Camon

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Judges 10:5Joshua 12:221 Kings 4:12

Holman Bible Dictionary

Kamon

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

CAMON . See Kamon.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Town where Jair was buried, probably in Gilead. Judges 10:5 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ca'mon. (full of grain). The place in which Jair, the judge, was buried. Judges 10:5.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kā´mon ( קמון , ḳāmōn , "standing-place," Judges 10:5 the King James Version). See Kamon .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrews Kamon', קָמוֹן , perhaps full of stalks or grain; Sept. Καμών v. r. ῾Ραμνών ), the place in which Jair (q.v.) the Judge was buried (Judges 10:5). As the scriptural notices of him all refer to the country east of Jordan, there is no reason against accepting the statement of Josephus (Ant. v. 7, 6) that Camon (Καμῶν ) was a city of Gilead. In support of this is the mention by Polybius (v. 70, 12) of a Crmus (Καμοῦς, for Καμοῦν ) in company with Pella and other trans-Jordanic places taken by Antiochus (Reland, Palcest. p. 679; Ritter, Erdk. 15:1026). Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s.v. Καμών, Camon) evidently confound it with the Cyamon (Judith 7:3) in the plain of Esdraelon; and this has misled Schwarz (Palest. p. 233). It is possibly the modern Reimun (comp. the Sept. reading Rhamon), four and a half miles west-north-west of Jerash or Gerasa (Van de Velde's Map).