HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2855
חֶתְלֹן
chet.lon — Hethlon
§ Hethlon = "hiding place" a place on the northern border of Palestine
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Hethlon
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Wrapped up, a place on the north border of Palestine. The “way of Hethlon” (Ezek. 47:15; 48:1) is probably the pass at the end of Lebanon from the Mediterranean to the great plain of Hamath (q.v.), or the “entrance of Hamath.”
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.