Joshua 15:25

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth, Hezron (the same is Hazor),

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2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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וְחָצ֤וֹר

Châtsôwr Chădattâh

H2675

“and · Hazor-Hadattah”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2674 and a Aramaic form of the fem. of H2319 [compare H2323 ]

TWOT: None

Hazor-Hadattah = "new Hazor" - a city in the south of Judah; Jos 15:25

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

6: words
5: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְחָצ֤וֹר Hazor-Hadattah H2675 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

וְחָצ֤וֹר Hazor-Hadattah H2675
וּקְרִיּ֔וֹת Kerioth H7152

Grammatical profile

5 nouns
1 pronoun

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וְחָצ֤וֹר Hazor-Hadattah H2675 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 8 words from the Hebrew and 8 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 6 Hebrew tokens and 6 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Joshua 15:25 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְחָצ֤וֹר חֲדַתָּה֙ וּקְרִיּ֔וֹת חֶצְר֖וֹן הִ֥יא חָצֽוֹר

Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth, Hezron (the same is Hazor),

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Greek LXX Joshua 15:25 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ πόλις ασερων οὗτος ασωρ

and the cities of Aseron, this is Asor,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְחָצוֹר חֲדַתָּה וּקְרִיוֹת חֶצְרוֹן הִיא חָצוֹר:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Joshua 15:25 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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John Gill's Exposition

Amam,.... Of Amam we read nowhere else:

and Shema is thought by some to be the same with Sheba, though wrongly, given afterwards to the tribe of Simeon, as was also Moladah, mentioned with it, Jos 19:2,

and Moladah; it is also spoken of in Ch1 4:28, and seems to be the same with Malathi or Malatis, about twenty miles from Hebron (f).

(f) Vid. Reland. Palest. Illustrat. tom. 2. p. 885, 886.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

New Asor, to distinguish it from the capital of Jabin, in the north. This was dependent on Ascalon. (Eusebius) --- Hebrew, "and Hazor, Hadatta, and (or) Kerioth ("the towns") of Hezron, which is Hazor." The Septuagint only specify the same town of Asor by different names. There was one towards Arabia, Numbers xi. 35.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Hazor, Hadattah possibly it should be read as one word, Hazor-hadattah, as there is Hazar-gaddah, Jos 15:27, and Hazar-shual, Jos 15:28, such compounded proper names being usual; and this may seem the more probable, because if Hazor and Hadattah were two different cities, the conjunction and would have been put between them, as it is generally in the rest.

Which is Hazor, or, which also is called Hazor; but to distinguish it from the other Hazor, Jos 15:23, this was called also Hezron.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

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Beersheba

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Lesson kit

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Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Châtsôwr Chădattâh (“Hazor-Hadattah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Châtsôwr Chădattâh carries the sense “Hazor-Hadattah.” How does it shape the verse?
2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
What does the repetition of “Hazor-Hadattah” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
Compare how John Gill's Exposition and Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 6 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
“Hazor-Hadattah” occurs 2× in this single verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.