Addar

Addar (also called Hazar-addar) was a station on the southern boundary of Judah's tribal inheritance described in Joshua 15:3: "it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa." The same boundary appears in Numbers 34:4 with the spelling Hazar-addar. The line marked the divinely-prescribed southern frontier of the Promised Land, running from the Dead Sea south to the Wadi el-Arish (Brook of Egypt). The exact site of Addar is uncertain but lay somewhere west of Kadesh-barnea in the high Negev.