Place · City
Hazar-enan
Named in 4 verses across 2 books, first in Numbers 34:9.
In the Bible
All 2 verses in Numbers, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Numbers
- Numbers 34:9
continue to Ziphron, and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your boundary on the north.
- Numbers 34:10
And your eastern border will run straight from Hazar-enan to Shepham,
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
Village of fountains, a place on the north-east frontier of Palestine (Num. 34:9, 10). Some have identified it with Ayan ed-Dara in the heart of the central chain of Anti-Libanus. More probably, however, it has been identified with Kuryetein, about 60 miles east-north-east of Damascus. (Comp. Ezek. 47:17; 48:1.)