Hazar
Hazar
(also HAZOR) is frequently prefixed to geographical names, in order to indicate their dependence as villages (, chatser’, a hamlet; SEE VILLAGE) upon some town or other noted spot, or in order to distinguish them from it; e.g. those following. The word Bazar, when joined to places situated in the desert or on the outskirts of the inhabited country, as it frequently is, probably denoted a piece of ground surrounded by a rude but strong fence, where tents could be pitched, and cattle kept in safety from marauders. Such places are very common at the present day in the outlying districts of Palestine. In other cases Hazar may denote a castle or fortified town’ SEE HAZER.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Hazar
All the compounds of HAZER were in the wilderness or its borders. Hazer is the “court” or quadrangle of a palace; and applies to the villages of rovers, semi-permanent collections of dwellings, such as still exist, rough stone walls being covered with tent cloths, holding thus a middle place between the tent and the town.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Hazar
hazar (, hacar, construct of , hacer, an enclosure, settlement, or village): Is frequently the first element in Hebrew place-names.
1. Hazar-Addar
Hazar-addar (Hebrew hacar ‘addar), a place on the southern boundary of Judah (Num 34:4), is probably identical with Hazron (Jos 15:3), which, in this case, however, is separated from Addar (the King James Version Adar). It seems to have lain somewhere to the Southwest of Kadesh-barnea.
2. Hazar-Enan
Hazar-enan (Hebrew hacar enan, village of springs: enan is Aramaic; Once (Eze 47:17) it is called Enon), a place, unidentified, at the junction of the northern and eastern frontiers of the land promised to Israel (Num 34:9 f; compare Eze 47:17; Eze 48:1). To identify it with the sources of the Orontes seems to leave too great a gap between this and the places named to the South. Buhl (GAP, 66 f) would draw the northern boundary from Nahr el-Kasimyeh to the foot of Hermon, and would locate Hazar-enan at Banias. The springs there lend fitness to the name; a condition absent from el-Hadr, farther east, suggested by von Kesteren. But there is no certainty.
3. Hazar-Gaddah
Hazar-gaddah (Hebrew hacar-gaddah), a place in the territory of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South (Jos 15:21, Jos 15:27). Eusebius, Onomasticon (s.v. Gadda) places it in the uttermost parts of the Daroma, overlooking the Dead Sea. This might point to the site of Masada, or to the remarkable ruins of Umm Bajjak farther south (GAP, 185).
4. Hazar-Hatticon
Hazar-hatticon (the Revised Version (British and American) HAZER-HATTICON; Hebrew hacer ha-tkhon, the middle village), a place named on the ideal border of Israel (Eze 47:16). The context shows that it is identical with Hazar-enan, for which this is apparently another name. Possibly, however, it is due to a scribal error.
5. Hazarmaveth
Hazarmaveth (Hebrew hacarmaweth), the name of a son of Joktan attached to a clan or district in South Arabia (Gen 10:26; 1Ch 1:20). It is represented by the modern Hadramaut, a broad and fruitful valley running nearly parallel with the coast for about 100 miles, north of el-Yemen. The ruins and inscriptions found by Glaser show that it was once the home of a great civilization, the capital being Sabata (Gen 10:7) (Glaser, Skizze, II, 20, 423ff).
6. Hazar-Shual
Hazar-Shual (Hebrew hacar shual), a place in the South of Judah (Jos 15:28) assigned to Simeon (Jos 19:3; 1Ch 4:28). It was reoccupied after the exile (Neh 11:27). Saweh on a hill East of Beersheba has been suggested; but there is no certainty.
7. Hazar-Susah
Hazar-susah (Hebrew hacar susah, Jos 19:5), Hazar-susim (Hebrew hacar susm, 1Ch 4:31). As it stands, the name means station of a mare or of horses, and it occurs along with Beth-marcaboth, place of chariots, which might suggest depots for trade in chariots and horses. The sites have not been identified.