Hezron
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Hezron is a name which occurs several times in the Hebrew Bible
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The Hebrew Bible is a term used by biblical scholars outside of Judaism to refer to the Tanakh , a canonical collection of Jewish texts, and the common textual antecedent of the several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament...
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- A plain in the south of JudahKingdom of JudahThe Kingdom of Judah was a Jewish state established in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. It is often referred to as the "Southern Kingdom" to distinguish it from the northern Kingdom of Israel....
, west of Kadesh-barnea (JoshuaJoshuaJoshua , is a minor figure in the Torah, being one of the spies for Israel and in few passages as Moses's assistant. He turns to be the central character in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Joshua...
15:3). - One of the sons of Reuben (Genesis 46:9; Exodus 6:14, NumeriNumeriNumeri can mean:*Latin for "numbers"*The Latin name for the Book of Numbers in the Bible*Numeri , a sort of Roman auxiliary troops...
26:6). - The older of the two sons of PharezPharezAccording to the Book of Genesis, Pharez/Pיrez was the son of Tamar and of Judah, and was the twin of Zerah. The text argues that he was called Perez because he was the first twin to be born, and thus had breached the womb...
In (Genesis 46:12), he is mentioned among the youngest generation of the 70 Israelites to move to Egypt with JacobJacobJacob "heel" or "leg-puller"), also later known as Israel , as described in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the New Testament and the Qur'an was the third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, which were named after his descendants.In the...
. See also 1 Chronicles 2:5-24