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1. City on the Moabite plateau, assigned by Moses to Reuben; mentioned with Heshbon and Elealeh (Numbers 32:37) as well as with Kedemoth and other cities which had previously belonged to Sihon (Joshua 13:18-20). It is spoken of as a Moabite town in Jeremiah 48:23, Ezekiel 25:9, and in the inscription of Mesha (line 10), who, calling it "Ḳiryatan" (), declares that he had built or fortified it. Kirjathaim gave its name to the plain Shaveh Kiriathaim (Genesis 14:5). In the "Onomasticon" (s. KαριαΘαηίμ, KαρίαΘα) it is described as a Christian village situated ten Roman miles west of Medeba. It is identified by many scholars with the ruins now called "Ḳariyah," south-west of Machærus (see Conder in Hastings, "Dict. Bible," and the bibliography there given).
2. A city in Naphtali assigned to the Gershonite Levites (1 Chronicles 6:61 [A. V. 76]). In the parallel list of Joshua 21:32, it is called "Kartan."