a hasty messenger
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
HESHMON.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
Near Beersheba (Jos_15:27). Probably Azmon on the southern boundary of Judah (Num_34:4); but according to Conder El Meshash.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Hesh'mon. (rich soil). A place named, with others, as lying in the extreme south of Judah. Jos_15:27.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
hesh?mon (חשׁמון, ḥeshmōn): An unidentified place on the border of Judah toward Edom (Jos_15:27). This may have been the original home of the Hasmoneans.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Heshmon
(Heb. Cheshmon', חֶשְׁמוֹן,faltness; Sept. Α᾿σεμω῎ν), a city on the southern border of Judah (Simeon), near Idumaea, mentioned between Hazor-Gaddah and Beth-Palet (Jos_15:27); hence probably somewhere between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean. It is possibly the same as the AZMON SEE AZMON (q.v.) elsewhere (Jos_15:4) located in.this vicinity. SEE HAZAR-ADDAR.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.