Keilah is commonly identilied with Khurbft Kiln, about 7 miles east of Eleutheroiiolis, and 1575 ft. above the sea. This is reconcilable with the statement in the OnviniustUon, that it is 17 miles (perhaps it should be 7, Jerome has it 8) from lyieutheropolis, on the road to Hebron ; but it is diHieult to think of so elevated a region a* in the .Shephelah (cf. Dillm. on Jos IS*'). Th. Unmmuiticun is cited, as well as later writings (Nicephorus, llUt. xii. 48, and Cassiodorus in Sozomen, Hist. vii. 29), as giving the tradition that the prophet Habakkuk was buried at Keilah, though other traditions say at Hukkok.
W. J. BSECHEU.
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KELAIAH
KEXITES
KELAIAH (n.i'j). — A Levite «lio li;ul luurrieel a foruign wile, Ezr 10^, calleil in 1 ICs t)^ Colius. In Ezr the gloss is added 'wliieli is Kelita' (in 1 Es, ' wlio was called Calitas' [which see]). Kelita ttpliears in Neli 8' as one of the Lentes who assisted Ei;ra in expounding the law (cf. 1 Es 9''*, Calitas), and his name occurs amongst the signatories to the covenant, Neh 10'°. It does not follow, liow- ever, that, because Kelaiah was also called Kelita, he is to be identilied with this Kelita, Siegfried- Stade think not.
KELITA See Kelaiah.
KEMUEL ('jwop).— The son of Nahor and father of Aram, Gn 22"' (contrast 10-'^ where Aram is son of Shem, and see Dillm. ad loc). Knobel proposed to connect Kemuel with Kamula in N. Mesopo- tamia, but this is pronounced by Dillmann to be out of the question. 2. Tlie prince («•;•;) of the tribe of Ephraim, one of the twelve commissioners for the dividing of the land, Nu 34*' (P). 3. The father of Uaahabaiah the ruler (tjj) of the Levites, 1 Ch 27".
KENAN (»'B). — Son of Enoch and father of Mahalelel, Gn 5»-" (AV Cainan ; but AVm, like RV, Kenan), 1 Ch I'-'. LXX has Kaiuiv, which reapjiears in Lk S"'- (WH read Kaiviii.), gi\ing Cainan (which see) of EV. The name Kenan is simply a variation of Cain (ps 'spear'). ' Haliivy (Eecherches Bibl. ix. 219) calls attention to the fact that Kfinftn was the name of a god among the Sabseans' (cf. Baethgen, Beitrdge, 127 f.). See Dillm. on Gn 5».
KENATH (n;p) is mentioned (Nu o2«) as having been captured by a clan of !\Iachir, which then gave it their own name of Nobah. Their occu- pation was only temporary, for Geshur and Aram (1 Ch 2^) reconquered Kenath with its daughter towns.
The Onom. (Lagarde, 269. 15, 296. 109) speaks of a village ' now called YiavaBa., lying iv Tpaxwn irX-rjaloii BoarpHi' ' ; and Jos. (BJ I. xix. 2) mentions a Kavat>d which in his time belonged to Coele-syria. In accordance with these indications, the site has been generally identified with cl-Kanawdt, a place on the western edge of the Hauran range which con- tains important ruins from the Roman and Chris- tian periods. The fullest description of its present condition is found in Merrill (East of Jordan, 3()- 4.S). If this be correct, Kenath offers an instance of the persistence of a native name during and in spite of a temporary alien occupation. The accuracy of this identification has been recently contested by, e.g., Socin (Bad.'' 313) and Moore (Comm. on Judges 8"). See, further, Dillm. on Nu 32^=.
A. C. Welch.
KENAZ (ijp). — The eponymof the Kenizzite clan, variously described in OT as the son of Elij>haz and grandson of Esau (Gn 36" R), as a ' duke' of Edom (Gn 36«P), as tlie father of Othniel (Jos 15" JE), and as the grandson of Caleb (1 Ch 4"). The Kenizzitea (AV Kenezites), who are named amongst the inhabitants of Canaan in patriarchal times (Gn 15" R), had probably their original settlements in Mt. Seir (which would account for K. being called a grandson of Esau or Edom), and from thence a branch migrated to the S. of Canaan (see Caleb). The Chronicler makes K. a descend- ant of Judah (1 Ch 4'»-i5).
KENITES (>}•??, 'Jpn; in Nu 24™, Jg 4" ps, ol KtKoioi, Kiratoi, Cinaius, Kaiti), first mentioned in Gn 15" along with the Kenizzites and Kadmonites of Edom. Balaam 'looked upon' them from tlie monntains of Moab, and punning upon the likeness
of their name to the Hebrew kin, ' nest,' declared thai tliough their 'nest' was 'in a rock' (Seld, perhaps the later Petra), they should be ' wasted ' * until Assliur should carry them away captive (Nu 24-'- -'2). Ace. to Jg l'", Uolmb, tlie father- in-law of Moses, was a Kenite, and his descendants ' went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, w hicli is in the south of .'Vrad ; and they went and dwelt among tlie people.' It was in this direction that the Jewish town of Kinah stood (Jos 15--). AVe find one of the Kenites, Ileber, separating himself from the rest of the tribe and camping in the northern part of Israel, near Kedesh, at the time of the overthrow of Sisera (Jg 4"- "). The Chronicler includes them among the ancestors of the great houses of Judah (iCh 2"); and Saul forewarned the Kenites of his intended attack on the Amalekites or Bediwin, as they had ' showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt' (1 S 1.5"). Similarly, when David pretended to Achish of Gatli that he had raided the enemies of the Philistines, he associates together the Israelites of S. Judah, the Jerah- meelites (1 Ch 2-'') and the Kenites (IS 27'"). Subse.|uently he sent presents out of the spoil wliich he had acquired to ' the elders of Judah who 'were in the cities of the Kenites' (IS 30-'). Hamnialh, the ancestor of the Kechabites, is also stated to have been a Kenite (1 Ch 2").