Kadesh Or Kadesh-Barnea
Called also En-Mishpat, Ge 14:7, the name of a fountain, a city, and the desert around, Ps 29:3, in the southern border of the promised land. It is said, in Nu 20:16, to lie in ...
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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.
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Kadmonites
Ge 15:19, a tribe of Canaanites who inhabited the promised land east of the Jordan, about mount Hermon. Some have fancied that Cadmus, the supposed inventor of the Greek alphabe...
Kanah
1. A brook which separated Ephraim and Manasseh, and fell into the Mediterranean north of Joppa, Jos 16:8 17:9.2. A town in the tribe of Asher, Jos 19:24,28. SeeCANA.
Kedar
A son of Ishmael, Ge 25:13, the father of the Kedarenians or Cedrei, mentioned by Pliny, who dwelt in the neighborhood of the Nabatheans, in Arabia Deserta. They were a numerous...
Kedemoth
A city in the border of Sihon king of Heshbon, whence Moses sent him an embassage of peace. A desert lay near it, De 2:26. It was afterwards a Levitical city of Reuben, Jos 13:1...
Kedesh
1. A city of refuge, in Naphtali; now Kedis, three miles northwest of lake Merom, Jos 19:37; 20:7. Barak the judge of Israel was born there, Jud 4:62. A city in the south of Jud...
Kedron
SeeKIDRON.
Keilah
A city in the plains of Judah, which David once relieved from a siege by the Philistines, but which afterwards sought to deliver him up to Saul, 1Sa 23:1-13; Ne 3:17.
Kenites
A people who dwelt west of the Dead sea, and extended themselves far into Arabia Petraea. Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, was a Kenite, and his family accompanied the Israel...
Kenizzites
An ancient people of Canaan, whose land God promised to the descendants of Abraham, Ge 15:19. They appear to have mingled with other Canaanites, and lost their distinctive name ...
Keturah
The wife of Abraham, after the death of Sarah, Ge 25:1-6. Though she is called a "concubine," this may have been to distinguish her sons as well as Ishmael from Isaac the son of...
Kibroth-Hattaavah
The graves of lust, one of the encampments of Israel in the wilderness, where they desired of God flesh for their sustenance, declaring they were tired of manna, Nu 11:34,35 33:...
Kidron Or Cedron
A winter torrent, and the valley in which it flowed, east of Jerusalem. This valley begins a little northwest of the city, passes some two hundred rods north of the present wall...
King, Kings
In Scripture, the word king does not always imply either a high degree of power or great extent of territory. Many single towns, or towns with their adjacent villages, are said ...
Kingdom Of Heaven
An expression used in the New Testament to signify the reign, dispensation, or administration of Jesus Christ. The ancient prophets, when describing the character of the Messiah...
Kir
1. A strong city of Moab; called also Kir-hareseth, Kir-haresh, and Kir-heres, Isa 15:1; 16:7,11; Jer 48:31. It was once nearly destroyed by Joram king of Israel, 2Ki 3:25. It i...
Kirjath-Arba
SeeHEBRON.
Kirjath-Jearim, Or Kirjath-Baal
Jos 15:9,60, a city of the Gibeonites afterwards given to Judah. It was on the confines of Benjamin, Jos 18:14,15, about nine miles from Jerusalem in the way to Lydda. Here the ...
Kirjathaim
1. The dual form of Kirjath, a city. It was an ancient city of the Emim, east of the Jordan; afterwards inhabited by the Moabites, Amorites, and Israelites in turn, Ge 14:5De 2:...
Kirjathsannah And Kirhathsepher
SeeDEBIR.
Kishon
Now the Mukutta, a brook that rises in the plain of Esdraelon, near the foot of mount Tabor. After passing through the great plain and receiving the waters of various smaller st...
Kiss
This salutation was customary in the East, to express regard and reverence, as well as affection, Gen 29.13; Ru 1.14; Acts 20.37. Sometimes the beard was kissed, 2Sa 20:9; and i...
Kite
A bird of prey, and therefore placed by Moses among the unclean birds, Le 11:14. SeeBIRDS.
Kittim
Son of Javan, and grandson of Noah, Ge 10:4. SeeCHITTIM.
Kneading-Troughs
In the description of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt, Ex 12:34, we read that "the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound ...
Kohath
Son of Levi, Ge 46:11, and father of the Kohathites, who were appointed to carry the ark and sacred utensils of the tabernacle during the journeyings of the Israelites in the de...
Korah
A Levite, who rebelled against Moses and Aaron, and so against Jehovah. He was a cousin of Moses; for their fathers Izhar and Amram were brothers, Ex 6:16-21. He was jealous of ...