than the Kaaba itself. The walk round the Kaaba is outside this wall, but the closer to it the better. This wall is entitled El Ilattim, and is of solid stone, five teet in height and four feet in thickness. It is incased in wliite marble, and inscribed with prayers. The Kaaba has a double roof, supported by pillars of aloe-wood, and it is said that no bird ever rests upon it. The whole building is surrounded by an inclosure of columns, out- side which there are found three oratories, or places of devotion for different sects; also the eilifice containing the well Zem-Zem, the cupola of Abbas, and the Treas- ury. All these are further inclosed by a splendid colon- nade, surmounted by cupolas, steeples, spires, crescents, all gilded and adorned with lamps, which shed a briUiant lustre at night. These surroundings, between M-hich and the Kaaba run seven paved causeways, were first devised by Omar for the better preservation of the Ka- aba itself. According to Burckhardt, the same holy Kaaba is the scene of such indecencies as cannot with propriety be particularized ; indecencies wliich are prac- ticed not only with impunity, but publicly and without a blush. See Mohajimedaxisji.
Since the second year of the Hegira the Kaaba has been for the Mussidman world the Kebluh. or place to- wards which all Moslems turn in prayer. See Keblah.
See Nari-ative of a nigrimarje io El Medinah and J1/ecc«,byRichardF. Burton, vol. iii (Loud. 1855)-; Sale's Koran ; Muir, Life of Mahomet,\o\. ii and iii (London, 1858); Sprenger, /v//e q/jl/o/iome^, ii, 7; 'Lay . De iempli Meccani orifjine (Berlin, 1840, 4to). (J. T. G.)
Kaath. See Pelicax.
Kabbala. See Cabala.
Kabiler is the name of a nephew of Brahma, and one of India's greatest saints. His father was Karta- men, the ancestor of the Brahmin race. It is in. the person of this Hindu that Vishnu took the form of man some twenty-four different times. See YoUmer, Wor- tevhuch der Mytholofjie, p. 987.
Kab'zeel (Ileb. Kuhtseel', ?NS^p, yaihering of God. i. e. perhaps confluence of waters; Sept. Kfl/jiT€)jX in Joshua, elsewhere KajSaamjX v. r. Ko/3f irt /;\, etc.), a town on the extreme south of Judah, near Idunii^a, and therefore probably included witliin the territory of Sim- eon (.Josh. XV, 21) ; the native place of Benaiah (son of Jehoiada), one of David's chief warriors (2 Sam. xxiii, 20: 1 Chron. xi, 22). It was inhabited after the cap- tivit}' under the similar name of Jekabzeel (Neh. xi, 25). Its locality can only be conjectured as being near the edge of the Ghor, south of the Dead Sea (see Ma- sius. Comment, on Josh, ad loc). The name and vicin- ity are probably stiU represented by the wady El-Ku- seib, a small winter torrent running into the Dead Sea from the south (Robinson, Researches, ii, 497). Here the boundaries of Palestine, Edom, and Moab would con- verge, as is implied in the above Scripture references, and the region is still the resort of wild animals (Lynch, Jordan, p. 319; De Saulcy, Dead Sea, i, 298), and char- acterized by a deep fall of snow in winter (Burckhardt, Sjiria, p. 402), as is stated in the account of Beuaiah's adventure with the lion.
Ka'des.(Kf(c/;c\ a town of Palestine, apparently in the south (Judith i,9) ; probably the same as Kadesh- BAKNEA (q. v.).
Ka'desh (Heb. Kadesh', 'iJ'y^^, holy, perhaps as be- ing the site of some ancient oracle [compare the early equivalent name "fount of judgment"], Gen. xiv, 7; xvi, 14; XX, 1 ; Numb, xiii, 2(i ; xx, 1, 14, IG, 22; xxvii, 14; xxxiii, 36, 37; Deut. i,46; xxxii, 51; Judg. xi, 16, 17; Psa. xxix,8; Ezek. xlvii, 19 ; xlviii,28; Sept. Ko- C)]i:, but in Ezek. xlvii, 19, Kaclic v. r. Koo////) or, more fully, K A'DESH-BAK'NEA (Hebrew Kadesh '-Barne'd, "3"ia w"|1p, the latter portion of the name being re- garded by Simonis^ Lex. s. v., as compounded of "i3, open country, and i"_3, icandering ; Numb, xxxii, 8; xxiv, 4;
KADESH
KADI