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חָצוֹר

cha.tsorHazor
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place18 occurrences7 books17 verses
This name belongs to 5 different places in the Bible:
  • Hazor: Region in Arabia, possibly Ituraea, threatened by Nebuchadnezzar
  • Hazor: Major Canaanite city conquered by Joshua
  • Hazor: A town in the southland of Judah
  • Hazor: Town in the Negev region of Judah
  • Hazor: Town resettled by Benjamites after the Babylonian exile

Definition

a collective form of H2691; village; Chatsor, the name (thus simply) of two places in Palestine and of one in Arabia
Traditional renderings: Hazor.

Glossary entries

Hazor Hezron (Place)

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

18 total
  1. Joshua 11:1חָצ֑וֹר · of Hazor
    Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;
  2. Joshua 11:10 (2×)חָצ֔וֹר · Hazor; חָצ֣וֹר · Hazor
    At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword, because Hazor was formerly the head of all these kingdoms.
  3. Joshua 11:11חָצ֖וֹר · Hazor itself
    The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the sword, devoting them to destruction. Nothing that breathed remained, and Joshua burned down Hazor itself.
  4. Joshua 11:13חָצ֥וֹר · Hazor
    Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.
  5. Joshua 12:19חָצ֖וֹר · of Hazor
    …the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
  6. Joshua 15:23וְחָצ֖וֹר · Hazor
    Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,
  7. Joshua 15:25חָצֽוֹר׃ · Hazor
    Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor),
  8. Joshua 19:36וְחָצֽוֹר׃ · Hazor
    Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
  9. Judges 4:2בְּחָצ֑וֹר · in Hazor
    So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
  10. Judges 4:17חָצ֔וֹר · of Hazor
    Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
  11. 1 Samuel 12:9חָצ֜וֹר · of Hazor
    But they forgot the LORD their God, and He sold them into the hand of Sisera the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.
  12. 1 Kings 9:15חָצֹ֥ר · Hazor
    This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
  13. 2 Kings 15:29חָצ֤וֹר · Hazor
    In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.
  14. Nehemiah 11:33חָצ֥וֹר׀ · Hazor
    Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
  15. Jeremiah 49:28חָצ֗וֹר · of Hazor
    Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says: “Rise up, advance against Kedar, and destroy the people of the east!
  16. Jeremiah 49:30חָצ֖וֹר · of Hazor
    Run! Escape quickly! Lie low, O residents of Hazor,” declares the LORD, “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has drawn up a plan against you; he has devised a strategy against you.
  17. Jeremiah 49:33חָצ֜וֹר · Hazor
    “Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”