Places of the Bible
Hadid
What the spade found
Hadid is generally identified with Tell Hadid, a tell — a mound raised by one settlement built on the ruins of the last. It has been excavated, and at its largest covered 4 hectares.
Occupation shows in 9 dated phases: Early Bronze Age IV/Middle Bronze Age I/Int. Bronze, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age I, Iron Age IIa-b, Iron Age IIc, Iron Age III (Persian), Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine.
The excavation is from the survey dataset From Villages to Empires (Zanoni and others, 2025), used under CC BY 4.0. The identification is the one modern scholarship settles on, compiled by OpenBible.info from over seventy works, also under CC BY 4.0. Identifying a mound with a biblical name is a scholarly judgement, and for some places it is still debated.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Pointed, a place in the tribe of Benjamin near Lydda, or Lod, and Ono (Ezra 2:33; Neh. 7:37). It is identified with the modern el-Haditheh, 3 miles east of Lydda.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 3 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.