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Strong's #2674 - חָצוֹר
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- Hazor = "castle"
- a royal city of northern Palestine allotted to Naphtali
- one of the cities of Judah in the extreme south
- a town north of Jerusalem in which the Benjamites resided after the return from exile
- a site in Arabia
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1 a royal city of northern Canaan Joshua 11:1 ׳יָבִין מֶלֶךְחֿ, compare Joshua 12:19, and Judges 4:2,17; 1 Samuel 12:9; Joshua 11:10 (twice in verse); Joshua 11:11,13; Joshua 19:36; 2 Kings 15:29; חָצֹר 1 Kings 9:15.
2 places in the Negeb:
a. Joshua 15:23.
b. c. Joshua 15:25 וחָצוֺרחֲדַתָּה וּקְרִיּוֺת חֶצְרוֺן הִיא חָצוֺר.
3 חָצוֺר Nehemiah 11:33 a Benjamite town, probably = בַּעַל חָצוֺר q. v.
4מַמְלְכוֺת חָצוֺר אֲשֶׂר הִכָּה נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּו֯ר Jeremiah 49:28, compare Jeremiah 49:30; Jeremiah 49:33, an Arabian locality, see Winer BW Hazor Gf Gie. — ׳עֵין ח Joshua 19:37, see below עַיִן.
חָצוֹר (“village,” “hamlet” [“fence, castle, i.q. Arab. حِصَارُ.”]), [Hazor], pr.n.
(1) of a town in the tribe of Naphtali, fortified by Solomon, Joshua 11:1, 12:19 19:36 Judges 4:2; 1 Kings 9:15; 2 Kings 15:29.
(2) of a town in the tribe of Benjamin, Nehemiah 11:33.
(3) of a district of Arabia, Jeremiah 49:28 [also other places].
[“חָצוֹר חֲדַתָּה (“new castle”), [Hazor Ha-dattah, ] pr.n. of a town in the southern part of the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:25.”]