חֶצְרוֹןChetsrôwn

1.

Pronunciation: khets-rone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2696

Meanings

a. place in extreme south of Judah (Joshua 15:3; Numbers 34:4)

b. another town of Judah in south (Joshua 15:25)

2.

a. son of Reuben (Genesis 46:9; Exodus 6:14; Numbers 26:6)

b. son of Peres and grandson of Judah (Genesis 46:12; Numbers 26:21; Ruth 4:18)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 18 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 46:9 The sons of Reuben were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
  • Genesis 46:12 The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (though Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
  • Exodus 6:14 These are the ancestors of some of the clans of Israel: The sons of Reuben, Israel’s oldest son, were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. Their descendants became the clans of Reuben.
  • Numbers 26:6 The Hezronite clan, named after their ancestor Hezron. The Carmite clan, named after their ancestor Carmi.
  • Numbers 26:21 These were the subclans descended from the Perezites: The Hezronites, named after their ancestor Hezron. The Hamulites, named after their ancestor Hamul.
  • Joshua 15:3 ran south of Scorpion Pass into the wilderness of Zin, and then went south of Kadesh-barnea to Hezron. Then it went up to Addar, where it turned toward Karka.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).