Kabzeel

Kabzeel
קַבְצְאֵל‎
Kabzeel is located in Israel
Kabzeel
Kabzeel
Coordinates: 31°17′10.284″N 34°55′56.46″E / 31.28619000°N 34.9323500°E / 31.28619000; 34.9323500
CountryIsrael
RegionDue S of Judah, on border of Edom;
poss. located ≈ 10 km (6 mi) ENE of Beer-sheba.

Kabzeel (Hebrew: קַבְצְאֵל, romanized: Qavṣəʾel, lit. 'God gathers') is a Hebrew Bible place name. It was the most remote city of Judah; located in southern Judah on the border of Edom (Idumaea) (Joshua 15:21). The location is tentatively identified with Khirbet Hora[1] (Horvat Hur), about 10 km (6 mi) ENE of Beersheba. Kabzeel was the birthplace of Benaiah, one of David's chief warriors (2 Samuel 23:20; 1 Chronicles 11:22).[2] Following the Exile, it was resettled under the name Jekabzeel (Hebrew: יקַּבְצְאֵל, romanized: Yəqqavṣəʾel).[3]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ ISBE 2009, p. 1-K: Yohanan Aharoni suggested Khirbet Hora as a possible location for Kabzeel, in his 1975 revised edition of The Land of the Bible: A Historical Geography.
  2. ^ Gesenius 1860, p. 362.
  3. ^ Eerdmans 2000, p. 759.

References

  • Eerdmans, David Noel Freedman, ed.-in-chief; Allen C. Myers, associate ed.; Astrid B. Beck, managing (2000). Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI [etc.]: Eerdmans. p. 759. ISBN 9789053565032.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Gesenius, Wilhelm (1860). Gesenius's Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon. Samuel Prideaux Tregelles. p. 362.
  • ISBE, general editor; Geoffrey W. Bromiley, general editor; associate editors, Everett F. Harrison, Roland K. Harrison, William Sanford (2009). The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ([Fully rev.]. ed.). Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans. p. 1-K. ISBN 9780802837851. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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