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# חֶצְרוֹן

Biblical Hebrew

**Hezron** — used 2 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

Hezron [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5e6_5b0_5e8_5d5_5b9_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶצְרוֹן: n.pr.loc. pers. n.pr.loc. n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5e6_5b0_5e8_5d5_5b9_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. et pers. (cf. Sab. חצֿרן n.pr.loc. vel. trib. HalNo. 651 DHMZMG 1883, 15)— n.pr.loc. 𝔊 Ασωρων, Ασερων, Εσρωμ: חֶצְרוֹן Jos 15:3 place in extreme south of Judah, + אַדָּ֫רָה = חֲצַר־אַדָּר (q.v.) Nu 34:4. קְרִיּוֹת חֶצְרוֹן הִיא חָצוֹר Jos 15:25 another town of Judah in south. n.pr.m. 𝔊 Ασρωμ(ν), Εσρων, etc.: חֶצְרֹן son of Reuben Gn 46:9; Ex 6:14; Nu 26:6 = חֶצְרוֹן 1 Ch 5:3. son of Pereṣ and grandson of Judah Gn 46:12; Nu 26:21 = חֶצְרוֹן Ru 4:18, 19; 1 Ch 2:5, 9, 18, 21, 24(×2), 25; 4:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hezron (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.25/#tree)

וְחָצ֤וֹר ׀ חֲדַתָּה֙ ׀ חָצ֤וֹר ׀ חֲדַתָּה֙ וּקְרִיּ֔וֹת חֶצְר֖וֹן הִ֥יא חָצֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and Hazor Hadattah and Kerioth Hezron that \[is\].Hazor

*JPS 1917:* and Hazor, and Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron — the same is Hazor;

[Joshua 15:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.3/#tree)

וְ֠יָצָא אֶל־מִנֶּ֜גֶב לְמַעֲלֵ֤ה עַקְרַבִּים֙ וְעָ֣בַר צִ֔נָה וְעָלָ֥ה מִנֶּ֖גֶב לְקָדֵ֣שׁ בַּרְנֵ֑עַ קָדֵ֣שׁ בַּרְנֵ֑עַ וְעָבַ֤ר חֶצְרוֹן֙ וְעָלָ֣ה אַדָּ֔רָה וְנָסַ֖ב הַקַּרְקָֽעָה׃

*Word for word:* and it.goes.out to from.\[the\] south of.\[the\] ascent of.scorpions and it.passes.on to Zin and it.goes.up from.\[the\] south of Kadesh Barnea and it.passes.on Hezron and it.goes.up to Addar and it.turns to (the) Karka

*JPS 1917:* And it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh-barnea, and passed along by Hezron, and went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5e6_5b0_5e8_5d5_5b9_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5e6_5b0_5e8_5d5_5b9_5df/): 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).