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Bible Encyclopedias
Camon
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or (Hebrews Kamon', קָמוֹן , perhaps full of stalks or grain; Sept. Καμών v. r. ῾Ραμνών ), the place in which Jair (q.v.) the Judge was buried (Judges 10:5). As the scriptural notices of him all refer to the country east of Jordan, there is no reason against accepting the statement of Josephus (Ant. v. 7, 6) that Camon (Καμῶν ) was a city of Gilead. In support of this is the mention by Polybius (v. 70, 12) of a Crmus (Καμοῦς, for Καμοῦν ) in company with Pella and other trans-Jordanic places taken by Antiochus (Reland, Palcest. p. 679; Ritter, Erdk. 15:1026). Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s.v. Καμών, Camon) evidently confound it with the Cyamon (Judith 7:3) in the plain of Esdraelon; and this has misled Schwarz (Palest. p. 233). It is possibly the modern Reimun (comp. the Sept. reading Rhamon), four and a half miles west-north-west of Jerash or Gerasa (Van de Velde's Map).
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Camon'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/c/camon.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
