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Smith's Bible Dictionary
(exploring). Bene-Hatita (i.e. sons of Hatita) were among the “porters” (i.e. the gate-keepers)
who returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:42; Nehemiah 7:45) (B.C. 536.)
Hattuph
(assembled).
•A descendant of the kings of Judah apparently one of the sons of Shechaniah, (1 Chronicles 3:22)
in the fourth or fifth generation from Zerubbabel. A person of the same name accompanied Ezra
from Babylon to Jerusalem. (Ezra 8:2) In another statement Hattush is said to have returned with
Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 12:2)
•Son of Hashabniah. one-of those who assisted Nehemiah in the repair of the wall of Jerusalem.
(Nehemiah 3:10) (B.C. 446.)
Hauran
(caverns), a province of Palestine twice mentioned by Ezekiel. (Ezekiel 47:16,17) There can
be little doubt that it is identical with the well-known Greek province of Auranitis and the modern
Hauran east of the Sea of Galilee, on the borders of the desert, in the tetrarchy of Philip.
Havilah
(Genesis 2:11)
•A part of Eden through which flowed the river Pison (Araxes). It was probably the Grecian Colchis,
in the northeast corner of Asia Minor, near the Caspian Sea.
•A district in Arabia Felix, (Genesis 10:7) named from the second son of Cush; probably the district
of Kualan, in the northwestern part of Yemen.
(circle).
•A son of Cush. (Genesis 10:7)
•A son of Joktan. (Genesis 10:29)
Havothjair
(villages of Jair), certain villages on the east of Jordan, in Gilead or Bashan, which were taken
by Jair the son of Manasseh, and called after his name. (Numbers 32:41; 3:14) In the records of
Manasseh in (Joshua 13:30) and 1Chr 2:23 The Havoth-jair are reckoned with other districts as
making up sixty “cities.” Comp. (1 Kings 4:13) There is apparently some confusion in these different
statements as to what the sixty cities really consisted of. No less doubtful is the number of the
Havoth-Jair. In (1 Chronicles 2:22) they are specified as twenty-three, but in (Judges 10:4) as thirty.
Hawk
(Leviticus 11:16; 14:15; Job 39:26) The hawk includes various species of the Falconidae . With
respect to the passage in Job (l.c.) which appears to allude to the migratory habits of hawks, it is
curious to observe that of the ten or twelve lesser raptors (hawk tribe) of Palestine, nearly all are
summer migrants. The kestrel remains all the year, but the others are all migrants from the south.
Hay
(Heb. chatsir), the rendering of the Authorized Version in (Proverbs 27:25) and Isai 15:6 Of
the Hebrew term, which occurs frequently in the Old Testament, and denotes “grass” of any kind.
It is quite probable that the modern Orientals do not make hay in our sense of the term; but it is
certain that the ancients did mow their grass, and probably made use of the dry material. See (Psalms
37:2) We may remark that there is an express Hebrew term for “dry grass” or “hay,” viz. chashash,
which, in the only two places where the word occurs, (Isaiah 5:24; 33:11) is rendered “chaff” in
the Authorized Version.
Hazael
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