Adasa
Smith's Bible Dictionary [1]
Ad'asa. (New). A place in Judea, about four miles from Beth-horon. 1 Maccabees 7:40; 1 Maccabees 7:45 See Hadashah .
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
Adasa . A town near Bethhoron ( 1Ma 7:40; 1Ma 7:45 , Jos. [Note: Josephus.] Ant . XII. x. 5), now the ruin ‘Adaseh near Gibeon.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
( Ἀδασά ), a village of Judaea, where Judas the Maccabee slew the Assyrian general Nicanor ( 1 Maccabees 7:40; 1 Maccabees 7:45), and where he was himself afterward slain by the generals of Antiochus (Josephus, War, 1, 1, 6). It was situated, according to Josephus (Ant. 12, 10, 5), 30 stadia from Bethhoron, and, according to Jerome (Onomast. s.v.). not far from Gophna, but was hardly the HADASHAH (See Hadashah) (q.v.) of the tribe of Judah ( Joshua 15:37). (See Laish).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
ad´a - sa ( Ἀδασά , Adasá ; the King James Version Adarsa ): A town less than four miles from Beth-horon (30 furlongs Ant , Xii , x, 5; 1 Macc 7:40) and a day's journey from Gazara (1 Macc 7:45), where Judas Maccabee defeated and killed Nicanor, a general of Demetrius (1 Macc 7:40ff). The ruin of Adaseh near Gibeon ( SWP , III, Xvii ).
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature [5]
Ada´sa, or Adarsa, called also by Josephus Adazer, Adaco, and Acodaco, a city in the tribe of Ephraim, said to have been four miles from Beth-horon, and not far from Gophna. It was the scene of some important transactions in the history of the Maccabees ( 1 Maccabees 7:40; 1 Maccabees 7:45; Joseph. Antiq. xii. 10, 5; Bell. Jud. i. 1, 6).
