Difference between revisions of "Cyamon"

<p> (Κυαμών; Vulgate, Chelmon), a place named only in [[Judith]] 7:3, as lying in the plain (αὐλών, A. V. "valley") over against (ἀπέναντι ) Esdrelom. If by "Esdrelom" we may understand Jezreel, this description answers to the situation of the modern village [[Tell]] Kaimon, on the eastern slopes of Carmel, on a conspicuous position overlooking the [[Kishon]] and the great plain (Robinson, [[Later]] Res. p. 114; [[Van]] de Velde, Narrative, 1:330). The place was known to [[Eusebius]] (Καμμωνά ) and [[Jerome]] (Cimana), and is mentioned by them in the Onomasticon (s.v. Camon, Καμών ), where they identify it with CAMON, the burial-place of [[Jair]] the [[Gileadite]] (Judges 10:5). — Smith, s.v. Schultz assumes [[Cyamon]] to be identical with the modern Kumieh, south-east of Little [[Hermon]] (Zeitschr. d. morg. Ges. 3, 48); but Dr. Robinson (ut sup. p. 339) thinks this inconsistent with the true position (according to his location) of [[Bethulia]] (q.v.), and suggests that "Cyamon" may be only the [[Greek]] rendering (κύαμος ) of the Hebrews name (פּוֹל, pol, a bean) corresponding to the present Fuleh, on the east side of the plain of Esdraelon, a trace of which appears in the notices of the Crusaders (Wilken, Gesch. der Kreuzz. 3, 2:231, 267). But (See [[Jokneam]]). </p>