Keziz
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
A city on the E. border of Benjamin ( Joshua 18:21). A valley (creek, or head of a valley expanding into a plain, triangular, W. of the Jordan, between the base of the hills and the Dead Sea) is named from it; from Kaatsats "to cut"; from the timber cut down in the large groves that anciently grew near Jericho and the Jordan and in the plain. This cutting of the forest before his eyes would naturally suggest John Baptist's image, "now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees" ( Matthew 3:10). DeSaulcy found such head of a valley still called Kaaziz.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [2]
Ke'ziz. (Cut Off). The Valley Of Keziz . One of the "cities" of Benjamin, Joshua 18:21, and the eastern border of the tribe.
Morrish Bible Dictionary [3]
This, though called a 'valley' in the A.V., is mentioned among the cities of Benjamin. Joshua 18:21 . It is better to regard the word for 'valley' as a part of the name, reading Emek-keziz.
Easton's Bible Dictionary [4]
Joshua 18:21
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
(Hebrew Ketsits', קְצַיוֹ , Abrupt; only with עֵמֶק , e'meki, valley, prefixed; Septuag. both Ἀμεκκασίς , Vulg. Vallis Casis), or rather Enmek-Keziz (Vale of Keziz), a city of the tribe of Benjamin, mentioned between Beth - hoglah and Beth-arabah ( Joshua 18:21), and therefore probably situated in a steep ravine of the same name leading to the valley of the Jordan. (See Bethbasi). M. De Saulcy found a small valley by the name of Kaaziz about an hour and a half distant from Bethany, in the direction of Jericho (Narrative, ii, 17),which he conjectures (p. 26) was the ancient Valley of Keziz. So also Van de Velde (Memoir, p. 328) calls it Wady el Kaziz.
