KADESH
HODSHL
ON THE ORONTES.— See Tahtim-
KADMIEL (SxiTi'ii!). — The name of a Levitical family which returned with Zerubbabel, Ezr 2*"= Neh 7'" (cf. 1 Es 5'-*). The expression which follows, namelj", 'of the children of Hodaviah ' (or Hod- evah), is apparently meant to limit the Kadmiel family to tnose members who belonged to the Hodaviah branch. In Ezr 3" (cf. 1 Es 5'"), in con nexion with the laying of the foundation of the temple, as well as in Neh 9*'- (the day of humilia- tion) and 10' (the sealing of the covenant), Kadmiel appears to be an individual. The name occurs further in Neh 12''- ^. In the last of these passage? we ou"ht certainly to read, on the strength oi parallel passages, ' Jesliua, Bani (or Binnui), Kadmiel ' instead of 'Jeshua Jere-Kadmiel.' Thi.* emendation is supported by the fact that sBA as well as Luc. have viol KaS^iiiX, implying an original 'n not p. See, further, Smend, Listen, p. JO, n. 10 ; Ryle, Ezra and Nehemiah, ad II. citt.
J. A. Selbie.
* In Dt 1. 24-8 there is no mention of these negotiations with Edom (Moore on Jg lliO).
t Kadenh BariieaQiev! Yorli, 1884); also PEFSt (1881) p. 210. The site discovered by Rowland is supported by Ritter, Schultz, and Palmer ; objected to by Robinson, Stanley, and others. It was not Wsited by the expedition of the Pal. kxplor. Fnnd of 1883-4, as it lay to the westward of the Arabah, beyond the line of sur\'ey by 'Ma.jor Kitchener, R.E., now Lord Kitchener o! Khartoum.
KADMOXITES
KARTAX
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KADMONITES, -K-ipn, KeXpuvvam, 'men of the F.iust,' only iji Gn 13'", inhaliitiints of the Syrian desert, possibly descendants of Kedeniah, the twelfth son of Ishmael (On 25"). Mentioned after the Kenites and Kenizzites, the K. are represented as occujiylng the district alonj; the eiustern border of Palestine, near the Dead Sea, which was also called the East Sea, 'jio-ipn c.n (Kzk 47'"). Their naiueoccvirs in the longest list of the nations which originally held possession of the territories promi.ied to Abraham. Usually .seven, sometimes only six, but here ten such nations are named. Ewald and many following him regard the K. as equivalent to the Bine ^ei/em, children of the East (wh. see), descendants (?<;n 2j'') of Abraham by Keturah (Gn 29', Jg "'^ 1 K 4*', Job 1», Is 11", Jer 49'«, Ezk 2o*- '"). In that case, K. would be the desig- nation of no particular tribe, but of the Keturiuan Arabs, as distinguished from the Islimaelites. The children of the East are represented in tlie passages referred to as occupying I'addan-aram, a-issociated with the Midianites and Aiiialekites, inhabiting Kcdar, neighbours and conquerors of the children of Amnion, coupled with the Egyptians in their fame for wisdom, and as Easterns contrasted with the I'liilistines who posses.sed the extreme west. Job is described as one of them. It seems better to regard the K. as a particular tribe like the other nations named in this list. Whether they are to be viewed as a branch of the Ishmaelitish or of the Ketura'an Arabs is not clear.
LlTERATUBR.— Kwnid, Uitlori/ o/ Imrael, I. 5.13, 314 (T., ii. 213 B. ; Dillinann, (Vtrifai*, lini;. tr. 1807, pp. 66, 187 ; Delitzsoh, Sev Ctnnin, &n iietiMis^ Ktliu. 18S9, ii. 127.
J. Macpher-son. KAIN (pB.i, properly Hakkain, A V Cain ; .\ 'A/teiM, Jos 15". — A town ot .ludali in the Hebron moun- tains, probably the present ruin Yukin, on a high knoll S.E. of Hebron, overlooking the Jeshimon. It is visible from Minych (see Uetiipeor), and may be the 'nest of the Ivenite' on a clill'lNu 24^'), vis- ible from the top of IVor. The Kenites inhabited this region. The tomb of Cain is now shown at this spot. Near it is the village of l>eni N'aim, the old name of which was Kcfr liurahuh, which is the Capliar Baruclia of the fourth cent. A.D. (Jerome, Paulit), suppo.sed to be the place where Abraham 'blessed' tJod ((in 18'--), and whence he saw the destruction of the cities of the Ciccar. See .S' IK/" vol. iii. sheet xxi. C. R. CONDEK.
KAIN (['S 'lance,' 'spear'). — A clan name := Kenites (wh. see), Nn 24-"'', Jg 4"- In 1 S IS'" Wellli. reads I'j instead of •;•?, and the same change is propo."e(l by Meyer (ZATW, i. 137, n. 3) for "ja 'i'i. in Jg 1'" (but see Moore, nd. loc. and on 4", and cf. Budde, Jiic/U. u. i'um. 9, OS).
KALLAI {'Ts; A KoXXol, U om.).— The head of the pric.-.tly family of Sallai, in the time of Jeshua the high priest, Nell 12^.
KAMON (;^2,7 ; B Ta^ytiy, APaMMw, Luc. KoX/rui-). — The burial-place of .lair, Jg lU*. The site has not been recovered. It was probably east of the Jordan ; probably identical, >Ioore thinks, with Kiimiin mentioned by I'olybius (V. Ixx. 12) in con- nexion with I'ello. Eusebius is certainlj- WTonj; in identifying it with Kninininin (modern Tell J^'eiinihi], 6 miles N.W. of Legio (I.ejjiin). See JoKN'EAM.
KANAH C^.B).— 1. A «-<'«/y (Sr;), forming the boiiiidiiry between Ephraini and Manas-seh, ter- minating on the W. at the sea and on the E. at En-taiipuah (Jos It!' 17'). This eiustern limit must have been near Shechem lying to the S. E., but it has not been identilied with anj' certainty. The