Hazazon-Tamar
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [1]
Hazazon-Tamar (? ‘pruning of the palm,’ Genesis 14:7 ). It is identified with En-gedi ( 2 Chronicles 20:2 ). The name is preserved in Wâdy Hasaseh , N. of ’Ain Jidy . Genesis 14:7 , however, seems to place it to the S. W. of the Dead Sea.
W. Ewing.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [2]
Haz'azon-ta'mar. See Hazezon-tamar .
Holman Bible Dictionary [3]
Genesis 14:7 2 Chronicles 20:2Engedi
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
haz´a - zan - tā´mar ( חצצן תּמר , ḥacăcōn tāmār ; the King James Version Hazezon Tamar ): "Hazazon of the palm trees," mentioned ( Genesis 14:7 ) as a place of the Amorites, conquered, together with En-mishpat and the country of the Amalekites, by Chedorlaomer; in 2 Chronicles 20:2 it is identified with En-Gedi (which see); and if so, it must have been its older name. If this identification be accepted, then Hazazon may survive in the name Wādy Husāsah , Northwest of ‛Ain Jidy . Another suggestion, which certainly meets the needs of the narrative better, is that Hazazon-tamar is the Thamara of Eusebius, Onomasticon (85 3; 210 86), the Θαμαρω , Thamarō , of Ptol. xvi.3. The ruin Kurnub , 20 miles West-Southwest of the South end of the Dead Sea - on the road from Hebron to Elath - is supposed to mark this site.
