A town in the extreme S. of Judah (Jos_15:25), the Qeri (the Hebrew margin) reads Hazor-hadattah, i.e New Hazor. So Eusebius and Jerome; but they place it near and E. of Ascalon, which is in the shephelah, whereas Joshua places it among towns of S. Judah. Now El-Hudhaira, S. of Jebel Khulil (Robinson).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Hadat'tah. (new). According to the Authorized Version, one of the towns of Judah, in the extreme south. Jos_15:25.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ha-dat?a (הדתּה, ḥădhattāh, ?new?): See HAZOR.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Hadattah
(Heb. Chadattah', חֲדִתָּה. a Chaldaizing form=nova; Sept. omits, Vulg. nova), according to the A.T. one of the towns of Judah in the extreme south Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, etc. (Jos_15:25); but the Masoretic accents of the Hebrew connect the word with that preceding it, as if it were Hazor-chadattah, i.e. New Hazor, in distinction from the place of the same name in Jos_15:23. This reading is expressly sanctioned by Eusebius and Jerome, who speak (Onomast. s.v. Asor) of New Hazor as lying in their day to the east of and near Ascalon. (See also Reland, Palcest. p. 708.) But Ascalon, as Robinson has pointed out (Researches, new ed. 2, 34, note), is in the Shefelah, and not in the south, and would, if named in Joshua at all, be included in the second division of the list, beginning at Jos_15:33, instead of where it is, not far from Kedesh. Still the total (29) in Jos_15:32 requires as in much abbreviation in the enumerated list of cities in this group as possible. SEE HAZOR- HADATTAH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.