Hadadrimmon
is, according to the ordinary interpretation of (12:11) a place in the valley of Megiddo (a part of the plain of Esdraelon, six miles from Mount Carmel and eleven from Nazareth), where a national lam…
Hadar
Adod, brave(?). (1.) A son of Ishmael (Gen. 25:15); in 1 Chr. 1:30 written Hadad. (2.) One of the Edomitish kings (Gen. 36:39) about the time of Saul. Called also Hadad (1 Chr. 1:50, 51). It is proba…
Hadarezer.
HADARE'ZER. See Hadadezer.
Hadashah,
HAD'ASHAH, or HADA'SHAH (new), a town in the plain of Judah, Josh 15:37; probably the Adasa of the Maccabaean history, and corresponding well in name and position to modern Abdas.
Hadassah
Myrtle, the Jewish name of Esther (q.v.), Esther 2:7.
Hadattah
New, one of the towns in the extreme south of Judah (Josh. 15:25).
Hades
That which is out of sight, a Greek word used to denote the state or place of the dead. All the dead alike go into this place. To be buried, to go down to the grave, to descend into hades, are equiva…
Hadid
Pointed, a place in the tribe of Benjamin near Lydda, or Lod, and Ono (Ezra 2:33; Neh. 7:37). It is identified with the modern el-Haditheh, 3 miles east of Lydda.
Hadlai
Resting, an Ephraimite; the father of Amasa, mentioned in 2 Chr. 28:12.
Hadoram
Is exalted. (1.) The son of Tou, king of Hamath, sent by his father to congratulate David on his victory over Hadarezer, king of Syria (1 Chr. 18:10; called Joram 2 Sam. 8:10). (2.) The fifth son of …
Hadrach
The name of a country (Zech. 9:1) which cannot be identified. Rawlinson would identify it with Edessa. He mentions that in the Assyrian inscriptions it is recorded that “Shalmanezer III. made two exp…
Hadrach, Land Of
HA'DRACH, LAND OF (perhaps enclosure), a country of Syria, Zech 9:1-2, and conjectured to be the region about Damascus, including, perhaps, all of Coelo-Syria; or it may refer to the region around Ha…
Haemorrhoids
Or Emerods, bleeding piles known to the ancient Romans as mariscae, but more probably malignant boils of an infectious and fatal character. With this loathsome and infectious disease the men of Ashdo…
Haft
A handle as of a dagger (Judg. 3:22).
Haga Bah
under which it is found in the parallel list of (Ezra 2:45)
Hagab
(locust). Bene-Hagab were among the Nethinim who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:46) (B.C. before 536.)
Hagaba
(locust). Bene Hagaba were among the Nethinim who came back from captivity with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 7:48) The name is slightly different in form from
Hagar
Flight, or, according to others, stranger, an Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid (Gen. 16:1; 21:9, 10), whom she gave to Abraham (q.v.) as a secondary wife (16:2). When she was about to become a mother she f…
Hagarene
Or Hagarite. (1.) One of David’s mighty men (1 Chr. 11:38), the son of a foreigner. (2.) Used of Jaziz (1 Chr. 27:31), who was over David’s flocks. “A Hagarite had charge of David’s flocks, and an Is…
Hagarenes
HAGARENES', or HA'GARITES (Flight), a people dwelling east of the Jordan. 1 Chr 5:10, 1 Chr 5:19-20; 1 Chr 27:31. They seem to be distinguished from the Ishmaelites, Ps 83, but are usually regarded a…
Hagarenes, Hagarites
(named after Hagar), a people dwelling to the east of Palestine, with whom the tribes of Reuben made war in the time of Saul. (1 Chronicles 5:10,18-20) The same people, as confederate against Israel,…
Hagerite, The
Jaziz the Hagerite, i.e. the descendant of Hagar, had the charge of David’s sheep. (1 Chronicles 27:31)
Haggai
Festive, one of the twelve so-called minor prophets. He was the first of the three (Zechariah, his contemporary, and Malachi, who was about one hundred years later, being the other two) whose ministr…
Haggai, Book Of
Consists of two brief, comprehensive chapters. The object of the prophet was generally to urge the people to proceed with the rebuilding of the temple. Chapter first comprehends the first address (2-…
Haggai, Prophecy Of
The style of Haggai is generally tame and prosaic, though at times it rises to the dignity of severe invective when the prophet rebukes his countrymen for their selfish indolence and neglect of God’s…
Haggeri
(wanderer) was one of the mighty men of David’s guard, according to (1 Chronicles 11:38) The parallel passage— (2 Samuel 23:36)—has “Bani the Gadite,” which is probably the correct reading. (B.C. 104…
Haggi
(festive), second son of Gad. (Genesis 46:16; Numbers 26:15)
Haggiah
(festival of Jehovah), a Merarite Levite. (1 Chronicles 6:30)
Haggites, The
a Gadite family sprung from Haggi. (Numbers 26:15)
Haggith
Festive; the dancer, a wife of David and the mother of Adonijah (2 Sam. 3:4; 1 Kings 1:5, 11; 2:13; 1 Chr. 3:2), who, like Absalom, was famed for his beauty.