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st 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.
Where is Hosah in the Bible?
Hosah was a Levitical city located on the border of the tribe of Asher in ancient Israel, as recorded in Joshua 19:29. It was situated in the northern coastal region of Canaan, likely in the area near or south of Acre in what is now modern-day Israel. Some scholars suggest that Hosah may correspond to the Assyrian city of Usu, which could have been an ancient name for the mainland city associated with Tyre. As a Levitical city, Hosah was designated as a settlement for the Levites, who served religious and judicial functions throughout Israel's tribal territories.
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ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)st 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.
ho-zan'-a (hosanna): This Greek transliteration of a Hebrew word occurs 6 times in the Gospels as the cry of the people when our Lord entered Jerusalem as the Messiah represented by Zec (9:9), and of "the children" wh