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HazorAid to Bible Understanding
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When they had finished, they looked at us with astonishment, as if we were magicians or fortunetellers. For there, before us, was the gate whose outline we had marked, a replica of the Megiddo gate. This proved not only that both gates had been built by Solomon but that both had followed a single master plan.”
Over two hundred years after Solomon’s death, during the reign of Israelite King Pekah, the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III conquered Hazor and carried its inhabitants into exile.—2 Ki. 15:29.
2. A Judean city in the Negeb, perhaps to be linked with el-Jebariyeh, located some fifteen miles (24 kilometers) E-NE of the suggested site of Kadesh-barnea (likely the same as Kedesh).—Josh. 15:21, 23
3. Another name for Kerioth-hezron, a town of Judah that has generally been identified with Khirbet el-Qaryatein located about 12.5 miles (20 kilometers) S of Hebron.—Josh. 15:21, 25.
4. A town located in the territory of Benjamin. (Neh. 11:31, 33) El-Burj, situated about four miles (6.4 kilometers) NW of Jerusalem, has been suggested as a probable site. The name “Hazor” is still preserved in nearby Khirbet Hazzur.
5. A region in the Arabian Desert E of the Jordan mentioned in the prophecy of Jeremiah as being due for despoiling by King Nebuchadrezzar (Nebuchadnezzar) of Babylon.—Jer. 49:28-33.
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Hazor-hadattahAid to Bible Understanding
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HAZOR-HADATTAH
(Haʹzor-ha·datʹtah).
A city in the southern part of Judah. (Josh. 15:21, 25) Its exact location is not known. Some geographers, however, tentatively suggest it may be modern el-Hudeira, about twenty-two miles (35.4 kilometers) E-NE of Beer-sheba.
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HazzelelponiAid to Bible Understanding
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HAZZELELPONI
(Haz·ze·lel·poʹni) [give shade, you who are turning toward me].
Probably the daughter of the “father of Etam”; the sister of Jezreel, Ishma and Idbash.—1 Chron. 4:1, 3; see ETAM No. 3.
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HeʼAid to Bible Understanding
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HEʼ
[====].
The fifth letter in the Hebrew alphabet, and, outside the Hebrew Scriptures, representing five when used as a number. The meaning of the name is “window.”
In speaking, heʼ has a guttural sound somewhere between the softer ʼaʹleph and the harsher hhehth. It thus corresponds generally to the English “h,” and is similar to the sound of “h” in the word “behind.” In the Hebrew, it appears at the beginning of each verse of Psalm 119:33-40. The letters heʼ [====] and hhehth [====] are very similar in form.
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HeadAid to Bible Understanding
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HEAD
[Heb., roʹsh; Gr., ke·pha·leʹ].
Due to its superior position at the top of the human body and especially as the location of the mind and the senses of sight, hearing, smell and taste, the head figures prominently in the Bible in both a literal and a figurative sense.
The book of Ecclesiastes contains a metaphorical description of the effects of old age, terminating in death. (Eccl. 12:1-7) The ‘crushing of the golden bowl,’ if applying to some part of the body, may describe the breaking down at death of the brain and its functions in the bowllike cranium of the head. Or it may apply to the body, like a vessel holding the golden content of life. Death or destruction are represented by the expression ‘breaking the head’ or ‘wounding’ the head. (Ps. 68:21; 74:13, 14) The Bible’s first prophecy (Gen. 3:15) states that the ‘seed of the woman,’ after himself suffering a bruising of the heel, will bruise the serpent’s head. In fulfillment, other texts show that the great Serpent, Satan the Devil, is to be put into a deathlike condition in the abyss for a thousand years, and shortly thereafter to be annihilated forever in the “lake of fire,” the “second death.”—Rev. 20:1-3, 7, 10, 14; 12:9.
Expressions concerning the literal head are usually connected with some figurative or representative meaning. Pharaoh fulfilled Joseph’s interpretation of the dream of the chief cupbearer by ‘lifting up his head’ prominently among his servants, restoring him to his former office. But Pharaoh ‘lifted up [the] head from off’ his chief baker, putting him to death. (Gen. 40:13, 19-22) Among some of the nations, soldiers were buried with their swords under their heads, that is, with military honors. (Ezek. 32:27) Jesus Christ’s having “nowhere to lay down his head” meant he had no residence that he could call his own.—Matt. 8:20.
BLESSING, ANOINTING, SWEARING
The head was the member of the body on which blessings were placed. (Gen. 48:13-20; 49:26) The priests and others in whose behalf certain sacrifices were made laid their hands on the head of the animal in acknowledgment that the sacrifice was for them. (Lev. 1:2-4; 8:14; Num. 8:12) Anointing oil was poured on the head. (Lev. 8:12; Ps. 133:2) In his Sermon on the Mount Jesus counseled to ‘grease the head’ when fasting, so as to appear well groomed and not make a sanctimonious show of self-denial for public acclaim. (Matt. 6:17, 18) Greasing the head of a guest with oil came to be one of the essential marks of hospitality. (Luke 7:46) Dust, earth or ashes put on the head signified distress, mourning, or humiliation. (Josh. 7:6; 1 Sam. 4:12; 2 Sam. 13:19) The psalmist, in recounting the testings and hardships on God’s people, says that men had ridden over
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