Hazerim

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

An ancient abode of the Avim, apparently in the northwestern part of Arabia Petraea, Deuteronomy 2:23 .

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Deuteronomy 2:23

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The villages or "enclosures" of the wandering Avvim, the ancient occupants of southwestern Palestine (Deuteronomy 2:28). (See HAZAR.)

Holman Bible Dictionary

Deuteronomy 2:23Gaza

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

HAZERIM . In AV [Note: Authorized Version.] a place-name, but rightly replaced by ‘villages’ in RV [Note: Revised Version.] ( Deuteronomy 2:23 ).

J. F. M’Curdy.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

This may refer to a district in the S.W. of Palestine, or to the temporary dwellings of the Avim before they were expelled by the Caphtorim. Deuteronomy 2:23 . The R.V. and others translate it 'hamlets' or 'villages.'

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Haze'rim. (villages). The Avim, or more accurately the Avvim, are said to have lived "in the villages (Authorized Version, 'Hazerim') as far as Gaza", Deuteronomy 2:23, before their expulsion by the Caphtorim.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ha - zē´rim , haz´ẽr - im ( חצרים , ḥăcērı̄m ): Is rendered in the King James Version ( Deuteronomy 2:23 ) as the name of a place in the Southwest of Palestine, in which dwelt the Avvim, ancient inhabitants of the land. The word means "villages," and ought to be translated as in the Revised Version (British and American). The sentence means that the Avvim dwelt in villages - not in fortified towns - before the coming of the Caphtorim, the Philistines, who destroyed them.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

[many Haze'rim] (Hebrew Chatserim', חֲצֵטַים , villages; Sept. Ἀσηρώθ, Vulg. flaserim), the name of a place, or perh. rather a general designation of the temporary villages in which the nomade AVITES resided, especially between Gaza and " the river of Egypt" or el-Arish (Deuteronomy 2, 23). Schwarz suggests (Palestine, p. 93) that these "Hazerim" may be a general designation of the many towns by the name of HAZOR and HAZAR found in this region; if so, these probably all lay near each other; and it is a singular fact that the sites of at least two of them, Hazar-gaddah and Hazar-susah, seem to have been immediately adjoining one another.