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Smith's Bible Dictionary
(cities).
•A name which occurs among the lists of the towns in the southern district of Judah. (Joshua 15:25)
Supposed by some to have been the birthplace of Judas Iscariot.
•A city of Moab, named by Jeremiah only, (Jeremiah 48:24)
Keros
(curved), one of the Nethinim, whose descendants returned with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:44;
Nehemiah 7:47)
Kettle
a vessel for culinary or sacrificial purposes. (1 Samuel 2:14) The Hebrew word is also rendered
“basket” in (Jeremiah 24:2) “caldron” in (2 Chronicles 35:13) and “pot” in (Job 41:20)
Keturah
(incense), the wife of Abraham after the death of Sarah. (Genesis 25:1; 1 Chronicles 1:32) (B.C.
1860.)
Key
The key of a native Oriental lock is a piece of wood, from seven inches to two feet in length,
fitted with the wires or short nails, which, being inserted laterally into the hollow bolt which serves
as a lock, raises other pins within the staple so as to allow the bolt to be drawn back. (Keys were
sometimes of bronze or iron, and so large that one was as much as a man could carry. They are
used in Scripture as a symbol of authority and power. Giving keys to a person signifies the intrusting
of him with an important charge. (Matthew 16:19) In England in modern times certain officers of
the government receive, at their induction into office, a golden key.—ED.)
Kezia
(cassia), the second of the daughters of Job born to him after his recovery. (Job 42:14) (B.C.
1950.)
Keziz
(cut off), The valley of, one of the “cities” of Benjamin, (Joshua 18:21) and the eastern border
of the tribe.
Kibrothhattaavah
i.e. as in the margin, the graves of lust, a station of the Israelites in the wilderness, where,
growing tired of manna and desiring flesh, they murmured, and God sent them quails in great
abundance, but smote great numbers of them with a plague and they died. It is about three days
journey from Sinai, and near the Gulf of Akabah and the Wady el Hudherah (Hazeroth.)
Kibzaim
(two heaps), a city of Mount Ephraim, given up with its “suburbs” to the Kohathite Levites.
(Joshua 21:22) In the parallel list of (1 Chronicles 6:1) JOKBEAM is substituted for Kibzaim. ver.
(1 Chronicles 6:68)
Kid
[Goat]
Kidron, Or Kedron
(turbid), The brook, a torrent or valley, not a “brook,” or, as in the margin of Revised Version,
“ravine;” Gr. winter torrent. It was close to Jerusalem, between the city and the Mount of Olives.
it is now commonly known as the “valley of Jehoshaphat.” The channel of the valley of Jehoshaphat
is nothing more than the dry bed of a wintry torrent, bearing marks of being occasionally swept
over by a large volume of water. It was crossed by David in his flight, (2 Samuel 15:23) comp.
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