H7152G

קְרִיּוֹת

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Kerioth

§ Kerioth = "cities" a town in the southern district of Judah

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

קרִיּוֺת proper name, of a location (formed as plural intensive from קִרְיָה?); —

1. in Judah Josh 15:25 (αἱ πόλεις; whence, as supposed, Judas אִישׁ קְרִיּוֺת), perhaps †aryatên, approximately 12 miles south of Hebron, BuhlGeogr. 182.
2. in Moab, Καριωθ, αἱ πόλεις; MI13 קרית: Jer 48:24, ׳הַקּ vJer 48:41; Amos 2:2 perhaps = Ραββαθ Μωαβ = Μοαβ = Αρεοπολις (Euseb., see LagOnom. 277, 60 and others), modernRabba, approximately 11 miles south of Arnon, compare BuhlGeogr. 270.


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