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haz´a-zan-tā´mar (חצצן תּמר, hÌ£acăcoÌ„n taÌ„maÌ„r; the King James Version Hazezon Tamar): “Hazazon of the palm trees,†mentioned () as a place of the Amorites, conquered, together with En-mishpat and the country of the Amalekites, by Chedorlaomer; in it is identified with EN-GEDI (which see); and if so, it must have been its older name. If this identification be accepted, then Hazazon may survive in the name WaÌ„dy HusaÌ„sah, Northwest of ‛Ain Jidy. Another suggestion, which certainly meets the needs of the narrative better, is that Hazazon-tamar is the Thamara of Eusebius, Onomasticon (85 3; 210 86), the ΘαμαÏω, ThamaroÌ„, of Ptol. xvi.3. The ruin Kurnub, 20 miles West-Southwest of the South end of the Dead Sea - on the road from Hebron to Elath - is supposed to mark this site.