Havilah.
HAV'ILAH. A son of Cush, Gen 10:7. A son of Joktan, Gen 10:29.
Havoth-jair
Hamlets of the enlightener a district in the east of Jordan. (1.) Jair, the son of Manasseh, took some villages of Gilead and called them by this name (Num. 32:41). (2.) Again, it is said that Jair “…
Havothjair
(villages of Jair), certain villages on the east of Jordan, in Gilead or Bashan, which were taken by Jair the son of Manasseh, and called after his name. (Numbers 32:41; 3:14) In the records of Manas…
Hawk,
HAWK, a general name for a well known group of fierce and rapacious birds, unclean by the Levitical law, Lev 11:16; Deut 14:15, but so sacred among the Greeks and Egyptians that to kill one, even uni…
Hay,
HAY, Prov 27:25. We are not to suppose that this word, as used in the Bible, denotes dried grass, as it does with us. The management of grass by the Hebrews as food for cattle was entirely different …
Hazael,
HAZ'AEL, (God sees), an officer in the court of Syria, and subsequently its powerful king. Elijah was commanded to anoint him king but left this duty to Elisha; and so when Hazael was despatched by h…
Hazael, House Of,
HAZAEL, HOUSE OF, either family or palace of Hazael, Am 1:4.
Hazaiah
(whom Jehovah sees), a man of Judah of the family of the Shilonites, or descendants of Shelah. (Nehemiah 11:5)
Hazar-addar
Village of Addar, a place in the southern boundary of Palestine (Num. 34:4), in the desert to the west of Kadesh-barnea. It is called Adar in Josh. 15:3.
Hazar-enan
Village of fountains, a place on the north-east frontier of Palestine (Num. 34:9, 10). Some have identified it with Ayan ed-Dara in the heart of the central chain of Anti-Libanus. More probably, howe…
Hazar-gaddah
Village of fortune, a city on the south border of Judah (Josh. 15:27), midway between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
Hazar-hatticon
Village of the midway, a place near Hamath in the confines of Hauran (Ezek. 47:16), probably on the north brow of Hermon.
Hazar-maveth
Court of death, the third son of Joktan, and a region in Arabia-Felix settled by him (Gen. 10:26; 1 Chr. 1:20). It is probably the modern province of Hadramaut, situated on the Indian Ocean east of t…
Hazar-shual
Village or enclosure of the jackal, a city on the south border of Judah (Josh. 15:28; Neh. 11:27). It has been identified with the ruins of Saweh, half-way between Beersheba and Moladah.
Hazar-susah,
HA'ZAR-SU'SAH, and HA'ZAR-SU'SIM (village of horses), a city of Simeon, in the southern border of Judah. Josh 19:5; 1 Chr 4:31. Wilton believes it was in Wady es-Sauiek, near Gaza, but Conder propose…
Hazaradar
etc. [Hazer]
Hazarenan
imprisoned cloud
Hazargaddah
imprisoned band
Hazarmaveth
(court of death), the third in order of the sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:26) The name is preserved in the Arabic Hadramawt and Hadrumawl, the appellation of a province and an ancient people of southern…
Hazel,
HA'ZEL, Gen 30:37. It is generally supposed that the almond tree is intended in this passage. The original word is thought to be susceptible of this rendering.
Hazelelponi
(shade coming upon me), the sister of the sons of Etam in the genealogies of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:3)
Hazer,
HA'ZER, same as Hazar; used only in composition.
Hazerim
Villages, probably the name of the temporary villages in which the nomad Avites resided (Deut. 2:23).
Hazeroth
Fenced enclosures consisting of “a low wall of stones in which thick bundles of thorny acacia are inserted, the tangled branches and long needle-like spikes forming a perfectly impenetrable hedge aro…
Hazezon-tamar,
HAZ'EZON-TA'MAR, and HAZ'ANON- TA'MAR (felling of palm trees), the old name of En-gedi,Gen 14:7; 2 Chr 20:2; a city as old as the oldest in Syria, the contemporary of Sodom and Gomorrah, and already …
Hazezontamar
and Haz’azon-ta’mar (pruning of palm trees), the ancient name of Engedi. (Genesis 14:7) The name occurs in the records of the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 20:2)
Haziel
(union of God), a Levite in the time of David, of the family of Shi-mei or Shimi, the younger branch of the (Gershonites. (1 Chronicles 23:9) (B.C. 1014.)
Hazo
Vision, one of the sons of Nahor (Gen. 22:22).
Hazor
Enclosed; fortified. (1.) A stronghold of the Canaanites in the mountains north of Lake Merom (Josh. 11:1-5). Jabin the king with his allied tribes here encountered Joshua in a great battle. Joshua g…
Hazor-hadattah
New Hazor, a city in the south of Judah (Josh. 15:25). It is probably identified with the ruins of el-Hazzarah, near Beit Jebrin.