HADNT.— To haunt is in older English simply to fre(|ucnt, to make one's stay, be familiar with, and conveys no reproach. Thus Jn 3--' Timl. 'After these thinges cam Jesus and his disciples into the Jewes londe, and ther he haunted with them and bapti.sed ' (3ifrpi/3t, AV 'tarried'); U" Tind. ' Jesus therfore . . . went his waye . . . into a cite called Ephraim, and there haunted with his disciples' (Ji^/x;3f, AV 'continued'); Ruther- ford, Letters (No. 1), ' I trust you will acquaint her with good company, and bo diligent to know with whom she loveth to haunt.' So in AV, I S 30" ' to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt ' (cv■^^^^l1-lyt!) ; Ezk 20" ' the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it 1 ' (Ci';t'''"'''?S I^Vm ' on all that inhabited her'); and the subst. in 1 S 23-" '(Jo, I prav you, prepare yet, and know an<l see his place wlicre his haunt is' (^Sp, lit. ' his foot ' as AVm and liVni). J. Hastings.
HAURAN (Au/xlcot, 2 Mao 4*), described as a man ' far gone in years and no less also in mad- ness.' At the head of a large boily of armed men he endeavoured to supjire.ss a tumult in Jenisftlem provoked by the continued sacrileges
of Lysimachus, brother of the apostate high priest Menelaus. Some MSS and the Vuig. sujiport the reading Tyrannus, but the more familiar name is less likely to have been altered by copyists.
H. A. White. HAURAN (np ; for various conjectures as to meaning, see Oxf. Heb. Lex. ; AvpcwiTu • Arab.
^' ..::^, or in common speech el-^n^rAn. — This was the name given, with varyinj; definition of boundaries, to a tract of land E. of the Jordan, N. of Gilead, extending E. to the desert. In Ezk 47'"- '" the Jordan is made the border-line between HaurJln, Damascus, and Gilead on the one hand, and the Land of Israel on the other. Hauriln is there the whole district between Damascus and Gilead, from the lip of the Jordan Valley ea-st- ward. This practically corresponds with the province under the Turkish governor of Haur,1n to-day, whose seat is in el-5lerkez, and whose jurisdiction includes Jedflr, Jaulfin, and part of the hill-country south of the Jarmuk, as well as the region now specially called Haurftn.
A series of beautiful cone-like hills, extinct vol- canoes all, runs southward from the roots of Gt. Hermon, through JedClr and JaulSn. Almost parallel with these, along the edge of the desert eastward, stands the great basaltic dj'ke, known at dillerent times as Mons Asaldamus, Jebel Hauran, and Jebel ed-Druze. Between these two ranges lies a vast hollow, about 45 miles in breadth. In length, from Jebel el-Aswad in the N. to the bank of the Jarmuk in the S., it is nearly 50 miles ; while away to the S.E. it runs out into the open desert. if we derive the name from hator, a ' hollow,' with the place-ending dn, it may very well have applied to this gigantic vale.
The natives now say that llauran consists of three parts, viz. en-Nukrab, el-Lej.1, and el-Jebel. These are clearly defined districts. (1) En-Nukrah, ' the cavity,' lies between the range of ez-Zumleh on the S.W., the slopes of Jaulan to westward, the volcanic fields of el-Lejft on the N., and Jebel ed- Druze on the E. The wide reaches forming the floor of the hollow are rich, and fairly cultivated. This is the great grain-growing tract E. of Jordan. The elevation of the plain is from 1500 to 2000 ft. above sea-level. (2) El-Lejft may be roughly de- scribed as a triangle, about 24 miles in length, with a base line of al>out 20 miles in the S., the apex bein^ at Bur»k in the N. It is composed entirely of cooled l.s<», which is thrown about in the most grotesque and fantastic forms. The general aspect is dark, stem, forbidding. Soil is scanty, and but indili'erently tilled. There are a few springs, but for the most part the inhabitanta depend upon rain water, collected in cisterns or natural cavities in the rock. Great tracts to the N.E., owing to lack of water, are left absolutely tenantless during the summer months. The borders, where the lava waves drop to meet the emerald of the surrounding plain, are so distinctly marked that many have su]M)0sed this must be the fir.bel ' Argub — "the measured lot of Argob' of Dt •J4. 18. w 1 K 4'» (but see Argou). The handful of peasants in the western parts arecompletelj' at the mercy of the Arabs of el-Lejft', of whom a local proverb assferts that ' greater rascals do not exist.' The Druzes hold the district to the S.E. The name el-Ijejd', ' the o-sylum,' or ' refuge,' signifies the use to which the place is often jiut. The present writer has met, in the heart of el-LcjA, men who had been charged with various olVences in Mt. Lebanon and elsewhere, who, as soon as they passed the rocky rampart.s round the borders, felt jicrfectly safe from the othcers of the law. (3) El-Jeoel is, of course, the great range which bounds the east- ward view, of which el-Kuleib, 6730 ft. high, and