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Smith's Bible Dictionary
(hill of Megiddo), (Revelation 16:16) in the Revised Version for Armageddon. The change is
chiefly Har, hill, in place of Ar, city.
Harnepher
(panting), one of the sons of Zophah, of the tribe of Asher. (1 Chronicles 7:36)
Harod
(fear), The well of, a spring by which Gideon and his great army encamped on the morning of
the day which ended in the rout of the Midianites. (Judges 7:1) and where the trial of the people
by their mode of drinking apparently took place. The Ain Jalud is very suitable to the circumstances,
as being at present the largest spring in the neighborhood.
Harodite, The
the designation of two of the thirty-seven warriors of David’s guard, Shammah and Elika, (2
Samuel 23:25) doubtless denied from a place named Harod.
Haroeh
a name occurring in the genealogical lists of Judah. (1 Chronicles 2:52)
Harorite
(the same as Harodite) The, the title given to Shammoth, one of the warriors of David’s guard.
(1 Chronicles 11:27)
Harosheth
(workmanship) “of the Gentiles” so called from the mixed races that inhabited it—a city in the
north of the land of Canaan, supposed to have stood on the west coast of the lake Merom from
which the Jordan issues forth in one unbroken stream. It was the residence of Sisera captain of
Jabin king of Canaan, (Judges 4:2) and it was the point to which the victorious Israelites under
Barak pursued the discomfited host and chariots of the second potentate of that name. (Judges 4:16)
Harp
The harp was the national instrument of the Hebrews, and was well known throughout Asia.
Moses assigns its invention to Jubal during the antediluvian period. (Genesis 4:21) Josephus records
that the harp had ten strings, and that it was played on with the plectrum. Sometimes it was smaller
having only eight strings, and was usually played with the fingers.
Harphite
(native of Hariph), The, the designation of Shephatiah, one of the Korhites who repaired to
David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:5) (B.C. 1064.)
Harrow
The word so rendered, (2 Samuel 12:31; 1 Chronicles 20:3) is probably a threshing-machine.
The verb rendered “to harrow,” (Job 39:10; Isaiah 28:24; Hosea 10:11) expresses apparently the
breaking of the clods, and is so far analogous to our harrowing—but whether done by any such
machine as we call a “harrow” is very doubtful.
Harsha
(deaf). Bene-Harsha were among the families of Nethinim who came back from Babylon with
Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:52; Nehemiah 7:54)
Hart
the male stag. The word denotes some member of the deer tribe either the fallow deer or the
Barbary deer. The hart is reckoned among the clean animals, (12:15; 14:5; 15:22) and seems from
the passages quoted, as well as from (1 Kings 4:23) to have been commonly killed for food.
Harum
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