Harsha

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Easton's Bible Dictionary [1]

Ezra 2:52Nehemiah 7:54

Fausset's Bible Dictionary [2]

Ezra 2:52; Nehemiah 7:54.

Holman Bible Dictionary [3]

Ezra 2:52Ezra 2:59

Hitchcock's Bible Names [4]

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [5]

HARSHA . Eponym of a family of Nethinim ( Ezra 2:52 , Nehemiah 7:54 ); called in 1Es 5:32 Charea .

Morrish Bible Dictionary [6]

Ancestor of some Nethinim who returned from exile. Ezra 2:52; Nehemiah 7:51 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary [7]

Har'sha. (deaf). Bene-Harsha, (that is, sons of Harsha), were among the families of Nethinim, who came back from Babylon with Zerubbabel. Ezra 2:52; Nehemiah 7:54.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [8]

har´sha חרשׁא ḥarshā' Ezra 2:52Nehemiah 7:54

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [9]

(Heb. Charsha', חִרְשָׁא, a Chaldaizing form, ,worker or enchanter; Sept. Ἀρσά and Ἀδασάν), one of "the Nethinim whose descendants (or rather, perhaps, a place whose inhabitants) returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:52; Nehemiah 7:54). B. C. ante 536. Schwarz (Palest. p. 116) thinks it may be identical with the ruins called by the Arabs Charsha (on Zimmerman's map, Khuras), situated south of wady Sur, about half-way between Beit-Jibrin (Eleutheropolis) on the W., — and Jedur (Gedor) on the E.

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