limitation imposed upon a power or a knowledge that was His by right (cf. Gore, ubi infra, p. 2)H- f)ttley, IncariHilion, ii. 291), ' He willed not to use His power, not to use His knowledge,' i» a surer formula than ' He could not.'
(h) It has been also applied to limitations im- po.sed upon the Incarnate Christ with respect to His divine attributes as exercised within the divine sphere of action during the incarnate life ; so that kenosis will inijily the ab.solute or partial cessation of the Word's cosmic functions while He was incarnate. On this point, again, the Bible supplies no clear teaching, though the language of He V {Civ . . . ipipijiv . . . iKa.$iacv) seems to imjjly a permanence of cosmic functions ; and such a ces.sa- tion conflicts not only with the general stream of Christian theology, but witli the conception of the unchangeable character of the divine nature.
LlTKfiATCKB.— Tlie beat exegesis of Ph 27 is to be found In GitToni. Ttte fncarnation (18U7), (cf. also Lij;htfoot, ad loc). For the later theolotjioil usage, cf. Bright, Wai/inark« in Church liUtorij (1894), Appendix G ; Gore, Di8gertation)t (1895), pp. 71- 21»'2 ; Bnice, UumUiation of ChrUl (lS8i»), Lectures li.-iv. ; Powell, Principle of the Iticamatwn{\69ii); Mason. Conditions 0/ our Lont't Li/e on Earth (18%) ; Hall, Kenotic Theoru (1898).
W. Lock. KERAS (KTjpds, AV Ceras), 1 Es 5».— Head of a family of temple servants who returaed with Zerubbabel ; called Keros (o^p, A Krjpaoj, B KaS>)s), Ezr 2", Neh 7" (NA Kcipas, B -/w).
KERCHIEFS (nin=;5, ^7ri,84Xaia) are mentioned only in Ezk IS""', where a woe is pronounced upon the false prophetesses ' who sew bands (or fillets, not pillows as in AV, RV) upon all joints of the hand, and make kerchiefs for the heads of (persons of) every stature, to hunt souls.' The pa.ssage is somewhat oliscure, but the reference appears to be undoubtedly to some species of divination practised in ortier to obtain oracles. The ninp:i5 seem to have been large veils or cover ings thrown over the head and reaching do\vn to the feet (and this is the original meaning of the Eng. word), and were adapted to every stature. The wearer of the fillets and ' kerchiefs ' was in this way introduced into the magical circle (cf. David- son's and Bertholet's notes in their Comm. ad loc). Hitzig notes the analogy of the later practice of wearing tUp/iillim and putting on the large {allith at prayer (cf. Mt 23»).
In the Wyclifite Bible of 1382 occnrs the fonn ' couercheues ' (Is 3**, changed in 1388 into ' ker- cheues'), which shows the derivation from Fr. couvre-chef (couvrir to cover, cAc/the head). The Geneva version has ' vailes upon the head ' in the text, but in marg. ' kerchefes to couer their heades.' The Bishops' Bible first pves ' kerchiefes' in the text. When the derivation of the word was ob- scured, it came to be used more generally for any small piece of dress. In this sense the word is still familiar in 'handkerchief,' though both ' kerchief itself and its other comjiound 'neckerchief are nearly gone out (see Craik, Eng. of Shnks. 176).
J. Hastings.
KERB.— See Text ok Old Testament.
KEREN-HAPPUCH (lp^T^B, literally ' horn of antimony,' so Vulg. ; LXX strangely "A^oXtffiaf «/pat, 'bom of Amidtluea,' i.e. plenty). —The youngest daughter bom to Job in his second estate of pros|)erity (Job 42"). The name is indicative of lieautiful eyes, from the dye made of antimony, used to tinge the eyelashes (cf. Dillm. or Davidson, ad loc. ; and see 2 K i)*, Jer 4*').
W. T. Davison.
KERIOTH (ni-!p)._A place in Moah, Jcr 48** (in V.*' with art. n^ifp, KVm 'the oitie-s'). Am '2'. It is mentioned on the .Moatiite Stone, 1. 13, whirn Mesha declares that he dragged * the kltar-heu-th
of Davdoh (?) before Chemosh * in ^eriyyoth'. Its Bite is uncertain, but weighty arguments have been adduced in favour of identifying it witli Ar (wh. see), the capital of Moab (Is 15'), wliich was prob- ably situated in the valley of the Arnim, somewhere on the N. or N.E. border of Moab (see Driver on Am 2» and Dt •2»- ", and of. liuhl, GAP 270, who identifies Kerioth, however, not with Ar, but with Kir — the latter of which again he identifies with Rabbath-moab, while he considers Ar to be the name not of a city, but of a district, Uiat, namely, to the south of the Arnon). J. A. Selisie.
KERIOTH-HEZRON d'o^in-rf-ip, LXX ol x4\«t Affepiii', AV ' Kerioth [and] Hezron). — A place in the Negeb of Judah (Jos 15-^ where it is added, ' which is Hazor.' See Hazor, No. 4, and Hezron, p. 379''). Kerioth-hezron should probably be iden- tified with the modern Jfarjetein, N.E. of Tell "Arfld. In all probability this was the birthplace of the traitor disciple Judas (wh. see), the name Jscariot being = nV-!p c"!< 'man of Kerioth.' This is much more plausible tlian the conjecture which connects Iscanot with Azkaroth of Midrash Bcre- shith rabba, cli. 98, which Schwarz (Das lieil. Land, p. 128) identifies with el-'Askar (Sychar?).
LmtRATURB.— Oudrin, Judie, lU. 180 f.; Robinson, BRF* U. 101; Buhl, GAP 182; Neubauer, Qiog. du Talm. 171, 277; Keim, Jestu qf Sazara, iii. 276 d. J. A, SELBIE.