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Kirjathaim
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
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- 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. KαÏιαÎαηίμ, KαÏίαÎα) 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). - 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."
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Kirjathaim'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/k/kirjathaim.html. 1901.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Kirjathaim'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/k/kirjathaim.html. 1901.
