En-hakkore (Hastings' Dictionary)

The name of a fountain at Lehi (Jg 15"). The narrator (J (?)) of the stoiy characteristically connects halkore with the word yikra ('he callea') of v.", and evidently interprets ' En-hakhore as ' the spring of him that called.' The whole narrative is rather obscure, and the tr. in some instances doubtful, but probably the story is something to the following ell'ect.

After Ilia exertions in slaughtering the Philistines, Samson was very tliirsty, and, finding no water, he cried to J", who clave the mnktex/i ('mortar' or ' hollow place') which is in Lehi, and from a cleft in one of its sides water flowed (so Moore). This certainly seems preferable to the interpretation re- E resented by AV, which understands the water to ave sprung from a hollow place in the jaw {lehi). There is much ditlerence of opinion regarding the situation of 'En-hakkore.

In Jerome's time it was shown at Eleutheropolis ; Conder identities it with 'Ayun I^aia, N. W. of Zorali ; Van de Velde with a large spring between Tell el-Leklyeh (4 milea N. of Beersheba) and Khuweilfeh. LiTRRATURB. — Conder, Tent-Work, i. 277, BihU Places, 87 ; Ou«rin, Judie, ii. 318 1., 390 S. ; Van de Velde, J/emoir, S43 ; Moore, Judges, 3460. ; Beiua, .ir i. 15S ; PKFSt, 1869, 182. J. A. Selbik. EN-HAZOR (i^sn py), 'spring of Razor,' Jos 19".

— A town of Naplitali, noticed between Kedcsh, Edrei, and Iron. There were three Hazors in Upper Galilee, and the site is uncertain ; but the most probable place for En-hazor seems to b« Hazireh, on the W. slopes of the mountains ol Upper Galilee, W. of Kedesh. See SWP vol. i. sheet iii. C. R. Conder.