Bible Dictionary: Kenite

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Strong's Hebrew

2268. Cheber -- a Kenite, also several Israelites
... Cheber or Cheber. 2269 . a Kenite, also several Israelites. Transliteration: Cheber
or Cheber Phonetic Spelling: (kheh'-ber) Short Definition: Heber. ...
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8654. Tirathim -- a Kenite family
... 8653, 8654. Tirathim. 8655 . a Kenite family. Transliteration: Tirathim Phonetic
Spelling: (teer-aw-thee') Short Definition: Tirathites. ...
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7017. Qeni -- members of the tribe of Kenites
... 7016, 7017. Qeni or Qini. 7018 . members of the tribe of Kenites. Transliteration:
Qeni or Qini Phonetic Spelling: (kay-nee') Short Definition: Kenite. ... Kenite ...
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7014. Qayin -- a city in S. Judah
... as qayin (with a play upon the affinity to qanah); Kajin, the name of the first
child, also of a place in Palestine, and of an Oriental tribe -- Cain, Kenite(-s ...
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Library

The Marvels of Holy Scripture, --Moral and Physical. --Jael's Deed ...
... him in cold blood,"you certainly cannot help recoiling from the inspired decision
that, "Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be." But ...
/.../burgon/inspiration and interpretation/sermon vii the marvels of.htm

Hobab
... Hobab. Probably he was a man of about the same age as Moses, his brother-
in-law, and a son of Jethro, a wily Kenite, a Bedouin Arab. ...
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Women who Saved a Nation
... Now Heber the Kenite had left the Kenites, the children of Jethro the father-in-
law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak which is near ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/women who saved a nation.htm

Canaan
... Judah had become a distinct and powerful tribe, formed out of Hebrew, Kenite,
and Edomite elements, and its frontier adjoined Philistia. ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter ii canaan.htm

False Civilization
... They were not Israelites, but wild Arabs, a branch of the Kenite tribe, which
claimed"at least its chiefs"to be descended from Abraham, by his wife Keturah ...
/.../kingsley/discipline and other sermons/sermon vi false civilization.htm

Deborah's Song
... 4. THE RETRIBUTION. Strophe. Men. Blessed above women shall Jael be, the wife of
Heber the Kenite, Blessed shall she be above women in the tent! ...
/.../various/select masterpieces of biblical literature/iv deborahs song.htm

The Coast of the Asphaltites, the Essenes. En-Gedi.
... for the places, not the men:"we might otherwise begin the history of the Essenes
from those words, Judges 1:16: "And the sons of the Kenite, Moses' father-in ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 6 the coast of.htm

How the Canaanites Brought the Israelites under Slavery for Twenty ...
... At last Sisera, as soon as he saw himself beaten, fled away, and came to a woman
whose name was Jael, a Kenite, who received him, when he desired to be ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 5 how the canaanites.htm

Balaam
... Nevertheless, the Kenite shall be wasted, till Asshur shall carry thee away
captive.' 'Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!'. ...
/.../kingsley/the gospel of the pentateuch/sermon xiv balaam.htm

The Training of a Statesman.
... (Judg.1:16.) It was Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite (Judg.5:24), who rendered
the Hebrews a signal service by slaying Sisera, the fleeing king of the ...
/.../kent/the making of a nation/study viii the training of.htm

Thesaurus

Kenite (9 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Kenite (9 Occurrences). ... Numbers 24:21 He looked at the
Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, "Your dwelling place is strong. ...
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Rechabites (4 Occurrences)
... dwelt among them. Moses married a Kenite wife (Judges 1:16), and Jael was
the wife of "Heber the Kenite" (4:17). Saul also showed ...
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Heber (13 Occurrences)
... Passing over. (1.) Son of Beriah and grandson of Asher (Genesis 46:17; 1 Chronicles
7:31, 32). (2.) The Kenite (Judges 4:11, 17; 5:24), a descendant of Hobab. ...
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Kenites (8 Occurrences)
... Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, is called "the priest of Midian" in Exodus 3:1; Exodus
18:1; but in Judges 1:16 he is described as a Kenite, showing a close ...
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Jael (6 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Mountain-goat, the wife of Heber the Kenite (Judges
4:17-22). When the Canaanites were defeated by Barak ...
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Hobab (3 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Beloved, the Kenite, has been usually identified
with Jethro (qv), Exodus 18:5, 27; comp. Numbers 10:29, 30. ...
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Kain (2 Occurrences)
... There is, too, apparently a reference to this place in Numbers 24:21, 22: "And he
looked on the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy ...
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Rechab (13 Occurrences)
... where they were still living when the Books of Samuel were written (2 Samuel 4:3).
(2) The more prominent of the men bearing this name was a Kenite (see KENITES ...
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Sisera (18 Occurrences)
... plain of Esdraelon. After all was lost he fled to the settlement of Heber
the Kenite in the plain of Zaanaim. Jael, Heber's wife ...
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Zaanannim (2 Occurrences)
... It was a place on the southern border of the territory of Naphtali (Joshua),
and near it the tent of Heber the Kenite was pitched (Judges). ...
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Bible Concordance

Kenite (9 Occurrences)

Genesis 15:19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
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Numbers 24:21 He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, "Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 24:22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
(KJV BBE DBY WBS YLT NIV)

Judges 1:16 The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
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Judges 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
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Judges 4:17 However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Judges 5:24 "Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 27:10 Achish said, "Against whom have you made a raid today?" David said, "Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites."
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Subtopics

Kenite

Related Terms

Rechabites (4 Occurrences)

Heber (13 Occurrences)

Kenites (8 Occurrences)

Jael (6 Occurrences)

Hobab (3 Occurrences)

Kain (2 Occurrences)

Rechab (13 Occurrences)

Sisera (18 Occurrences)

Zaanannim (2 Occurrences)