Hadid

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Ezra 2:33Nehemiah 7:37

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

"sharp," as being on a craggy height. Aditha, named by Eusebius, E. of Diospolis (Lydda or Lod, with which it is named Ezra 2:33; Nehemiah 7:37; Nehemiah 11:34), is probably Hadid). In Van de Velde's map el-Hadithah, three miles E. of Lydda.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Ezra 2:33Nehemiah 11:34

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

HADID . Named along with Lod and Ono ( Ezra 2:38 = Nehemiah 7:37 ), peopled by Benjamites after the Captivity ( Nehemiah 11:34 ), probably to be identified also with Adida of 1Ma 12:38; 1Ma 13:13 . It is the modern Haditheh in the low hills, about 3 1 / 4 miles N.E. of Lydda.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Town near Lod and Ono. Ezra 2:33; Nehemiah 7:37; Nehemiah 11:34 . Identified with Haditheh, 31 58' N, 34 57' E .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ha'did. (sharp). A place named, with Lod (Lydda) and Ono, only in the later books of the history. Ezra 2:33; Nehemiah 7:37; Nehemiah 11:34. In the time of Eusebius, a town called Aditha or Adatha existed to the east of Diospolis (Lydda). This was probably Hadid.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hā´did ( חדיד , ḥādhı̄dh ): A city in Benjamin ( Nehemiah 11:33 f) named with Lod and Ono ( Ezra 2:33; Nehemiah 7:37 ), probably identical with Adida (Septuagint Ἁδιδά , Hadidá ) of 1 Macc 12:38; 13:13, "over against the plain," which was fortified by Simon Maccabeus. It is represented by the modern el - Ḥadı̄theh , about 3 miles Northeast of Lydda.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Chadid', חַדיד , pointed, perh. from its situation on some craggy eminence, Gesenius, Thesaur. p. 446; Sept. Ἀδώδ in Nehemiah 11:31, elsewhere unites with preceding word, Λοδαδίδ; Vulgate Hadid), a place in the tribe of Benjamin, in the vicinity of Lod and Ono, whose inhabitants returned from the captivity to their old seat under Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:33, where some copies read חָרַיד, HARID; Nehemiah 7:37; Nehemiah 11:34). It is probably the same with one of the cities called ADIDA (See Adida) (q.v.) by Josephus (War, 4, 9, 1), but not that of the Apocrypha (1 Maccabees 12:38; comp. Josephus, Ant. 13:15, 2). In the time of Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s.v. Adithaim), a town called Aditha (Ἀδαθά) existed to the east of Diospolis (Lydda). According to Schwarz (Phy. Description If Palestine, p. 134), it was identical with the present "village el-Chadida, situated 5 Eng. miles east of Lud, on the summit of a round mountain:" probably the same with that seen by Dr. Robinson, and called by him "el- Haditheh, a large village just at the mouth of a wady, as it issues from the hills east of Ludd into the plain" (new edit. of Researches, 3, 143, note). This district, although, within the territory of Dan, belonged to Benjamin. The same place is described by the old Jewish traveler ha-Parchi as being "on the summit of a round hill," and identified by him, no doubt correctly, with Hadid (Zunz, in Asher's Benj. of Tudela, 2, 439).