Azmaveth

Town · today Hizma

Location likely Hizma: about 7 km (4 miles, 40 furlongs) north of Jerusalem

Where Scholars Place It

• Hizma Likely
• Ras Zukeir Possible

Azmaveth in the Bible Dictionary

Named in 3 Verses

• Ezra 2:24 The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
• Nehemiah 7:28 The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two.
• Nehemiah 12:29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.

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