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Ke'nan (1 Chron. i, 2). See Caixan,
'K.e'n^th.(l\ch.Kenath',T':'^, possession; Sept. Ka- vd^), a city of Gilead, captured, with its environs, from the Canaanites by Nobah (apparently an associate or relative of .lair), and afterwards called by his name (Numb. xxxiii,42; compare .Judg.viii, 11); although in the ])arallel passage (1 Chron. ii, 23) the cai)ture seems not to be distinguished from the exploits of ,Tair him- self, a circum^ance that may aid to explain the appar- ent discrepancy in the number of villages ascribed to the latter. SeeJAiR. Eusebius and Jerome (O«owrts^ s. V.) call It Kanathd (Kava^u), and reckon it as a part of Arabia (Trachonitis). It is probably the Canatha (Kdi'a^a) mentioned by Ptolemy (v, 15, and 23) as a city of the Decapolis (v, 16), and also by Josephus ( War, i, 19,2) as being situated in Culi-Syria. In the time of the latter it was inhabited l>y Arabians, who defeated the troops led against them by Herod the Great. In the Peutinger Tables it is placed on the road leading from Damascus to Bostra, twenty miles from the latter (Relaiid, Pal. p. 421). It became the seat of a bishopric in the 5th century (id. ]i. G.s2). All these notices indicate some locality in tlu' llaurau (Auranitis) (ilcland.raldst. p. G81), where Burckhardt found, two miles northeast of Suweidah, the ruins of a place called Kunawat (Trav. in Syria, p. 83-G), doubtless the same mentioned by Kev. E. Smith (Robinson's /i'e«mrc7(es, iii. Append, p. 157) in the .lebel Hauran (see also Schwarz, Palest, p. "223). This situation, it is true, is rather-distant north-easterly for Kcnatli, which lay not far licyond .Togl)eliah ( .Fudg. viii, 11), and within the territory of Manasseh (Numb.
xxxiii, 39-42), but the boundaries of the tribe in this direction seem to have been quite indelinite. See Ma- NASSEH, East. The suggestion that Kenairat was Ke- nath seems, however, to have been lirst made by Gese- nius in his notes to Biu-ckhardt (A.D. 1823, p. 505). An- other Kenawat is marked on Van de Yelde's map about ten miles farther to the west. The former place was visited by I'orter {Damascus, ii, 87-115), who describe* it as "beautifully situated in the midst of oak forests, on the western declivities of the mountains of Bashan, twenty miles north of Bozrah. The ruins, which cover a space a mile long and half a mile wide, are among the luiest and most interesting east of the Jordan. They consist of temples, palaces, theatres, towers, and a hip- podrome of the Roman age ; one ox two churches of ear- ly Christian times, and a great number of massive pri- vate houses, with stone roofs and stone doors, which were jirobably built by the ancient Rephaim. The city walls are in some places nearly perfect. In front of one of the most beautiful of the temples is a colossal head of Ashteroth, a deity which seems to have been wor- shipped here before the time of Abraham, as one of the chief cities of Bashan was then called Ashteroth-Kar- naim (Gen. xiv, 5). Kunawat is now occupied by a few families of Druses, who find a home in the old houses" {Handbook for Palest, p. 512 sq. ; comp. Ritter, Pal. and Syr. ii, 931-939; Buckingham, Travels amonij the Arab Tribes, p. 240).
Ke'naz (Ileb. Kenaz', 13 p, hunter ; Sept. Ktj/t^, but in 1 Chron. i, 3G v. r. K^^{^), the name of three or four men.
1. The last named of the sons of Eliphaz, Esau's first- born ; he became the chieftain of one of the petty Edom- itish tribes of Arabia Petraja (Gen. xxxvi, 11, 15; 1 Chron. 1,36). B.C. post 1905. "The descendants of Esau did not settle within the limits of Edom. The Itu- rreans migrated northward to the borders of DamasciLs; Amalek settled in the desert between Egypt and Pales- tine; Teman went westward into Arabia. We are jus- tified, therefore, in inferring that Kenaz also may have led his family and followers to a distance from Mount Seir. Forster maintains (Geor/raphy of Arabia, 11,43) that the tribe of Kenaz, or Al-Kenaz with the Arabic article prefixed, are identical with the Lnkeni or Lteeni of Ptolemy, a tribe dwelling near the shores of the Per- sian Gulf {Geoy. vi, 7), and these he would further iden- tif}' with the iEnezes (pioyjCTly Anezeh), the largest and most powerful tribe of Bedawhi in Arabia. It is possible that the Hebrew Koph may have been changed into the Arabic Ain; in other respects the names are identical. The ^Enezes cover the desert from the Euphrates to Sj'ria, and from Alejipo on tlie north to the mountains of Nejd on the south. It is said that they can bring into the field 10,000 horsemen and 90,000 carael-riders, and they are kirds of a district some 40,000 square miles in area (Burckhardt, Xotes on the Bedouins and Waha- bys, 1 sq. ; Porter, Handbook for Syria and Palest, p. 536 sq.)" (Kitto). See Kexizzite.
2. Successor of Pinon, and predecessor of Teman among the later Edomitish emirs ("dukes"), who ap- pear to have been contemporary with the Horite kings (Gen. xxxvi, 42 ; 1 Chron. i, 53). B.C. considerably ante 1G58. See Esau.
3. The younger brother of Caleb and father of 0th- niel (afterwards judge), who married Caleb's daughter (Josh. XV. 17 ; Judg. i, 13) ; he had also another son. Se- raiah (1 Chron. iv, 13). B.C. post 1698. On account of this double relationship Caleb is sometimes called a Kksezite (Numb, xxxiii, 12; Josh, xiv, 6, 14), whence some have maintained that he was the son rather than brother of Kenaz.