Jazer
ya.a.zer is a proper name for a location named in territorial, travel, settlement, and poetic-landscape contexts.
The attested form is a proper name for a location: it is listed among territory and towns, marks a destination in travel, and appears in descriptions of land, villages, and the reach of vine branches. The same place name is also used in poetic lament connected with Sebam, Heshbon, and harvest loss.
Senses in use
-
Place name in geographic and poetic settings · dominant
All supplied tokens are tagged "Noun · Proper." In Numbers 21:32 the APB renders men being sent to spy out the place, its villages being captured, and its inhabitants displaced; in Joshua 13:25 it appears within a territorial description, and in 2 Samuel 24:5 as a destination after Aroer. In Isaiah 16:8 and Jeremiah 48:32, the APB places it in poetic descriptions of Sebam's vine and branches, while Isaiah 16:9 names it in weeping over the vine.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB generally presents the proper name as "Jazer," including territorial lists, travel, and poetic lament. In 1 Chronicles 6:66, the supplied APB text does not visibly include the name, so that verse does not isolate an English rendering of the term.