Hosah

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Hosah: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

a town in Asher south of Tyre
a Merari Levite gatekeeper; his descendants returned from exile

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trusting

Google Maps: Hosah (32° 10´, 35° 13´)

Hebrew

Strongs #02621: hox Chocah

Hosah = "refuge"

n pr m
1) a Levitical doorkeeper of the temple

n pr loc
2) a place in Asher, site unknown

2621 Chocah kho-saw'

from 2620; hopeful; Chosah, an Israelite; also a place in
Palestine:-Hosah.
see HEBREW for 02620

Hosah [EBD]

refuge. (1.) A place on the border of the tribe of Asher (Josh. 19:29), a little to the south of Zidon.

(2.) A Levite of the family of Merari (1 Chr. 16:38).

Hosah [NAVE]

HOSAH
1. A city of Asher, Josh. 19:29.
2. A Levite, 1 Chr. 16:38; 26:10, 11.

HOSAH [SMITH]

(refuge), a city of Asher, (Joshua 19:29) The next landmark on the boundary to Tyre.

HOSAH [SMITH]

a Merarite Levite, chosen by David to be one of the first doorkeepers to the ark after its arrival in Jerusalem. (1 Chronicles 16:38) (B.C. 1014.)

HOSAH [ISBE]

HOSAH - ho'-sa (chocah): A city on the border of Asher, in the neighborhood of Tyre (Josh 19:29). Septuagint reads Iaseiph, which might suggest identification with Kefr Yasif, to the Northeast of Acre. Possibly, however, as Sayce (HCM, 429) and Moore (Judges, 51) suggest, Hosah may represent the Assyrian Usu. Some scholars think that Usu was the Assyrian name for Palaetyrus. If "the fenced city of Tyre" were that on the island, while the city on the mainland lay at Ras el-`Ain, 30 stadia to the South (Strabo xvi.758), this identification is not improbable.