chatsor · Hazor

What it means

chatsor (חָצוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Hazor”.

The name of several places; the best known is the chief Canaanite city of the north, north of the Sea of Chinnereth.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

The place

• Hazor

  Today: Tel Hazor ruins, Israel

  A city in northern Israel, about 9 miles (15 km) north of the Sea of Galilee.

  Joshua defeated and burned it (Josh 11:10-11). Later its king Jabin oppressed Israel until Deborah and Barak defeated him (Judg 4:2). Solomon fortified it (1 Kgs 9:15).

  Joshua 11:10Judges 4:21 Kings 9:15

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Joshua×9
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Jeremiah×3

• Joshua 11:1

  And it came about, when Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,

• Joshua 11:10

  Joshua turned back at that time and took Hazor, and its king he struck with the sword; for Hazor formerly was the head of all these kingdoms.

• Joshua 11:11

  They struck every person who was in it with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction; there was not left anything that breathed; and Hazor he burned with fire.

• Joshua 11:13

  Only, all the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel did not burn them, except Hazor alone; that Joshua burned.

• Joshua 12:19

  the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;

• Joshua 15:23

  Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,

• Joshua 15:25

  Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (that is Hazor),

• Joshua 19:36

  Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,

• Judges 4:2

  YHWH sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, and he lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.

• Judges 4:17

  Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

• 1 Samuel 12:9

  But they forgot YHWH their Elohim, and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army 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 9:15

  And this is the matter of the forced labor that King Solomon raised to build the house of YHWH and his house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer.

• 2 Kings 15:29

  In the days of Pekah king of Israel Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried them into exile to Assyria.

• Nehemiah 11:33

  Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,

• Jeremiah 49:28

  Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus says YHWH: Rise up, go up against Kedar, and devastate the sons of the east!

• Jeremiah 49:30

  Flee, wander off far away, go down deep to dwell, inhabitants of Hazor, declares YHWH; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has counseled against you a counsel, and he has planned against you a plan.

• Jeremiah 49:33

  And Hazor will become a lair of jackals, a desolation forever; no one will dwell there, nor will a son of man reside in it.

And 1 more times.