Difference between revisions of "Kirjath-Arba"

<p> '''Kirjath-arba''' (''Kir'Jath-Är'Bah'' ), R. V., ''Kiriath-Arba.'' The city of Arba, [[Arba]] being its founder, or the city of Four—Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Adam having been buried there—is mentioned &nbsp;Genesis 23:2; &nbsp;Genesis 35:27; &nbsp;Joshua 14:15; &nbsp;Joshua 15:13; &nbsp;Joshua 15:54; &nbsp;Joshua 20:7; &nbsp;Joshua 21:11; &nbsp;Judges 1:10; &nbsp;Nehemiah 11:25. See [[Hebron]] and Mamre. </p>

<p> (Hebrew Kiryath'- Aba', אִרְבִּע קרְיִת '', City Of Arba;'' Sept. πόλις Ἀρβόκ, &nbsp;Genesis 23:2; &nbsp;Judges 14:15; &nbsp;Judges 15:13; &nbsp;Judges 20:7; Καριαθαρβόκ '','' &nbsp;Joshua 21:11; &nbsp;Judges 1:10; πόλις τοῦ πεδίου, &nbsp;Genesis 35:27; once with the art. קַרְיִת הָאִרְבִּע, ''Kiryath'-Ha-Arba';'' Septuag. Καριαθαρβό v. r. Καριαθαρβόκ, &nbsp;Nehemiah 11:25; Auth. Vers. " city of Arba," in &nbsp;Genesis 35:27; &nbsp;Joshua 15:13; &nbsp;Joshua 21:11), the ori alame fHrnc, in the mountains 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. 3:'' 187). Sir John AMandevillo (cir. 1322) found it still " called by the [[Saracens]] Karicarba, and by the [[Jews]] Arbotha" (Early Travels, p. 161), It is a [[Jewish]] gloss (first mentioned by Jerome) which interprets the latter part of the name ( אִרְבִּע arba, Heb. "four") as referring to the four great meil buried there (the saints Adam, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; so the Talmud, see Keil. ad loc.; or the giants Anak, Ahiman, Sheshai, and Tolmai, according to Bochart, ''Canan,'' i, 1). </p>