the Third Week after Easter
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #2674 - חָצוֹר
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- 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
- Book
- Word
did not use
this Strong's Number
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.”]
