ADASA.A town near Bethhoron (1Ma_7:40; 1Ma_7:45, Jos. [Note: Josephus.] Ant. XII. x. 5), now the ruin Adaseh near Gibeon.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Ad'asa. (new). A place in Judea, about four miles from Beth-horon. 1Ma_7:40; 1Ma_7:45 See Hadashah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
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).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
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 (1Ma_7:40; 1Ma_7:45; Joseph. Antiq. xii. 10, 5; Bell. Jud. i. 1, 6).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Adasa
(Α᾿δασά), a village of Judaea, where Judas the Maccabee slew the Assyrian general Nicanor (1Ma_7:40; 1Ma_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 (Jos_15:37). SEE LAISH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.