AZEM or EZEM. A city S. of Judah; afterward allotted to Simeon (Jos_15:29; Jos_19:3).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
A'zem. (bone). A city in the extreme south of Judah, Jos_15:29, afterwards, allotted to Simeon. Jos_19:3. Elsewhere it is Ezem.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ā?zem: the King James Version form for Ezem (Thus the Revised Version (British and American)) (Jos_15:29; Jos_19:3).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Azem
(Hebrews E'tsem, עֶצֶם, a bone, in pause A'tsem, עָצֶם; Sept. Α᾿σέμ v. r. Α᾿σόμ, Ι᾿ασόν), a city in the tribe of Simeon, originally included within the southern territory of Judah, in the neighborhood of Balah (or Bilhah) and Eltolad (or Tolad) (Jos_15:29; Jos_19:3; 1Ch_4:29, in which last passage it is Anglicized Ezem, Sept. Βοασόμ v. r. Αἰσέμ). These notices afford only a slight ground for a conjectural location, perhaps in the great plain at the south-west extremity of the tribe, possibly at the ruins on Tell Akhmar (Van de Velde, Map).
Azem
Of this place Dr. Tristram thinks (Bible Places, p. 23) a trace remains in the name of the Azazimeh Arabs who occupy the region in question. SEE IIM.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.