Hazar-susah

Hazar-susah ("village of the mare") — Hazar-susim ("village of the horses") in 1 Chronicles 4:31 — was a Simeonite town in the western Negev (Joshua 19:5). Paired with its sister town Beth-marcaboth ("house of chariots"), the name preserves the memory of a regional Canaanite or Egyptian cavalry tradition that predated Israelite settlement: together they probably represent an older military outpost network on the Negev frontier that Simeon inherited. The exact site is uncertain but lay west of Beersheba. The chronicler notes "these were their towns until David reigned" — the small garrisons absorbed into the early Davidic kingdom.