International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Hazor-Hadattah

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Hazor-Hadattah


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hā´zor-ha-dat´a (Aramaic ḥācōr ḥădhattāh, “New Hazor”): “An Aramaic adjective, however, in this region is so strange that the reading must be questioned” (Di). One of the “uttermost cities ... of Judah toward the border of Edom” (). Eusebius and Jerome describe a “New Hazor” to the East of Ascalon, but this is too far North.