Strong H2674H2674Gחָצוֹר
Hazor
One of the 5 senses of Strong H2674
- Transliteration
- châtsôr
- Pronunciation
- khaw-tsore'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Hazor was a major Canaanite city, whose king Jabin led a coalition against Israel; it was captured and destroyed by Joshua (Josh 11:1,10-11,13), later oppressing Israel before being defeated by Deborah and Barak (Judg 4:2,17).
Meaning of the name
Hazor = "castle"
General definition
A collective form of H2691; village;
{Chatsor} the name (thus simply) of two places in Palestine and of one in Arabia: - Hazor.
{Chatsor} the name (thus simply) of two places in Palestine and of one in Arabia: - Hazor.
In the biblical story
Hazor
Major Canaanite city conquered by Joshua
Hazor was a major Canaanite city, whose king Jabin led a coalition against Israel; it was captured and destroyed by Joshua (Josh 11:1,10-11,13), later oppressing Israel before being defeated by Deborah and Barak (Judg 4:2,17).
In the Bible
Strong H2674G appears in 11 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- hazor11
First verses
- Joshua 11:1And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
- Joshua 11:10And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.
- Joshua 11:11And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
- Joshua 11:13But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.
- Joshua 12:19The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
- Joshua 19:36And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
- Judges 4:2And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
- Judges 4:17Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
- 1 Samuel 12:9And when they forgat the Lord their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
- 1 Kings 9:15And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel–beth–maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.