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•HAZAR-SHUAL village or enclosure of the jackal, a city on the south border of Judah (Joshua 15:28; Nehemiah 11:27). It has been identified with the ruins of Saweh, half-way between Beersheba and Moladah.

•HAZAR-SUSAH village of the horse, the same as Sansannah, one of Solomon’s “chariot cities” (Joshua 15:31; 2 Chronicles 1:14), a depot in the south border of Judah.

•HAZEL Hebrews luz, (Genesis 30:37), a nutbearing tree. The Hebrew word is rendered in the Vulgate by amygdalinus, “the almond-tree,” which is probably correct. That tree flourishes in Syria.

•HAZERIM villages, probably the name of the temporary villages in which the nomad Avites resided (Deuteronomy 2:23).

•HAZEROTH fenced enclosures consisting of “a low wall of stones in which thick bundles of thorny acacia are inserted, the tangled branches and long needle-like spikes forming a perfectly impenetrable hedge around the encampment” of tents and cattle which they sheltered. Such like enclosures abound in the wilderness of Paran, which the Israelites entered after leaving Sinai (Numbers 11:35; 12:16; 33:17, 18). This third encampment of the Israelites has been identified with the modern ‘Ain el-Hudhera, some 40 miles north-east of Sinai. Here Miriam (q.v.), being displeased that Moses had married a Cushite wife (Numbers 12:1), induced Aaron to join with her in rebelling against Moses. God vindicated the authority of his “servant Moses,” and Miriam was smitten with leprosy. Moses interceded for her, and she was healed (Numbers 12:4-16). From this encampment the Israelites marched northward across the plateau of et-Tih, and at length reached KADESH.

•HAZEZON-TAMAR pruning of the palm, the original name of the place afterwards called ENGEDI (q.v.), Genesis 14:7; called also HAZAZON-TAMAR (2 Chronicles 20:2).

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