Kerioth

Cities in the Bible

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Kerioth (Hebrew: קְרִיּוֹת, Qǝrīyyōṯ) is the name of two cities mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. The spelling Kirioth appears in the King James Version of Amos 2:2.^[1] The name means "cities," and is the plural of the Biblical Hebrew קריה.

A town in the south of Judea (Joshua 15:25). Judas Iscariot was probably a native, hence his name "Iscariot". It has been identified with the ruins of El Kureitein, about 10 miles south of Hebron.
A city of Moab (Jeremiah 48:24,48:41), called Kirioth (Amos 2:2).

References

^ Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901) [1899]. "Kerioth". In T. K. Cheyne; J. Sutherland Black (eds.). Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political, and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible. Vol. 2, E–K. New York: The Macmillan Company.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Kerioth". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.