Kir-har'aseth (2 Kings iii, 25), Kir-har'eseth (Isa. xvi, 7), Kir-ha'resh (Isa. xvi, ll),Kir-lie'ies (Jer. xlviii, 31, 30). See Kik-Moab.
Kiriatha'im (Jer. xlviii, 1 , 23 ; Ezek, xxv, 9). See Kiujatiiaim.
Kiriathia'rius (KtpiaSiapioc v. r. KopiaSioi, Vidr;. Creurputros), a corrupt form (1 Esdr. v, 19) for Kirjalh- arini (Ezra ii, 25), or Kihjath-jeariji (Neh. vii, 29).
Kir'ioth (Amosii, 2). See Keriotii.
Kir' jath (Josh, xviii, 28). See KiEjAxn-jEARni ; also the following names, of which this is the first part.
Kirjatha'im (Hcb. Kiryallm'yim, n^T^^'^\^, two cit- ies, i. e. double-town; Sept. KapiaSraifi, but K«pio3f(/t in Numb.; >/ ttoXjc in Gen.; v. r. Kopinjf/t or Kapta- ^Ev in Jer. and Ezek.; ttoAic Trapa^aWaaaia [appar- ently mistaking the directive termination iTC^~ for D"'"] in Ezek. ; Auth. Vers. " Kiriathaim" in Jer. and Ezek.), the name of two places.
1. (3nc of the most ancient towns in the country east of the Jordan (see Ewald, Gesch. Isr. i, 308), as it was possessed by the gigantic Emim (Gen. xiv, 5), who were expelled by the Moabites (compare Deut. ii, 9, 10), and these, in their turn, were dispossessed by the Amorites, from whom it was taken by the Israelites. Kirjathaim was then assigned to Reuben (Numl). xxxii, 37 ; Josh, xiii, 19) ; but during the Assyrian exde the Moabites again took possession of this and other towns (Jer. xlviii, 1,23; Ezek. xxv, 9). Burckhardt (riY/rf/^, p.3(J7)found ruins, called Kl-Teim, which he conjectures to have been Kiria?/«n"w, the last syllable of the name being retained. This is somewhat doubtful, as the Christian village Ka- riatha or Koreiaiha (JLapiucu, KapirtSa) of Eusebius and Jerome (Onomasf. s. v.) is jilaced ten miles west of Mcdeba, whereas El-Tcim is lint two miles (Seetzeii places it at half an hour, Reise, i, 408). IMichaelis (Ori- ent, u. exer/. Bill, iii, 120 ; Siipjil. 2203 sq.) compares the modem city Kirjathctim, one day's journey from Pal- myra (Wood, ^?/i«s of Palmyra, p. 34); and BUsching (Erdb. xi, 6G8) adduces Kariuthaim (in Pliny, vi, 32, Carriata), a place in the desert of Arabia; but both these identifications are madmissible (Hamesveld, iii, 1G9). Ritter {Erdkundc, xv, 1185,1186) supposes that the Onomasticon confounds two places of the same name, one being the ancient city corresponding to El-Teim, north of the wady Zurka, and the other the Christian town, represented by the modem Kureyat, south of the same wady ; but we see no occasion for this, as the lat- ter place, the name of which fully agrees, lies at the re- quired distance (eleven miles, Seetzen, Reise, ii, 342) scwth-west of INIedeba (Porter, Handbook, p. 300), upon the southem slope of Jebel Attarus (perhaps referred to by Eusebius in the expression annexed to his descrip- tion, iTTi Tvv Bap IV, on the Baris, using the term in the sense of a fortress on a kill-top rather than alluding to a position beyond the valley Zurka-]\Iain, which Ritter, p. 578, fancifully conceives to be thus indicated from the abundance of mandrakes, fiaapac). See Kerioth, 2.
2. A city of refuge in the tribe of Naphtali (1 Chron. vi, 76) ; elsewhere (Josh, xxi, 32) called Kaktan (q. v.).
Kirjatli-ar'ba (Hebrew Kiryath'-Arba', T^'^p. "3"! Si, city of A i-ba ; Sept. TruXig 'ApjSbK, Gen. xxiii, 2 ; Judg. xiv, 15; xv, 13, 54; xx, 7; KaptaBaplSoic, Josh, xxi, 11 ; Judg. i, 10; ttuXiq toii TTf ^I'or, Gen. xxxv, 27; once with the art. "31X11 P^lp, Kiryath'-ha-Arha'; Septuag. Kapia^apfio v. r. Kapia^apjStk, Nch. xi, 25; Auth. Vers. " city of Arba," in Gen. xxxv, 27 ; Josh, xv, 13 ; xxi, 1 1), the original name of Hebron, in the moun- tains of Judah, so called from its founder, one of the Anakim, and inhabited under the same name after the exile. Hengstenberg, however, thinks that Hebron was the earlier name, and Kirjath-Arba only was imposed by the Canaanites {Beitr. iii, 187). Sir John Mandevillo (cir. 1322) found it still "called by the Saracens Kari- carba, and by the Jews Arbothu" {Early Travels, p. 161).
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It is a Jewisli gloss (first mentioned by Jerome) which interprets tiie latter part of the name ("3'IN;, arba, lleb. " four") as referring to the four great men buried there (the saints Adam, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ; so the Talmud, see Keil. ad loc. ; or the giants Anak, Aliiman, Sheshai, and Tolniai, according to Bochart, Canan,\,\).
Kir'jath-a'iini (Ezra ii, 25). See Kirjatii-Jea-
RIM.
Kir'jath-ba'al (Heb. Kiri/alh'-Ba'a!,ht^^-r'^^'p^ city of Baal; Sept. Kapui-bjiaaX), another name (Josh. XV, 00 ; xviii, 1-i) for Kiujatu-jeariji (q. v.). See
also liAALAII.
Kir'jath-hti'zoth (Ilcb. Kirtjath'-Chutsoth ', r;:"i ■? rijjn, city of streets ; Sept. iriAiiQ iiravXtiiJv), a city of 3Ioab to -vvhicli Balak took Balaam on his arrival to offer a preparatory sacrifice (Numb, xxii, 39). The "S'ulgate understands an extreme city of the territory of iMoab, as that on tlie border of Anion, where the king met his prophetic guest (verse StJ) ; but the two appear to have been different. Tlie citj' in question was prob- ably the capital of the jNIoabitish king, usually called KiK-^Io.VB, and here distinguished from other places of a similar name {Kirjath meaning simply " city") by an epithet indicative of its extent; compare the presence of the court and " high places of Baal," as well as the conspicuous situation of the city (verse 41), correspond- ing to that of Kerak. Porter, however (Murray's Hand- book- for Pal. p. 299 sq.), inclines to identify the place with the Keireyat on Jebel Attarus, and so with Knu- ATIIAIM (q. v.).