Kedar
“blackness; sorrow” Hitchcock's 18699 mentions in 5 books, most in Isaiah (4)
Where it is
27.40° N, 37.70° E · Located through Arabia
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Mentioned most in
Counted from 9 references · STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0
Every mention
9 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
Psalms1 mention
Song of Solomon1 mention
Isaiah4 mentions
Isaiah 21:16For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,Isaiah 21:17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”Isaiah 42:11Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!Isaiah 60:7All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house.
Jeremiah2 mentions
Jeremiah 2:10For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.Jeremiah 49:28Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck, Yahweh says: “Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.
What the dictionary says
Dark-skinned, the second son of Ishmael (Gen. 25:13).
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · Public domain