- HASHMONAH fatness, the thirtieth halting-place of the Israelites during
their wanderings in the wilderness, not far from Mount Hor (Numbers
33:29, 30). - HASHUB intelligent. (1.) A Levite of the family of Merari (Nehemiah
11:15; 1 Chronicles 9:14). (2.) Nehemiah 3:23. 3:11. - HASHUBAH ibid., a descendant of David (1 Chronicles 3:20).
- HASHUM opulent. (1.) Ezra 2:19; Nehemiah 7:22. (2.) Stood on Ezra’s
left hand while he read the law (Nehemiah 8:4). - HASRAH poverty, “keeper of the wardrobe,” i.e., of the sacerdotal
vestments (2 Chronicles 34:22); called Harhas 2 Kings 22:14. He was
husband of the prophetess Huldah. - HASUPHA uncovered, one of the Nethinim (Ezra 2:43; Nehemiah 7:46).
- HAT Chald. karb’ela, (Daniel 3:21), properly mantle or pallium. The
Revised Version renders it “tunic.” - HATACH verity, one of the eunuchs or chamberlains in the palace of
Ahasuerus (Esther 4:5, 6, 9, 10). - HATHATH terror, son of Othniel (1 Chronicles 4:13).
- HATIPHA captured, one of the Nethinim (Ezra 2:54).
- HATITA exploration, one of the temple porters or janitors (Ezra 2:42). He
returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. - HATRED among the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:20). Altogether
different is the meaning of the word in Deuteronomy 21:15; Matthew
6:24; Luke 14:26; Romans 9:13, where it denotes only a less degree of
love. - HATTUSH assembled. (1.) A priest who returned with Zerubbabel
(Nehemiah 12:2). (2.) Ezra 8:2. (3.) Nehemiah 3:10. (4.) Nehemiah 10:4.
(5.) 1 Chronicles 3:22. - HAURAN cave-land, mentioned only in Ezekiel 47:16, 18. It was one of
the ancient divisions of Bashan (q.v.), and lay on the south-east of
Gaulanitis or the Jaulan, and on the south of Lejah, extending from the
Arnon to the Hieromax. It was the most fertile region in Syria, and to this
day abounds in the ruins of towns, many of which have stone doors and
kiana
(Kiana)
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