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hā´zar (חצר, hÌ£ăcar, construct of חצר, hÌ£aÌ„ceÌ„r, “an enclosure,†“settlement,†or “villageâ€): Is frequently the first element in Hebrew place-names.
1. Hazar-Addar
Hazar-addar (Hebrew hÌ£ăcar 'addaÌ„r), a place on the southern boundary of Judah (), is probably identical with Hazron (), which, in this case, however, is separated from Addar (the King James Version “Adarâ€). It seems to have lain somewhere to the Southwest of Kadesh-barnea.
2. Hazar-Enan
Hazar-enan (Hebrew hÌ£ăcar ‛eÌ„naÌ„n, “village of springsâ€: ‛eÌ„naÌ„n is Aramaic; Once () it is called Enon), a place, unidentified, at the junction of the northern and eastern frontiers of the land promised to Israel ( f; compare ; ). 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-KÌ£aÌ„simı̄yeh to the foot of Hermon, and would locate Hazar-enan at BaÌ„niaÌ„s. The springs there lend fitness to the name; a condition absent from el-HÌ£aÌ„dÌ£r, farther east, suggested by von Kesteren. But there is no certainty.
3. Hazar-Gaddah
Hazar-gaddah (Hebrew hăcar-gaddaÌ„h), a place in the territory of Judah “toward the border of Edom in the South†(, ). Eusebius, Onomasticon (s.v. “Gaddaâ€) 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 BajjakÌ£ farther south (GAP, 185).
4. Hazar-Hatticon
Hazar-hatticon (the Revised Version (British and American) HAZER-HATTICON; Hebrew hÌ£ăceÌ„r ha-tı̄khoÌ„n, “the middle villageâ€), a place named on the ideal border of Israel (). 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 ḥăcarmāweth), the name of a son of Joktan attached to a clan or district in South Arabia (; ). It is represented by the modern Ḥaḍramaut, 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 () (Glaser, Skizze, II, 20, 423ff).
6. Hazar-Shual
Hazar-Shual (Hebrew ḥăcar shū‛āl), a place in the South of Judah () assigned to Simeon (; ). It was reoccupied after the exile (). Sa‛weh on a hill East of Beersheba has been suggested; but there is no certainty.
7. Hazar-Susah
Hazar-susah (Hebrew ḥăcar ṣūṣāh, ), Hazar-susim (Hebrew ḥăcar ṣūṣı̄m, ). 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.