HAZOR-HADATTAH

ha'-zor-ha-dat'-a (Aramaic chatsor chadhattah, "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" (Joshua 15:25). Eusebius and Jerome describe a "New Hazor" to the East of Ascalon, but this is too far North.

New Hazor, a city in the south of Judah (Joshua 15:25). It is probably identified with the ruins of el-Hazzarah, near Beit Jebrin.