HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7191
קִשְׁיוֹן
qish.yon — Kishion
Kishion = "hard" a town on the boundary of Issachar allotted to the Gershonite Levites Also named: qe.desh (קֶ֫דֶשׁ "Kedesh" H6943I)
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Kishion
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Hardness, a city of Issachar assigned to the Gershonite Levites (Josh. 19:20), the same as Kishon (21:28).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.