HAZAZON-TAMAR (? pruning of the palm, Gen_14:7).It is identified with En-gedi (2Ch_20:2). The name is preserved in Wâdy Hasaseh, N. of Ain Jidy. Gen_14:7, however, seems to place it to the S. W. of the Dead Sea.
W. Ewing.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Haz'azon-ta'mar. See Hazezon-tamar.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
haz?a-zan-tā?mar (חצצן תּמר, ḥacăcōn tāmār; the King James Version Hazezon Tamar): ?Hazazon of the palm trees,? mentioned (Gen_14:7) as a place of the Amorites, conquered, together with En-mishpat and the country of the Amalekites, by Chedorlaomer; in 2Ch_20:2 it is identified with EN-GEDI (which see); and if so, it must have been its older name. If this identification be accepted, then Hazazon may survive in the name Wādy Husāsah, Northwest of ‛Ain Jidy. Another suggestion, which certainly meets the needs of the narrative better, is that Hazazon-tamar is the Thamara of Eusebius, Onomasticon (85 3; 210 86), the Θαμαρω, Thamarō, of Ptol. xvi.3. The ruin Kurnub, 20 miles West-Southwest of the South end of the Dead Sea - on the road from Hebron to Elath - is supposed to mark this site.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Hazazon-tamar
(2Ch_20:2). SEE HAZEZON-TAMAR.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.