Hadrach

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Hadrach
     the name of a country (Zech. 9:1) which cannot be identified.
     Rawlinson would identify it with Edessa. He mentions that in the
     Assyrian inscriptions it is recorded that "Shalmanezer III. made
     two expeditions, the first against Damascus B.C. 773, and the
     second against Hadrach B.C. 772; and again that Asshurdanin-il


     II. made expeditions against Hadrach in B.C. 765 and 755."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Hadrach, point; joy of tenderness