HAZAR-GADDAH.An unknown town in the extreme south of Judah (Jos_15:27).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Probably now El Ghurra (Conder). A town on the S. of Judah (Jos_15:27).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Hazar-gaddah
(Heb. Chatsar'-Gaddah', גִּדָּה חֲצִר, village of fortune; Sept. Α᾿σεργαδδά v.r. Σερείμ), a city on the southern border of Judah, mentioned between Moladah and Heshmon (Jos_15:27). Modern writers (see Reland, Palest. p. 707), following the suggestion of Jerome (Onomast. s.v.; who, as suggested by Schwarz, Palestine, p. 100, has probably confounded this place with En-Gedi), have sought for it near the Dead Sea; but the associated names appear to locate it nearer midway towards the Mediterranean. SEE HAZERIM. Mr. Grove suggests (Smith, Dict. s.v.) that it is possibly the modern ruined site marked as Jurrah on Van de Velde's Map, west of el-Melh (Moladah), by the change so frequent in the East (?) of D. to R. SEE JUDAH, TRIBE OF.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.