Lexical Definition

‎חָצוֹר‎ Châtsôwr (khaw-tsore') Hazor ^N:N--L
a collective form of ‎חָצֵר‎; village

Hazor.

• § Hazor = "castle"
• Chatsor, the name (thus simply) of two places in Palestine and of one in Arabia

1) a royal city of northern Palestine allotted to Naphtali
2) one of the cities of Judah in the extreme south
3) a town north of Jerusalem in which the Benjamites resided after the return from exile
4) a site in Arabia

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎חָצוֺר‎, ‎חָצֹר‎ proper name, of a location (Lag^{BN 47 f.}) — ᵐ5 Ασωρ, etc.;

1. a royal city of northern Canaan Josh 11:1 ‎׳‎‎יָבִין מֶלֶךְחֿ‎, compare Josh 12:19, and Judg 4:2; Judg 4:17; 1Sam 12:9; Josh 11:10 (twice in verse); Josh 11:11; Josh 11:13; Josh 19:36; 2Kgs 15:29 ‎חָצֹר‎ 1Kgs 9:15.

2. places in the Negeb:
a. Josh 15:23. b. c. Josh 15:25 ‎וחָצוֺר‎ ‎חֲדַתָּה וּקְרִיּוֺת חֶצְרוֺן הִיא חָצוֺר‎.

3. ‎חָצוֺר‎ Neh 11:33 a Benjamite town, probably = ‎בַּעַל חָצוֺר‎ q. v.

4. ‎מַמְלְכוֺת חָצוֺר אֲשֶׂר הִכָּה נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּו֯ר‎ Jer 49:28, compare vJer 49:30 vJer 49:33, an Arabian locality, see Winer^BW Hazor Gf Gie. — ‎׳‎‎עֵין ח‎ Josh 19:37, see below ‎עַיִן‎.

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