Hazar-Addar

Hazar-addar is a point on the southern boundary of Canaan, named once in Numbers and once — in the shorter form Addar — in the matching survey of Judah's southern border in Joshua.

A point on the southern boundary

The boundary description in Numbers traces the line from the ascent of Akrabbim down through Zin and past Kadesh-barnea: "and your⁺ border will turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out of it will be southward of Kadesh-barnea; and it will go forth to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon;" (Nu 34:4). The plural-you marker (⁺) shows the boundary is being assigned to the people as a whole.

The Joshua parallel re-traces the same line for the tribal allotment of Judah, with the shorter spelling at the same node: "and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh-barnea, and passed along by Hezron, and went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka;" (Jos 15:3). The two descriptions step through the same waypoints — Akrabbim, Zin, Kadesh-barnea — and reach the same place from opposite ends, fixing Hazar-addar (or Addar) as a southern-frontier marker between Kadesh-barnea and Azmon.