Hadashah

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Joshua 15:37

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A town in the shephelah or low hills of Judah (Joshua 15:37).

Holman Bible Dictionary

Joshua 15:37

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

HADASHAH . A town in the Shephçlah of Judah ( Joshua 15:37 ); site unknown.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

City in the lowlands of Judah. Joshua 15:37 . Identified by some with Ebdis or Eddis, 31 41' N, 34 42' E .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Had'ashah. (new). One of the towns of Judah, in the Shefelah, or maritime low country, Joshua 16:37 only, probably the Adasa of the Maccabean history.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ha - dā´sha , had´a - sha ( חדשׁה , ḥădhāshāh , "new"): A town in the Shephelah of Judah, named with Zenan and Migdal-gad ( Joshua 15:37 ). According to the Mishna ( ‛Ērūbhı̄n , Zechariah 12:6 ), it was the smallest town in Judah. It is not identified.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Chadashah', חֲדָשָׁה , new; Sept. Ἀδασά v.r. Ἀδασάν ), a city in the valley of Judah, mentioned in the second group between Zenan and Migdal-gad (Joshua 15:37). It has generally been thought (Winer, Realw. s.v.) to be the same with the Adasa (‘ Accaas) of Josephus (Ant. 12, 10, 5) and the Apocrypha ‘(1 Macc. 8:40, 45), and likewise of the Onomasticon (s.v.), which, however, must have lain rather in the mountains of Ephraim, apparently near the modern village Surda. (See Adasa). Schwarz (Phys. Descript. of Pal. p. 103) inclines to identify it with a little village el-Chadas, stated by him to lie between Migdal and Ashkelon, the el-Jora of Van de Velde's Map. According to the Mishna (Erub. 5, 6), it anciently contained 50 houses only (Reland, Palaest. p. 701). (See Tribe Of Judah).