Kabzeel (“gathered by El” ) Judah in the southeast ( Joshua 15:21). The native place of Benaiah, one of David’s “mighty men” ( 2 Samuel 23:20; 1 Chronicles 11:22). Jekabzeel in Nehemiah 11:25, where it is one of the places occupied after the return from captivity. It was probably a shepherd settlement (so many of which are known), its name being derived from “the gathering of the flocks.”

Kabbalah Reception; doctrine received orally. The teachings are: 1. God is above everything; even above being and thinking. Therefore, it cannot be said truly that he has either a will, desire, thought, action — language, because these belong to finite man. He cannot be comprehended by the intellect, nor described with words. He is in a peculiar sense without life, for He cannot die, and He in a certain sense does not exist, because that which is incomprehensible does not exist to us. Therefore, he made known some properties of His existence to us. The will to create implies limit, therefore the imperfect world, limited and finite, is no work of the infinite; but since there cannot be any accident or chance where infinite wisdom resides, the world band universe) must have been indirectly created by the ten intelligences (SEFIROTH ), which emanate from the One original emanation, the infinite intelligence (EN SEF ). These ten powers have bodies, the one original emanation (not created) has a form also. They are divided into three groups; which operate on the three worlds, of intellect, of souls, and of matter. All human souls are pro-existent in the world of sefiroth, and must live the life of probation on the earth. If its life is pure it rises to the sphere of the sefiroth; but if it sins, it will have to live over and over again until it becomes pure. (Some say the limit is to three trials). The souls that have lived have the first right to new-born bodies, and so there are many waiting even for the first chance, and Messiah cannot be born until all others have been born, at the end of days. This is a hermeneutical (explaining Scripture) system, invented to satisfy those Jews who did not agree with the descriptions of heaven by the prophets.

Kades ( 1 ) (Judith 1:9 ). Summoned to aid him by Nebuchadnezzar. Kadesh Naphtali ( Joshua 15:23 ).

Kades ( 2 ) Greek form of Kadesh ( Judges 1:9.) Kadesh (“holy places”) En Mishpat (“spring of judgment”), which is Kadesh ( Genesis 14:7). The most northern place reached by the Israelites in their direct road to Canaan. Located at Ain el Weibeh, on the western side of the Arabah, northwest of Petra where there is the most copious fountain and the most important watering-place in that valley. There are no ruins of any “city”, nor of the tomb of Miriam (Jerome, Onom.). . Kadmiel (“one stands before El” ) A Levite who returned with Zerubbabel ( Ezra 2:40; 3:9; Nehemiah 7:43).

Kadmonites, the Children of the East ( Genesis 15:19).

Kain ( Numbers 24:22).

Kallai (“swift messenger of Jehovah?” ) A priest ( Nehemiah 12:20 ).

Kanah (“reed” ) ( Joshua 19:28 ). Asher. Seven miles southeast of Tyre, a village of 300 families. A mile north of it is the ancient site (Em el Awamid, mother of columns), with ruins, some of which are colossal—foundations oil-presses, cisterns, and posts of houses, and great numbers of columns (Land and Book 298). AIN KANAH, five miles southeast of Sidon, is also claimed as the true site.

Kanah, the River Boundary between Ephraim and Manasseh, flowing into the Mediterranean two miles south of Caesarea ( Joshua 16:8; 17:9), now called Nar Ahkar.

Kareah (“bald-head” ) Father of Johanan and Jonathan ( Jeremiah 40:8), called CAREAH.

Karkaa (“flat” ) On the boundary., next to Azmon, on the south side of Judah ( Joshua 15:3). Lost.

Karkor (“level place” ) Where Zeba and Zalmunna felt “secure” with their host, and Gideon smote them ( Judges 8:10,11). Somewhere on the level Mishor, but not identified.

Kartah (“city” ) ( Joshua 21:34). In Zebulon. Lost.

Kartan (“two towns” ) Naphtali ( Joshua 21:32). Kirjathaim?

Kattath (“small” ) Zebulon ( Joshua 19:13). Small Kedar (“black” ) Second son of Ishmael ( Genesis 25:13). Settled his tribe in the northwest of Medina, in Arabia, bordering Palestine. The glory of the sons of Kedar is mentioned by Isaiah ( Isaiah 21:13-17), their villages ( Isaiah 42:11), and their princes by Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 27:21), who supplied Tyre with sheep and goats; and in Canticles ( Song of Solomon 1:5) their tents are noticed as “black, but comely.” Mohammed traces his lineage to Abraham through the celebrated Koreish tribe, which sprang from Kedar. The Arabs in the Hejaz are called Beni Harb (“men of wait”), and are Ishmaelites as of old, from their beginning. Palgrave says their language is as pure now as when the Koran was written (A.D. 610), having remained unchanged more than 1,200 years; a fine proof of the permanency of Eastern institutions.

Kedemah (“eastward” ) Son of Ishmael ( Genesis 25:15).

Kedemoth (“beginnings” ) Reuben, east of the Dead Sea, near the Arnon ( Deuteronomy 2:26). Name of a city and a wilderness (i.e. the pasture-land) near it. Lost. This district has not been explored.

Kedesh (“sanctuary” ) 1. Kedesh in Galilee, one of the Cities of Refuge. A fortified city in Naphtali ( Joshua 19:37). The residence of Barak ( Judges 4:6), where he and Deborah assembled their army. The tree of Zaanaim, under which was pitched the tent in which Sisera was killed, was in the vicinity. It was captured by Tiglath Pileser, with other towns, and its people removed to Assyria (2 Kings 15). The tomb of Barak was shown in the twelfth century (Benjamin of Tudela). The site is beautiful. A little green plain among the mountains, with a border of wooded hills, and well watered. The ruins on a rounded tell, which was once fortified, and the broken columns and handsome capitals, sarcophagi, and heaps of hewn stones, show its former grandeur. 2. In Issachar ( Joshua 21:28 has Kishon, and 1 Chronicles 6:72, Kedesh). 3. South, in Judah ( Joshua 15:23). Kadesh Barnea?

Kedron .

Kehelathah (“assembly” ) ( Numbers 33:22). Between Sinai and Kadesh. Lost.

Keilah ( 1 ) (“fort” ) Judah, in the Shefelah ( Joshua 15:44). David rescued it from the Philistines in harvest-time ( 1 Samuel 23:1). It was then fortified ( Samuel 23:7). After the return from Babylon the people of Keilah assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem ( Nehemiah 3:17,18). The tomb of the prophet Habakkuk was said to be here, by Josephus and Jerome. The site is located northwest of Hebron about ten miles; on a projecting cliff on the right bank of Wady el Feranj, where there is a large ruined castle called Kilah.

Keilah ( 2 ) , THE GARMITE. Descendant of Caleb ( 1 Chronicles 4:19).

Kelaiah (“assembly” ) ( Ezra 10:23).

Kelita (“dwarf” ) A Levite who returned with Ezra ( Ezra 10:23). .

Kemuel (“assembly of El?” ) 1. A son of Nahor ( Genesis 22:21). 2. Son of Shiptan, appointed by Moses to assist in dividing the land of Canaan ( Numbers 34:24). 3. Father of Hashabiah ( 1 Chronicles 27:17).

Kenan Son of Enos ( 1 Chronicles 1:2; Genesis 5:9).

Kenath (“possession” ) A strong city of Bashan, or rather Argob. Taken by Nobah, who changed its name to Nobah ( Numbers 33:42). One of sixty cities, all fenced, with high walls, gates, and bars, taken by Jair in Argob ( Deuteronomy 3:3, etc.). Gideon went up by Nobah after Zeba and Zalmunna. Now called Kenawat, and beautifully situated on the west slope of the Hauran, in the midst of oak groves. The ruins extend a mile and a half long by half a mile wide, and consist of temples, palaces, theaters, towers, churches (of the early Christians), and many private houses with doors and roofs of stone. A colossal head of Ashtereth, found by Porter, shows that this goddess was worshiped there.

Kenaz (“hunting” ) One of the “dukes” (sheikhs) of Edom ( Genesis 36:15; 1 Chronicles 1:53). Caleb and Othniel were of this race. The modern tribes of the Anezeh, the most powerful of all the Bedouins in Arabia, cover the desert from the Euphrates to Syria, and from Aleppo to Nejed. Their army numbers 90,000 camel-riders and 10,000 horsemen.

Kenezite ( Genesis 15:19. ) An ancient tribe of unknown origin, inhabiting the land promised to Abraham, east of Palestine.

Kenite (“smirk” ) A tribe much mentioned, but whose origin is not recorded. They may have been a branch of Midian, for Jethro is a Kenite, and lived in Midian when first known by Moses. The are the most noted of this people. Jael, who killed Sisera, was a Kenite ( Judges 4:11).

Kenizzites (“hunter” ) ( Genesis 15:19). Lost.

Kerenhappuch (“paint-horn” ) Daughter Job ( Job 42:14). Horn of plenty. .

Kerchiefs ( Ezekiel 13:18,21 ). .

Kerioth (“cities” ) ( Joshua 15:25). 1. Judah, south. Kuryetein (“two cities”), 15 miles south of Hebron. The town from which Judas Iscariot was named. 2. A town in Moab, mentioned with Dibon, Bozrah and others ( Jeremiah 48:24). Now Kureiyeh, six miles east of Busrah on the west slope of the Hauran. There are many ruined columns; and a cistern having a stone roof supported on a triple row of columns, under which are benches, rising like a theater. A Greek inscription on one of the benches dates the cistern A.D. 296. The houses had walls four to eight feet thick, of solid basalt, with roofs of slabs of stone reaching across from wall to wall. In Amos 2:2, Kirioth means the “cities of Moab.”

Keros (“weaver’s comb” ) A Nethinhn, who returned with Zernbbabel ( Ezra 2:44).

Kettle (“dud” ) A vessel used for sacrifices or cooking ( 1 Samuel 2:14).

Keturah (“incense” ) Wife of Abraham ( Genesis 25:1). . The sons of Keturah were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.

Keturah herself is lost to history.

Key (“mafteah” ) Keys are sometimes very large in the East, two feet or more long. It is a symbol of authority ( Isaiah 22:22, etc.).

Kezia (“cassia” ) Daughter of Job ( Job 42:14).

Keziz, the Valley of (“destruction” ) A city of Benjamin, named Emekkeziz, and mistranslated in Joshua 17:21. Near Jericho. Lost.

Kibroth Hattaavah (“graves of lust” ) Station of the wandering.

Kibzaim (“two heaps” ) In Ephraim ( Joshua 21:22). .

Kid Young goat. . Kidron (“turbid” ) In the original Hebrew it is always called a dry water-course or wady (nachal . ). East of the walls of Jerusalem, at the foot of Olivet ( 2 Samuel 15:23; John 18:1). Now called the Valley of Jehoshaphat. It is in most places narrow, with steep, naked banks, and only a few strips of cultivable land. The Tyropoeon joins it at the Pool of Siloam, and the Hinnom at En Rogel, all three forming what is now called the Wady en Nar (“fire”), leading to Mar Saba and the Dead Sea. The whole valley is filled with tombs and graves. The most ardent desire of every dying Jew (or Muslim) of Palestine is to be buried there. Dr. Barclay mentions a fountain in the north end of the valley, flowing in winter several hundred yards, and sinking out of sight, probably running under ground, being covered many feet deep by rubbish, as proved by recent digging through the accumulation, near the temple area (see ), and heard murmuring at En Rogel, and also two miles down the valley, where water was found in midsummer. William of Tyre and Brocardus heard the subterranean waters in their day. Where the path from Stephen’s Gate crosses the valley there is a bridge, with one arch 17 feet high, near which are the church and tomb of the Virgin and the garden of Gethsemane. Another bridge, on a single arch, crosses near the Absalom tomb. The temple area wall is here 150 feet above the bottom of the valley.

Kiln . Brick.

Kinah (“lamentation” ) Judah, next to Edom ( Joshua 15:22). Lost. Kindred Relatives.

King (melech; Greek: basileus ). A title applied to men. Sometimes it is used of men who were only leaders or rulers of one city, as the king of Sodom, etc. This form of government seems to be native to the East. The will of one man rather than the union of many. The true king of Israel, as designed by Moses, was God; and that form of government is called a theocracy (Greek: theos, god ). Moses saw that a visible king would be wanted, and provided for such a state ( Deuteronomy 17:14-20). The king was to be anointed with oil ( <091001> Samuel 10:1), and was called, therefore, “the Lord’s anointed.” This was an ancient Egyptian custom. . Kingdom of God The divine kingdom of Jesus the Christ. Matthew only says “kingdom of the heavens” for the state of things to be expected at the coming of the Messiah, as soon as converted sinners become citizens of the heavenly kingdom ( Revelation 1:6). For , see .

King’s Dale ( Genesis 14:17; 2 Samuel 18:18 ). (shaveh, “level place” ) The Plain of Rephaim. Absalom’s pillar, a name given to a modern structure (of the later Roman age in style), is a mistake, for his pillar was reared up in a plain or broad valley (Emek . ). See the picture of Absalom’s Tomb, p. 2 of the book.

Kir (“a wall” ) Where the people of Damascus were carried by the king of Assyria ( Kings 16:9). Elam and Kir are mentioned together by Isaiah ( Isaiah 22:6). The river Cyrus, flowing from the Caucasus to the Caspian Sea, still bears its ancient name, Kur. But it is not yet known where the city or district was located. Kerend is offered, and also Carna, both cities in Media. Elam (which see) was near the Persian Gulf, and Kir may have been a variant name for Kish, the eastern Ethiopia.

Kir Haresh, Kir Haraseth, Kir Hareseth, Kir Heres ( “brick fort” ) and Kir Moab ( 2 Kings 3:25; Isaiah 16:7; Jeremiah 48:31,36). One of the chief fortified cities of Moab (“built of brick” — heres ). When Joram, king of Israel, invaded Moab, Kir was the only city not taken, and this was saved by the sacrifice by the king of Moab of his oldest son, on the wall ( <120301> Kings 3:27). Kerak (the modern name) stands on the top of a rocky hill, about 10 miles from the Dead Sea, and 3,000 feet above its level. It was at one time strongly fortified, on the top of a high hill, surrounded on all sides by a deep valley, and again enclosed by mountains higher than the town, from which heights the slingers threw stones into the city, as mentioned in 2 Kings 3:25. The entrances to the ancient city were only two, and tunneled through the solid rock for a hundred feet, on the north and south. On the western side stands the citadel, a strong building, built by the Crusaders, containing a chapel, on the walls of which are some rude paintings. On clear days Bethlehem and Jerusalem may be seen from here. Mr. Klein (of the Palestine Exploration, in 1868 found a Semitic monument in Moab, on which there is an inscription (translated by Mr. Deutsch, of the British Museum), giving an account of many cities named in the Bible, which king Mesha built, among which is Karkha (Kerak). This is the oldest monument in the Phoenician language that is known. It adds to our knowledge of that day. In 2 Kings 1:1, is a mention of a rebellion of Moab, which was put down by Israel and Judah. This stone gives particulars, not in the Bible, of the acts of the king of Moab; his conquest of cities: rebuilding others; his religious wars; and that he believed himself divinely guided by the god Chemosh. Almost the whole of the Greek alphabet is found on this stone, such as is in use now, and identical with the Phoenician, even including those letters which were supposed to have been added during the Trojan war; and also the Greek letter upsilon , which was supposed to have been added later. The most ancient letters are here shown (in the book) to be the most simple — mere outlines.

Kiriah (“town” ) Kerioth, Kartah, Kartan, Kiriathaim ( Ezekiel 25:9). In Moab. One of the “glories of the country,” named among the denunciations of Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 48:1,23).

Kirjath ( Joshua 18:28 ). 1. In Benjamin. Lost. 2. (“double city”). Reuben, a little south of Heshbon ( Numbers 32:27). It was a large Christian village in the time of Eusebius and Jerome. Kureiyat is a ruin near Jebel Attarus, south of Wady Zurka Main, south of which is a level plateau called el Koura (“plain”), which may be the Plain of Moab. It is one of the oldest of Bible cities ( Genesis 14:5). It was on the “Plain” (shaveh ) Kiriathaim that the Emims were smitten by the eastern kings who plundered Sodom. 3. A town of Naphtali ( 1 Chronicles 6:76). Kartan. 4. Hebron. It is supposed that Hebron was the ancient name, the Canaanites calling it Kirjath Arba on their taking possession, when the Israelites restored the ancient name. A tradition says the city was called Arba, or four, because Adam, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were buried there. But Joshua says Arba was a great man ( Joshua 14:15). 5. (“Baal’s city”), ( Joshua 15:60; 18:14). Kirjath Jearim. 6. Where Balaam was conducted by Balak to offer sacrifice ( Numbers 22:30). Kureiyat. 7. (“city of forests”), ( Joshua 9:17). One of the four cities of the Gibeonites, who tricked Joshua. Also Kirjath Arim, peopled after the Captivity ( Ezra 2:25). A boundary ( Joshua 15:9). The ark remained here 20 years after it was brought from Bethshemesh, until it was removed by David to Jerusalem (1 Samuel 7). Now Kuryet el Enab (“city of grapes”). The Danites pitched “behind Kirjath Jearim” on the eve of their expedition to Laish, and the name Mahaneh Dan (“camp of Dan”) remained for a long time after they left ( Judges 8:12). , where Jesus appeared after his resurrection ( Mark 16:12; Luke 24:13-35), is located here by recent scholars. The exploits of a noted robber sheikh who lived here has given it the name of Abu Gosh (“father of lies”) village. There are a few houses around an old convent (Minorite), and a Latin church, one of the most solidly built in Palestine. 8. (“city of palms”), ( Joshua 15:49). (“city of the book”). Judah. Also called Debir.

Kish (“a bow?” see , 1:3 ). 1. Father of Saul 2 ( 1 Samuel 10:21). 2. Son of Jehiel ( 1 Chronicles 8:30; 9:36). 3. Great-grandfather of Mordecai ( Esther 2:5). 4. Levite ( 1 Chronicles 23:21).

Kishi (KUSHAIAH ). A Merarite, ancestor of Ethan ( 1 Chronicles 6:44). 4.

Kishion (“hard” ) Issachar, in Esdraelon ( Joshua 19:20). Kedesh ( 1 Chronicles 6:72).

Kishon, the River ( Judges 4:7 ). Drains Esdraelon and neighboring hills, being fed by the large spring of water at Daberath (Deburieh) at the Northwest foot of Mount Tabor, and by another large fountain at En Gannim (Jenin), which is its most remote source; and also by the waters of Megiddo (a spring at Lejjun), running along the north base of Carmel. After receiving many small tributaries from the hills on each side, it enters the plain of Acre by the narrow pass between Harosheth (Tell Harotieth) and Carmel, just below which it receives Wady Malik, with the drainage from the plain of Zebulon (Buttauf), as far as Mount Kurn Hattin, Araba, and Jabel Kaukab, near Cana. Below this point it is fed by the very copious fountains (Saadiyeh) three miles southeast of Hepha (Caiffa), and others from under Carmel (Shaw), when it empties into the Bay of Acre near Caiffa, the last few miles only being a river with water the year round, flowing between banks of loamy soil fifteen feet high, with a stream 50 to 75 feet across. The whole system of tributaries above Harosheth are dry wadys through the summer or dry season. There are many historical associations belonging to this rivers referred to in other places. See Armageddon. (Land and Book, c. xxix).

Kison ( Psalm 83:9). Kiss (nashak; Greek: phileo ). The kiss is used to denote: 1. on the lips, affection; 2. on the cheek, respect or salutation; 3. a symbol of charity in the early Church ( Romans 16:6; Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 13:12, etc.); 4. on the beard, respect to age or authority; 5. on the forehead, condescension; 6. on the back, or palm, of the hand submission; as also to kiss the feet; 7. on the ground near, a mark of respect 8. to kiss the hand to an idol, worship ( 1 Kings 19:18; Hosea 13:2).

Kite (ayah, vulture, in Job 28:7 ). See page 124 in the book for the picture. A bird of prey ( Leviticus 11:14; Deuteronomy 14:13). The word ayah was probably the name of the species, and is well translated “kite”.

Kithlish ( Joshua 15:40 ). Judah, in the Shefelah, near Eglon. Lost.

Kitron ( Judges 1:30 ). The Canaanites were not driven out, but remained as tributaries. Lost.

Kittim ( Genesis 10:4; 1 Chronicles 1:7 ). .

Knife (chereb ), ( Joshua 5:2), sword; maakeleth ( Judges 19:29) tableknife; machalaphim\ ( Ezra 1:9) slaughter-knives; sakkin knife ( Proverbs 23:2). The most ancient historians mention knives of stone and of iron. The Easterns make little use of the knife at the table. Jeremiah speaks of a pen-knife ( Jeremiah 36:23). The razor was used to shave the head of the Nazarite ( Numbers 6:5, etc.), and the bodies of priests in Egypt (Herodotus 2:86).

Knop (captor, “crown”, Exodus 25:31 ). Imitation of the blossom of an almond tree; and a small gourd or cucumber (pekaim, “cucumbers”, in 1 Kings 6:18; 7:24). , on page 109 in the book. Fringes, tassels and borders were symbolical in the dress of the high priest and of the Jews generally.

Koa ( Ezekiel 23:23 ). Lost.

Kohath (“assembly” ) Son of Levi ( Genesis 46:11). He died aged ( Exodus 6:18). Moses and Aaron were of his line. The posterity of Kohath in the Exodus numbered 8,600 males, 2,750 being over 30. They (except Aaron and his sons) bore the ark and its furniture ( Numbers 3:31).

Kohathites Descendants of ( Numbers 3:27,30).

Koliah (“voice of Jah” ) 1. A Benjamite ( Nehemiah 11:7). 2. Father of Ahab ( Jeremiah 29:21).

Koph (“back of the head” ), (Psalm 119 ). .

Korah (“bald” ) 1. Son of Esau ( Genesis 36:5,14,18), one of the “dukes” of Edom. 2. Another duke, son of Esau ( Genesis 36:16). 3. Son of Hebron ( 1 Chronicles 2:43). 4. Son of Izhar, a Levite, and ringleader of a rebellion against Moses and Aaron; the only person of note in it. His sons were not guilty, and escaped his doom. Samuel the prophet was of this family ( 1 Chronicles 6:22.). Ten psalms bear their names in the titles, as choristers in the temple.

Korahite ( 1 Chronicles 9:19,31 ) Korhite, or Korathite, descendant of Korah.

Korahites, the Descendants of Korah 4 ( Numbers 26:58). Kore (“partridge” ) 1. A Korahite, ancestor of Shallum ( 1 Chronicles 9:19; 26:1). 2. Son of Imnah, an overseer of offerings ( 2 Chronicles 31:14). 3. ( 1 Chronicles 26:19). “Sons of Kore.”

Korhites, the Descendants of Korah 4 ( Exodus 6:24). .

Koz (“thorn” ) , , ( Ezra 2:61).