Hazor (Hebrew: חצור, lit. "courtyard" or "settlement") is the name of several places in the biblical and modern Land of Israel:
Biblical locations:
- Tel Hazor, site of an ancient fortified city in the Upper Galilee, among the most important Caananite towns, and the largest ancient ruin in modern Israel and UNESCO World Heritage Site. For other uses see Israel (disambiguation The Land of Israel ( Hebrew: אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל Eretz Yisrael) is Tel Hazor (תל חצור(also Hatzor is a Tell above the site of ancient Hazor whose archeological remains are the largest and richest known in modern Israel. Canaanites redirects here For the 1940s social and political movement in Israel, see Canaanites (movement. A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a Forest, Mountain, Lake, Desert, Monument, Building, complex
- Hazor, A town in the southern Negev, between Kadesh and Ithan, mentioned in a geographic list. The Negev (נֶגֶב Tiberian vocalization: Néḡeḇ) is the Desert region of southern Israel. This article is about Kadesh in the South of Israel see also Kadesh or Kedesh. [1] The Codex Vaticanus conflates Hazor and Ithnan into a single word in the list, while Codex Alexandrinus completely omits Ithnan from it. The Codex Vaticanus ( The Vatican, Bibl Vat, Vat gr 1209 Gregory-Aland no The Codex Alexandrinus (London British Library, MS Royal 1 D V-VIII Gregory-Aland no Suspected by some archaeologists to be identical with modern El-Jebariyeh.
- Hazor, one of the towns inhabited by the descendants of the Tribe of Benjamin, after their return from Babylonian Captivity. The Tribe of Benjamin ( was one of the Tribes of Israel. At its height the territory it occupied was sandwiched between that of Ephraim to the north and Judah The Babylonian captivity, Babylonian exile, is the name typically given to the deportation and exile of the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to [2] The town, described by the Book of Nehemiah as being located between Ananiah and Ramah, is suspected by some archaeologists to be identical with modern Khirbet Hazzur. The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible, historically regarded as a continuation of the Book of Ezra, and is sometimes called the second book Ananiah, in the Bible, is a town in the tribe of Benjamin between Nob and Hazor (Neh
- Hazor, one of the towns devastated by Nabu-Kudurri-User, described by the Book of Jeremiah as being in the vicinity of Kedar. The Book of Jeremiah, or Jeremiah ( יִרְמְיָהוּ Yirməyāhū in Hebrew) is part of the Hebrew Bible, Judaism [3] The text refers to kingdoms of Hazor, which suggests the possibility that this Hazor was the name of a region in the Arab desert (the land east of the Jordan River). This article is about the Jordan River and its valley in western Asia [4]
- Kerioth-Hezron, a town in the south of the land occupied by the Tribe of Judah, Kerioth;[5] the Revised Standard Version renders it as Hazor-Hadattah. The Tribe of Judah ( was one of the Tribes of Israel. At its height it was the leading tribe of the Kingdom of Judah, and occupied most of the territory of the kingdom Kerioth - cities (Hebrew Kriyot קְרִיּוֹת A town in the south of Judea ( The Revised Standard Version (RSV is an English translation of the Bible published in the mid-20th century Archaeologists suspect the town to be identical to modern Khirbet el-Qaryatein.
Modern-day Israel:
- Hatzor HaGelilit, a town in northern Israel
- Hatzor (kibbutz), a kibbutz in central Israel, also called "Hatzor Ashdod" after the nearby city. Hatzor HaGlilit (חצור הגלילית is a Development town and local council in northern Israel, next to Rosh Pina and near Safed
- Hatzor Airbase, an Israeli Air Force base located next to this kibbutz
References
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