HAAHASHTARI
(the courier), a man or a family immediately descended from Ashur. "father of Tekoa," by his second wife Naarah. (1 Chronicles 4:6) (B.C. after 1450.)
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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HABAIAH, OR HABAJAH
(whom Jehovah hides). Bene-Habaiah were among the sons of the priests who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:61; Nehemiah 7:63) (B.C. before 459).
HABAKKUK OR HABAKKUK
(embrace), the eighth in order of the minor prophets. Of the facts of the prophet’s life we have no certain information. He probably lived about the twelfth or thirteenth year o...
HABAKKUK, PROPHECY OF
consists of three chapters, in the first of which he foreshadows the invasion of Judea by the Chaldeans, and in the second he foretells the doom of the Chaldeans. The whole conc...
HABAZINIAH
(light of Jehovah), apparently the head of one of the families of the Rechabites. (Jeremiah 35:3) (B.C. before 589.)
HABERGEON
a coat of mail covering the neck and breast. [ARMS, ARMOR]
HABOR
(beautiful banks), the "river of Gozan," (2 Kings 17:6) and 2Kin 18:11 Is identified beyond all reasonable doubt with the famous affluent of the Euphrates, which is called Aborr...
HACHALIAH
(whom Jehovah enlightens), the father of Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 1:1; 10:1)
HACHILAH, THE HILL
a hill apparently situated in a wood in the wilderness or waste land in the neighborhood of Ziph, in Judah, in the fastnesses or passes of which David and his six hundred follow...
HACHMONI
(wise) Son of, and The Hach’monite. (1 Chronicles 11:11; 27:32) Hachmon or Hachmoni was no doubt the founder of a family to which these men belonged: the actual father of Jashob...
HADAD
(mighty), originally the indigenous appellation of the sun among the Syrians, and thence transferred to the king as the highest of earthly authorities. The title appears to have...
HADADEZER
(2 Samuel 8:3-12; 1 Kings 11:23). [HADAREZER]
HADADRIMMON
is, according to the ordinary interpretation of (12:11) a place in the valley of Megiddo (a part of the plain of Esdraelon, six miles from Mount Carmel and eleven from Nazareth)...
HADAR
[HADAD]
HADAREZER
(Hadad’s help), son of Rehob, (2 Samuel 8:3) the king of the Aramite state of Zobah, who was pursued by David and defeated with great loss. (1 Chronicles 18:3,4) (B.C. 1035.) Af...
HADASHAH
(new), one of the towns of Judah, in the maritime low country, (Joshua 16:37) only, probably the ADASA of the Maccabean history.
HADASSAH
(myrtle), probably the earlier name of Esther. (Esther 2:7)
HADATTAH
(new). According to the Authorized Version, one of the towns of Judah in the extreme south. (Joshua 15:25)
HADES
in Revised Version. [See HELL]
HADID
(sharp), a place named, with Lod (Lydda) and Ono, only in the later books of the history. (Ezra 2:33; Nehemiah 7:37; 11:34) In the time of Eusebius a town called Aditha or Adath...
HADLAI
(rest of God), a man of Ephraim. (2 Chronicles 28:12)
HADORAM
(noble honor).The fifth son of Joktan. (Genesis 10:27; 1 Chronicles 1:21) His settlements, unlike those of many of Joktan’s sons, have not been identified.Son of Tou or Toi king...
HADRACH
(dwelling), a country of Syria, mentioned once only, by the prophet Zechariah. (Zechariah 9:1) The addition of the district, with its borders, is here generally stated; but the ...
HAGA BAH
under which it is found in the parallel list of (Ezra 2:45)
HAGAB
(locust). Bene-Hagab were among the Nethinim who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:46) (B.C. before 536.)
HAGABA
(locust). Bene Hagaba were among the Nethinim who came back from captivity with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 7:48) The name is slightly different in form from
HAGAR
(flight), an Egyptian woman, the handmaid or slave of Sarah, (Genesis 16:1) whom the latter gave as a concubine to Abraham, after he had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan an...