Hazelelpo'ni, or rather Zelklpoxi C^a'sbbrJj shade looking upon me [or protection of the presence, sc. God; Flirst], with the article, i3isbb:Jil, hats-Tselel- potii', strictly, perhaps, rather an epithet, the Zelelponite, q. d. overshadoiced ; Sept. 'l^(ji)\ik(pu)v,Yvi\'^. Aselelphu- ni), the sister of Jezrcel and others, of the descendants of Hezron, son of Judah (1 Chron. iv, 3). B.C. cir. 1612. Hazelius, Ernest Lewis, D.D., was bom in Neu- salz, Prussia, Sept. 6, 1777. He was descended from a long line of Lutheran ministers. His theological stud- ies were pursued at Niesky, a Moravian institution un- der the superintendence of bishop Anders. In 1800 he was appointed teacher of the classics in the Moravian Seminary at Nazareth, Pa. The position he accepted in opposition to the wishes of his friends, and at once em- barked for America. In this institution he labored with efficiency for eight years, and was advanced to be head- teacher and professor of theology. Differing from his brethren in their views of church government and disci- pUne, he concluded to change liis ecclesiastical relations, and to unite mth the Lutheran Church, in whose serv- ice his fathers had so long lived and labored. In 1809 he removed to Philadelphia, and for a time had cliarge of a private classical school. For several years he la- bored as a pastor in Ne-\v Jersey, and in 1815 was elected professor of theology in Hartwick Seminary, and princi- pal of the classical department. In 1830 he was chosen professor of Biblical and Oriental literature, and of the German language, in the seminary at Gettysburg, Pa. ; and in 1834 he accepted the appointment of professor in the theological seminary of the Sjmod of South Caro- lina. All these positions he filled with ability and great satisfaction to the Church. He died Feb. 20, 1853. As a scholar he occupied a high rank. The doctorate he received simultaneously from Union and Columbia Col- leges, N. Y. His attainments in literature were varied and extensive. He published Life of iMther (1813) : — Materials for Cateckisation (1823) :— .1 ugsburr/ Confes- sion, with Annotations: — History of the Chi-istian Church (18-12) -.—mst. of the American Lutheran Church (1842) : —Life of J. //. StilliTui (1831). (:M. L. S.)
Ha'zer ("isn, Chatser', from I^H, to surround or inclose), a word which is of not unfrequent occurrence in the Bible in the sense of a " court" or quadrangle to a palace or other building, but which toiiographicallj' seems generally employed lor the " villages" of people in a roving and unsettled life, the semi-permanent collec- tions of dwellings described by travellers among the modern Arabs as consisting of rough stone walls cover- ed with the tent-cloths, and thus holding a middle po-
sition between the tent of the wanderer — so transitory as to furnish an image of the sudden termination of life (Isa. xxxviii, 12) — and the settled, permanent town. See Topographical Terms.
As a proper name it appears in the A.V. : 1. In the plural, H.VZERIM, and H.vzeroth, for which see below. 2. In the slightly different form of H.vzor. 3. In com- position with other words, givmg a special designation to the particular "village" intended. When thus in union with another word the name is Hazar (q. v.). It should not be overlooked that the places so named are all in the wilderness itself, or else quite on the confuies of civilized comitry. — Smith, s. v.
Haz'erim [many Ilaze'rini] (Hebrew Chatserim', ni'n^n, rUlafjes; Sept. 'kar]ow5i,Y\x\g. Ilaserim), the name of a place, or perh. rather a general designation of the temporary' villages in which the nomade A\'ITEs re- sided, especially between Gaza and " the river of Egj'pt" or el-Arish (Dent, ii, 23). Schwarz suggests {Palestine, p. 93) that these " Hazerim" may be a general designa- tion of the many towns by the name of Hazor and Ha- zar fomid in this region ; if so, these probably all lay near each other; and it is a singular fact that the sites of at least two of them, Hazar-gaddah and Hazar-susah, seem to have been immechately adjoining one another.
Haz'eroth [many Haze'roth'] (Heb. Chatseroth', nil^n, villufjes; Sept. 'A(T//pw3, but AvXwv in Dent, i, 1), the sixteenth station of the IsraeUtes, their third af- ter leaving Sinai, and either four or five days' march from that moimtain towards Canaan (Numb, xi, 35 ; xii, IG ; xxxiii, 17, 18 ; Dent, i, 1 ; comp. Numb, x, 33), It was also the first place after Sinai where the camp re- mained for a number of days. Here Aaron and I\nriara attempted to excite a rebellion agamst Moses ; and here the guilty jMiriam was smitten with leprosy (Numb. xii). Burckhardt suggested {Travels, p. 495) that it is to be found in A in el-Hudhera, near the usual route from Si- nai to the eastern arm of the Red Sea ; an identification that has generally been acquiesced in by subsequent travellers. It is described by Dr. Robinson as a foun- tain of tolerably good water, the only perennial one in that region, with several low palm-trees around it ; he also remarks that the identification of this spot with Hazeroth is important as sho;ving the route of the Is- raeUtes from Sinai to the Arabah, which, if it passed through this place, must have continued down the val- ley to the Red Sea, and could not have diverged through the high western plateau of the wilderness {Researches, i, 223). See Exode. " Its distance from Sinai accords with the Scripture narrative, and would seem to -war- rant us in identifying it with Hazeroth. There is some difficulty, however, in the position. The coiuitry around the fountain is exceedingly rugged, and the approaches to it difficult. It does not seem a suitable place for a large camp. Dr. Wilson mentions an undulating plain about fifteen miles north of Sinai, and rumiing ' a long way to the eastward,' called el-IIadherah ; and here he would locate Hazeroth {Lands of the Jiihle, i, 25G). Stan- ley thinks that the fomitain called el-Ain, some distance north of the fountain of Hudherah, ought rather to be regarded as the site of Hazeroth, because 'Ain is the most important spring in this region, ' and must there- fore have attracted around it any nomadic settlements, such as are implied in the name Hazeroth, and such as that of Israel might have been' {Sinai and Pal. p. 82). The approach to 'Ain is easy; the glens around it pos- sess some good pastures ; and the road from it to the yElanitic Gulf, along \vhose shore the IsraeUtes appear to have marched, is open through the subUme ravine of Wetir. StiU, those familiar with the East know with what tenacity old names cling to old sites ; and it seems in the highest degree probable that the old name Haz- eroth is retamed in Hudherah. But probably the name may have been given to a wide district (Porter, Hand- book for S. and Pal. I 37 sq.)" (Kitto, s. v.). Schwarz, however {Palest, p. 212), regards the site as that of .4m