; 1 Chronicles 4:28)
  8. HAZAR-SUSAH (village of horses), one of the "cities" allotted to Simeon in the extreme south of the territory of Judah. (Joshua 19:5)
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