Bible Dictionary

Azal

(Zech. 14:5) should perhaps be rendered “very near” = “the way of escape shall be made easy.” If a proper name, it may denote some place near the western extremity of the valley here spoken of near J…

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

” If a proper name, it may denote some place near the western extremity of the valley here spoken of near Jerusalem.

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

a name only occurring in (Zechariah 14:5) It is mentioned as the limit to which the ravine of the Mount of Olives will extend when “Jehovah shall go forth to fight.”

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

A'ZAL. Zech 14:5. As the passage reads in the margin, Azal is not a proper name; but if a place at all, it was on or near Mount Olivet.