Bible Location
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Hazar-enan was a north-eastern boundary point in the ideal and historical descriptions of the land. It is important because it helped define the far extent of Israel's territory in boundary language. First appears in Num 34:9.1
Coordinates
34.23, 37.24
First appears
Num 34:9
AI summary: Hazar-enan matters because some place names are important mainly through borders, and this is one of them. Numbers and Ezekiel both use it to mark the north-eastern edge of the land, showing continuity between inherited geography and prophetic restoration. The place therefore belongs less to narrative action than to the biblical imagination of how the land is bounded and ordered. The cross references present Hazar-enan as a frontier marker in the mapping of promised and restored territory.1
Latitude
34.23
Longitude
37.24
Bible references
4
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.) 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Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated.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.
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.