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KadmonitesAid to Bible Understanding
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KADMONITES
(Kadʹmon·ites) [Easterners, people of the East, or, perhaps, ancients].
A people listed among other nations whose lands Jehovah promised to Abram’s seed. (Gen. 15:18-21) They were evidently a pastoral or nomadic tribe, like the Kenites and Kenizzites with whom they are mentioned. (Gen. 15:19) The exact location of their territory is uncertain, although it is suggested that they inhabited the Syrian desert between Palestine-Syria and the Euphrates River.
The Hebrew name of this people (qadh·mo·niʹ) has the same form as the adjective qadh·mo·niʹ (“eastern,” Ezek. 47:18); thus some suggest that it may merely mean “Easterners.” (Judg. 8:10) However, the fact that this Hebrew term is used as a name at Genesis 15:19 shows that it can refer to a specific tribe.
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KainAid to Bible Understanding
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KAIN
(Kaʹin) [possibly, smith].
1. A name employed in a proverbial utterance of Balaam to refer to the tribe of the Kenites. (Num. 24:22) It is rendered “the Kenites” at Judges 4:11.—See KENITE.
2. A city in the mountainous region of Judah. (Josh. 15:1, 48, 57) It is identified with Khirbet Yaqin, about three and a half miles (5.6 kilometers) SE of Hebron.
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KaiwanAid to Bible Understanding
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KAIWAN
(Kaiʹwan) [literally, Ki·yunʹ (according to the Masoretic text), this because of being intentionally vowel-pointed to correspond with the Hebrew word shiq·qutsʹ (disgusting thing); same as Rephan].
Apparently a star god, as indicated by the fact that the name “Kaiwan” is put in a parallelism with the “star of your god.” (Amos 5:26) Evidently the Akkadian star kaimanu or kaiwanu is meant, since this occurs in Akkadidan inscriptions as the name of Saturn (a star god). In the Septuagint Version “Kaiwan” is rendered Hrai·phanʹ, presumably the Egyptian designation for Saturn, and in Stephen’s quotation, at Acts 7:43, Hrom·phaʹ appears in the Westcott and Hort Greek text.—See ASTROLOGERS.
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KallaiAid to Bible Understanding
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KALLAI
(Kalʹlai) [swift, light, or, perhaps, swift servant of Jehovah].
A priest in the days of the high priest Joiakim. He was the head of the paternal house of Sallai and returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel in 537 B.C.E. after the Babylonian exile.—Neh. 12:1, 12, 20, 26.
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KamonAid to Bible Understanding
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KAMON
(Kaʹmon) [perhaps, standing place, fastness].
The burial place of Judge Jair. (Judg. 10:5) Josephus speaks of Kamon as “a city of Gilead.” (Antiquities of the Jews, Book V, chap. VII, par. 6) This seems to fit the Scriptural reference to Jair’s being a “Gileadite.” (Judg. 10:3) Two locations E of the Jordan are commonly presented for ancient Kamon. One is Qamm, about eleven miles (18 kilometers) SE of the Sea of Galilee. But its ruins give no evidence of habitation before Roman times. The other suggestion is the site of the less impressive ruins of undetermined antiquity at Qumeim, more than one mile (c. 2 kilometers) farther S.
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KanahAid to Bible Understanding
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KANAH
(Kaʹnah) [reed].
1. A torrent valley that served as a boundary between Ephraim and Manasseh. (Josh. 16:8; 17:9) Today it is usually linked with the Wadi Qanah. This small stream rises in the hill country a few miles SW of Nablus (thought to be ancient Shechem) and, as the Wadi Ishkar, flows in a southwesterly direction and then joins the Yarkon River, which empties into the Mediterranean Sea N of Tel Aviv. However, some scholars believe that in Joshua’s day the lower course of the Wadi Qanah perhaps flowed directly into the Mediterranean at a point about eight miles (13 kilometers) farther N.
2. A boundary city of Asher. (Josh. 19:24, 28) It is generally identified with modern Qana, about seven and a half miles (12 kilometers) SE of Tyre.
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KaphAid to Bible Understanding
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KAPH
[כ; final, ך].
The eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet; later, outside the Hebrew Scriptures, used also as a number to denote twenty. It is one of five Hebrew letters that have a different form when used as the final letter of a word. In Hebrew, kaph means “palm of hand.”
From the letter kaph the Greek letter kapʹpa is derived, and, in turn, the Latin and English “k” is derived from kapʹpa. In sound kaph corresponds to kh when not having the point (dagesh lene) in it; but with this point in it (כּ), it becomes hard like our English “k.” In the Hebrew, it is the initial letter in each of the eight verses of Psalm 119:81-88. The letters kaph [כ] and behth [ב] are similar in appearance.
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KappaAid to Bible Understanding
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KAPPA
[Κ, (κ].
The tenth letter in the Greek alphabet. It is derived from the Hebrew kaph, and, in turn, the English “k” originates from this source. It is pronounced like our “k.”
Kapʹpa, accented as a number, means twenty (κ΄) and, with the subscript (,κ), 20,000.
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KareahAid to Bible Understanding
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KAREAH
(Ka·reʹah) [baldhead, or, bald one].
A man of Judah whose sons Johanan and Jonathan were chiefs of military forces in Judah. This was at the time Gedaliah was commissioned by the king of Babylon over the Judeans not taken into Babylonian exile following Jerusalem’s destruction in 607 B.C.E.—2 Ki. 25:21-23; Jer. 40:7, 8.
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KarkaAid to Bible Understanding
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KARKA
(Karʹka) [floor].
A site on Judah’s S boundary (Josh. 15:1-3), the location of which is today unknown.
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KarkorAid to Bible Understanding
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KARKOR
(Karʹkor).
The campsite E of the Jordan from which the remaining forces of Midianite Kings Zebah and Zalmunna were routed by Judge Gideon’s surprise military maneuver. (Judg. 8:10, 11) Karkor’s exact location is today unknown. Some geographers, however, tentatively identify it with Qarqar, located over a hundred miles (161 kilometers) E of the Dead Sea. Whether Gideon’s tired foot soldiers traveled that distance in pursuit of the enemy may be subject to doubt.—Compare Judges 8:4, 5.
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KartahAid to Bible Understanding
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KARTAH
(Karʹtah).
A city given to the Merarite Levites out of the inheritance of Zebulun. (Josh. 21:34) Some would link Kartah with the coastal city of ʽAthlit,?1 about nine miles (15 kilometers) S of modern Haifa, but others consider it to be the same as Kattath.—Josh. 19:15.
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KartanAid to Bible Understanding
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KARTAN
(Karʹtan).
A city of Naphtali given to the Gershonite Levites. (Josh. 21:27, 32) It is apparently called Kiriathaim at 1 Chronicles 6:76. Kartan’s modern location is usually placed at Khirbet el-Qureiyeh, about thirteen miles (21 kilometers) W-NW of the Huleh Basin.
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KattathAid to Bible Understanding
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KATTATH
(Katʹtath).
A city of Zebulun (Josh. 19:10, 15), often considered to be the same as Kitron. (Judg. 1:30) But some geographers prefer to link it with ancient Kartah.—Josh. 21:34.
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KedarAid to Bible Understanding
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KEDAR
(Keʹdar) [perhaps, mighty, swarthy, or, black-tented].
1. One of the twelve sons of Ishmael.—Gen. 25:13-15; 1 Chron. 1:29-31.
2. An Arab tribe descended from Ishmael’s son Kedar and classed with “the sons of the East.” Their land is also called Kedar. (Jer. 2:10; 49:28, 29) A nomadic and pastoral people, having herds of sheep, goats and camels (Isa. 60:7; Jer. 49:28, 29), the Kedarites evidently inhabited the Syro-Arabian desert E of Palestine in the NW part of the Arabian Peninsula. The reference to “the settlements that Kedar inhabits” (Isa. 42:11), while possibly referring to temporary encampments, may instead indicate that a portion of them were somewhat settled. Perhaps because
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