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Hazor (other)
Hazor or Hatzor ( he, חצור) may refer to: Places * Hatzor, a kibbutz in Be'er Tuvia Regional Council, Southern District, Israel * Hatzor Airbase, an Israeli Air Force military air base * Hazor HaGelilit, a town in northern Israel near Rosh Pinna and Safed * Baal-hazor, the highest point on Mount Hazor, named in the Second Book of Samuel * En-hazor, a fortified settlement named in the Book of Joshua * Mount Hazor, a plateau on the boundary between Samaria and Judea * Nahal Hazor, a tributary to the Jordan River in the Dead Sea watershed * Tel Hazor, an archaeological tell at the site of ancient Hazor in the southern Hula Valley * Kingdoms of Hazor, mentioned in Jeremiah 49:28 and 49:30 Other * "Hazor", a song on the 1998 album ''The Circle Maker'' (among several others) by John Zorn * Hatzor Junction, the intersection of Highway 40 (Israel) Highway 40 ( he, כביש 40) is a north-south intercity road in Israel. At 302 km long, it is the second longest highway in Isra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatzor
Hatzor ( he, חָצוֹר), officially Hatzor Ashdod, is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located near Ashdod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology The kibbutz is named after a biblical city in the territory of the Tribe of Judah called Hatzor (Joshua 15:23). The extended name ''Hatzor Ashdod'' is to distinguish between this kibbutz and the Galilean town of Hatzor HaGlilit, although the kibbutz is best known as simply "''Hatzor''".Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p.193, (English) History Before the establishment of the kibbutz The gar'in of the kibbutz was founded by a group of Hashomer Hatzair graduates from Mandatory Palestine who gathered at Mishmar HaEmek in 1936. It was named as ''Kibbutz Eretz Israeli Gimel'' (Gimel is the third letter of the Hebrew Alphabet). In 1937, the members left Mishmar HaEmek and moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatzor Airbase
Hatzor Israeli Air Force Base ( he, בָּסִיס חֵיל-הַאֲוִויר חָצוֹר) , also titled Kanaf 4 (''lit.'' Wing 4) is an Israeli Air Force military air base, located in central Israel near kibbutz Hatzor after which it is named. It was opened RAF Qastina in 1942 by the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the then British Protectorate of Palestine. History RAF Qastina RAF Qastina, after the nearby Palestinian village of the same name, was an RAF station in Palestine between 1942 and 1948. On the night of 25 February 1946, Irgun militants attacked the airfield and destroyed several parked RAF Handley Page Halifax transports. Two additional RAF airfields, RAF Lydda (Ben Gurion International Airport) and RAF Kfar Sirkin, were attacked in what became known as the "Night of the Airplanes". Altogether, the attacks destroyed 20 RAF aircraft and damaged several others. Following these attacks, the RAF closed some of its Pale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazor HaGelilit
Hatzor HaGlilit ( he, חָצוֹר הַגְּלִילִית lit. "Hatzor of Galilee") is a town in the Korazim Plateau in northern Israel near Rosh Pinna and Safed. It is named for the nearby biblical site of Tel Hazor. In it had a population of . History Ancient Hazor Hatzor HaGlilit is named after the biblical city of Hazor, a Canaanite and later Israelite city belonging to the tribe of Naphtali (Joshua 19:36). In 732 BCE, it was conquered by Tiglath-Pileser III of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and its population was deported, while the city was burnt to the ground.Israel Finkelstein, ''The Bible Unearthed'' Ancient Hazor was discovered in Tel Hazor, a tell located near kibbutz Ayelet HaShahar, few kilometers north of Hazor HaGlilit. Modern Hatzor HaGlilit Hatzor HaGlilit was founded in 1952–1953 as a transit camp. The new camp was located on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Mughr al-Khayt, 1 km southeast of the village site.Khalidi, 1992, p47 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baal-hazor
Baal-hazor ( he, בַּעַל חָצוֹר, link=, lit=Baal's village) is a place on the border of Ephraim and Benjamin where Absalom held the feast of sheep-shearing when Amnon was assassinated, according to . It is probably identical with Hazor mentioned in . Baal-hazor is identified with Tell Asur, a 1,016 meters high mountain 8 km north-east of Bethel. It is the highest mountain in Samaria and one of the highest mountains in the West Bank. See also *Hazor (other) Hazor or Hatzor ( he, חצור) may refer to: Places * Hatzor, a kibbutz in Be'er Tuvia Regional Council, Southern District, Israel * Hatzor Airbase, an Israeli Air Force military air base * Hazor HaGelilit, a town in northern Israel near Rosh Pi ... Hebrew Bible places Absalom Books of Samuel {{Tanakh-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
En-hazor
En-hazor ("fount of Hazor") is a fortified settlement named in the Book of Joshua as part of the inheritance of Naphtali, distinct from a settlement called Hazor mentioned in the same context. Its location has not been identified, though a number of possible sites have been proposed. Yohanan Aharoni suggested that it was located at Aynata in Lebanon. Alternatively, it may have been situated at Khirbet Hazzur on the slopes of the mountains of Upper Galilee, west of Kedesh, though no fountain has been found here.International Standard Bible Encyclopedia', Geoffrey W. Bromiley Geoffrey W. Bromiley (1915–2009) was an ecclesiastical historian and historical theologian. He was professor emeritus at Fuller Theological Seminary, "having been Professor of Church History and Historical Theology there from 1958 until his re .... Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing (1994) References {{Tanakh-stub Hebrew Bible cities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Hazor
Mount Hazor ( he, רמת חָצוֹר, translit=Ramat Hazor) is an irregularly shaped plateau, marking the geographical boundary between Samaria to its north and Judea to its south. Its peak, Ba'al Hazor (Arabic: Tall Asur), identified with the biblical Baal-hazor, reaches approximately above sea level. Its name is derived from the word for "courtyard", referring to the walled enclosures that this large land mass enabled ancients to construct. These enclosures served as seasonal pens for sheep that were brought there for shearing, which was accompanied with a festive gathering. The peak housed a pagan shrine for worship of a Baal (deity) who was considered "lord of the mountain", hence its name: "Baal-hazor". The Genesis Apocryphon of the Dead Sea scrolls identifies Ramat Hazor as the site between Bethel and Ai where Abraham Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahal Hazor
Nahal ( he, נח"ל) (acronym of ''Noar Halutzi Lohem'', lit. Fighting Pioneer Youth) is a program that combines military service with mostly social welfare and informal education projects such as youth movement activities, as well as training in entrepreneurship in urban development areas. Prior to the 1990s it was a paramilitary Israel Defense Forces program that combined military service and the establishment of agricultural settlements, often in peripheral areas. The Nahal groups of soldiers formed the core of the Nahal Infantry Brigade. History In 1948, a ''gar'in'' (core group) of Jewish pioneers wrote to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion requesting that members be allowed to do their military service as a group rather than being split up into different units at random. In response to this letter, Ben-Gurion created the Nahal program, which combined military service and farming. Some 108 kibbutzim and agricultural settlements were established by the Nahal, many of them on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rivers Of Israel
This is a list of rivers of Israel. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Nahal (Hebrew) and Wadi (Arabic) commonly translate to Stream, more seldom River. Streams entirely on the West Bank are not listed here. Mediterranean Sea Rivers emptying into the Mediterranean Sea, listed from north to south. * Nahal Betzet (Arabic: Wadi Karkara) *Nahal Kziv (Arabic: Wadi al-Qarn) *Ga'aton River *Na'aman River (Hebrew: Nahal Na'aman, Arabic: Nahr al-Na'mein), ancient Belus River *Kishon River ** (Arabic: Wadi Abu Alhiya), formerly Nahal Nahash * Nahal Taninim (Arabic: Wadi az-Zarqa) *Hadera Stream (Arabic: Nahr Akhdar) * Nahal Alexander * Nahal Poleg (Arabic: Wadi al-Faliq) *Yarkon River **Wadi Qana or Qanah (Hebrew: Nahal Qanah) ** Ayalon River (Arabic: Wadi Musrara) ** (Arabic: Wadi Amuriya) *Nahal Sorek (Arabic: Wadi al-Sarar) *Lakhish River (Arabic: Wadi Suqrir) * or Shiqma (Arabic: Wadi el-Hesi), location of an i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tel Hazor
Tel Hazor ( he, תל חצור), also Chatsôr ( he, חָצוֹר), translated in LXX as Hasōr ( grc, Άσώρ), identified at Tell Waqqas / Tell Qedah el-Gul ( ar, تل القدح, Tell el-Qedah), is an archaeological tell at the site of ancient Hazor, located in Israel, Upper Galilee, north of the Sea of Galilee, in the northern Korazim Plateau. In the Middle Bronze Age (around 1750 BCE) and the Israelite period (ninth century BCE), Hazor was the largest fortified city in the country and one of the most important in the Fertile Crescent. It maintained commercial ties with Babylon and Syria, and imported large quantities of tin for the bronze industry. In the Book of Joshua, Hazor is described as “the head of all those kingdoms” (Josh. 11:10). Though some scholars do not consider the Book of Joshua to be historically accurate,Killebrew, Ann E., (2005)Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, and Early Israel, 1300-1100 B.C.E. So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdoms Of Hazor
Kingdom commonly refers to: * A monarchy ruled by a king or queen * Kingdom (biology), a category in biological taxonomy Kingdom may also refer to: Arts and media Television * ''Kingdom'' (British TV series), a 2007 British television drama starring Stephen Fry * ''Kingdom'' (American TV series), a 2014 US television drama starring Frank Grillo * ''Kingdom'' (South Korean TV series), a 2019 South Korean television series *'' Kingdom: Legendary War'', a 2021 South Korean television series Music * Kingdom (group), a South Korean boy group * ''Kingdom'' (Koda Kumi album), 2008 * ''Kingdom'' (Bilal Hassani album), 2019 * ''Kingdom'' (Covenant Worship album), 2014 * ''Kingdoms'' (Life in Your Way album), 2011 * ''Kingdoms'' (Broadway album), 2009 * ''Kingdom'' (EP), a 1998 EP by Vader * "Kingdom" (Dave Gahan song), 2007 * "Kingdom" (Maverick City Music and Kirk Franklin song), 2022 * "Kingdom", a song by Battle Beast on their 2013 album '' Battle Beast'' * "Kingdom", a so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Circle Maker
''The Circle Maker'' is a double album by John Zorn featuring Zorn's Masada compositions performed by the Masada String Trio (on Disc One: Issachar) and the Bar Kokhba Sextet (on Disc Two: Zevulun) which was released in 1998 on the Tzadik label. Reception The Allmusic review by Joslyn Layne awarded the album 5 stars stating "Zorn skeptics will find the superb and elegant music on ''The Circle Maker'' surprisingly stable and accessible... All of these musicians are accomplished in jazz and improvised music, and have performed extensively in world and/or classical settings as well. ''The Circle Maker'' is a very necessary recording for all appreciators of chamber jazz, new Jewish music, or any of these stellar musicians."Layne, JAllmusic Reviewaccessed November 7, 2013 Track listing ''All compositions by John Zorn'' * ''Disc One: Issachar'' # "Tahah" – 2:30 # "Sippur" – 3:21 # "Karet" – 1:21 # "Hadasha" – 5:36 # "Taharah" – 3:51 # "Mispar" – 2:47 # "Ratzah" – 4:36 # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
