Ges. (’es.) defends the appellative sense prin- cipes; but his etymology, though ingenious, must be owned to be far-fetched and improbable. See, further, Schrader, KAT? ad loc.; and especially Delitzsch, Paradies, pp. 234-6; and ef. art. K1R in the present volume. S. R. DRIVER.
KOHATH (n7p) is known to us only from P and the Chronicler. According to these writers, he was the second of the three sons of Levi (Ex 6%, Nu 317, 1 Ch 61-36 235). He had four sons, Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel (Ex 6%, Nu 3%, 1 Ch 62-18 231") and lived to the age of 133 years (Ex 61). In 1 Ch 6” Amminadab is said to be the son of Kohath, but this is probably a clerical error for Izhar (ef. 6%). His sister was Jochebed, the aunt and wife of Amram, and the mother of Moses (Ex 6”, Nu 26%). For the rebellion of his grandson Korah (Nu 16) see KorAH. Nothing further is related of Κα. personally, but we have fuller par- ticulars of the fortunes of his descendants. Their history falls into three periods—(1) the wilderness wanderings and the settlement in Canaan, (2) the monarchy, (3) the period after the Exile.
1. At the time of the census taken by Moses in the wilderness of Sinai the Kohathites were
* Or acc. to Winckler (Unterss. zur altor. Gesch. 131), like the Suti, a nomadic tribe of the Mesopotamian plains.
t Cf. KIB i. p. 5, where the ‘widespread Kuti’ and the ‘Suti’ are named in successive lines among the tribes subjugated by RammAn-nirari 1. (c. 1825 B.c.). So Sargon, l.c. (AJB ii. 55), mentions Gutium, three lines before Pukudu and διε,
t Bab. Exped. of the Univ. of Pennsylv. ix. (1898), p. 28; ef. PEFSt, Jan. 1898, p. 55.
§ Winckler (with Bredenkamp and Klostermann) would read Mp for Vp (with yyw as pr. name) in Is 225, This is favoured also by W. Max Miller (in art. Kir above); but the two names are difficult to harmonize with 1p7pd, except by giving this vero arbitrary meanings like ‘surround’ or ‘stir up.’
KOHELETH
KORAH, DATHAN, ABIRAM
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divided into four families, the Amramites, the Izharites, the MHebronites, and the Uzzielites (Nu 3”). The whole number of males from a month old was 8600 (3%), and between 30 and 50 years of age 2750 (4% 3: 87), Their position in the amp was on the side of the tabernacle southward (3%), and their chief at this time was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel (339), The office assigned to them by P during, the wilderness wanderings was the carrying of the sanctuary and its furniture, after it had been prepared for travel by Aaron and _ his ‘sons (351 44-5 1021). In this respect the Kohathites, the family of Aaron, had a more honourable office than that given to the descendants of Gershon the elder brother, and they consequently precede the Gershonites in Nu 4, Jos 21, 1 Ch6. 15,2Ch 29". In consequence of the greater holiness of their burden they carried it upon their shoulders (Nu 7°), in con- trast to the Gershonites and Merarites, to whom waggons and oxen were given (77). The Koha- thites are also mentioned at the time of the census taken by Moses and Eleazar in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, when the whole number of Levites was 23,000 (2657).
At the allotment of Levitical cities by Joshua and Eleazar after the settlement in Pal., thirteen cities out of the territories of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin were assigned to the Kohathite descend- ants of Aaron (Jos 214 13:19 [P]=1 Ch 6°7-®) ; and ten others out of the territories of Ephraim, Dan, and Western Manasseh to the rest of the Kohathites (Jos 215 30:38 [P]=1 Ch 65 67-70),
2. In the reign of David, as narrated by the Chronicler, we have several references to the Kohathites. The Kohathite family of Heman, together with the Gershonite family of Asaph and the Merarite family of Ethan or Jeduthun, were, ace. to this writer, specially set apart to administer the temple music (cf. 1 Ch 651-47 16%: # 251-7, and see HeEMAN). Inaccordance with this, at the bringing up of the ark into Jerus., of the large number of Kohathites who are said to have been present (1 Ch 15°: 8:.9.10)., Heman and certain others took
art in the music (15!7-19). Descendants of the our Kohathite families are mentioned as ‘heads of the fathers’ houses’ when David divided the Levites into courses (1 Ch 23), and in 1 Ch 961: 4-51 the particular offices held by descendants of the first three families are given in detail. Kohathites are spoken of as taking part in the temple ser- vices in the reign of Jehoshaphat (2 Ch 20"), and as co-operating with the other Levites in cleansing the temple under Hezekiah (291°-™).
3. In the period after the Exile we find very few traces of the Kohathite family. The Berechiah, son of Asa, son of Elkanah, mentioned in 1 Ch 9", was probably a Kohathite. So also were the ‘children of Shallum’ who accompanied Zerub- babel (Ezr 2”; cf. 1 Ch 91-9, Neh 12%, in last Meshullam).
The Kohathites (nap; in Nu 10%, 1 Ch 90} on77n) are mentioned Νὰ 3°7- 39 418. 84. 37 1021 26°7, Jos 21%, 1 Ch 6% 54 982, 2 Ch 20 9913, Also called ‘the sons of Kohath,’ Ex 618, Nu 315: 39 4% 415) 79, 1 Ch 6% 18- 22. 61. 68.70 155 9312, or ‘the children of Kohath,’ Jos 215-28, For their history see above. W. C. ALLEN.