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Kinah

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Easton's 1897ISBE 19152 verse references

Easton's 1897

An elegy, a city in the extreme south of Judah (Josh. 15:22). It was probably not far from the Dead Sea, in the Wady Fikreh.

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · public domain

ISBE 1915

ki'-na (qinah): An unidentified town on the southern boundary of Judah, toward Edom (Jos 15:22). The word qinah means "elegy," "dirge," "lament for the dead." The name, however, may have been derived from the Kenites, qeniy, who had settlements in the South (1Sa 27:10, etc.).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · public domain

In Scripture

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