Bible Location
Meaning: grief; looking for grief · 1 cross reference · Modern-day map available
Halhul was a highland town in Judah north of Hebron. It is important because it remains one of the more clearly identifiable mountain settlements in the southern hill country. First appears in Josh 15:58.1
Place meaning
grief; looking for grief
Coordinates
31.58, 35.10
First appears
Josh 15:58
AI summary: Halhul matters because Judah's upland geography is preserved not just in lists but in communities that remained visible across long stretches of history. The place belongs to the lived mountain world south of Jerusalem.1
Place meaning
grief; looking for grief
Latitude
31.58
Longitude
35.10
Bible references
1
Full of hollows, a town in the highlands of Judah (Josh. 15:58). It is now a small village of the same name, and is situated about 5 miles north-east of Hebron on the way to Jerusalem. There is an old Jewish tradition that Gad, David’s seer (2 Sam. 24:11), was buried here. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
| Book | Cross-References |
|---|---|
| Josh |
Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.