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# חָצוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2674

**Hazor** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hazor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2674/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָצוֹר: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2674/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (LagBN 47 f.)—𝔊 Ασωρ, etc.; a royal city of northern Canaan Jos 11:1 יָבִין מֶלֶךְ־ח׳, cf. 12:19, and Ju 4:2, 17; 1 S 12:9; Jos 11:10(×2), 11, 13; 19:36; 2 K 15:29; חָצֹר 1 K 9:15. places in the Negeb: Jos 15:23. Jos 15:25 וחָצוֹר חֲדַתָּה וּקְרִיּוֹת חֶצְרוֹן הִיא חָצוֹר. חָצוֹר Ne 11:33 a Benjamite town, prob. = בַּעַל חָצוֹר q.v. מַמְלְכוֹת חָצוֹר אֲשֶׁר הִכָּה נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּו֯ר Je 49:28, cf. v 30, 33, an Arabian locality, v. WinerRW Hazor Gf Gie.—עֵין ח׳ Jos 19:37, v. sub עַיִן.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hazor (11); of Hazor (6); \[is\] Hazor (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 11:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.33/#tree)

חָצ֥וֹר ׀ רָמָ֖ה גִּתָּֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* Hazor Ramah Gittaim

*JPS 1917:* Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim;

[Joshua 12:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.19/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ מָדוֹן֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ חָצ֖וֹר אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Madon one the.king of.Hazor one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2674.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2674/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).