Kenites
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possession; purchase; lamentation
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
KENITES.A nomadic tribe, closely connected with the Amalekites (wh. see), and probably indeed a branch of them, but having friendly relations with Israel, and ultimately, it seems, at least in the main, absorbed in Judah. Hobab, Moses father-in-law (Jdg_1:16; Jdg_4:11 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ), who had been invited by Mosesand had doubtless accepted the invitationto he a guide to Israel in the wilderness (Num_10:29-32), was a Kenite; and his descendants came up from Jericho with the tribe of Judah into the S. part of their territory (Arad is about 17 miles S. of Hebron), though afterwards, true to their Bedouin instincts, they roamed beyond the border and rejoined their kinsmen, the Amalekites, in the N. of the Sinaitic Peninsula (Jdg_1:16; read in this verse, with MSS of LXX [Note: Septuagint.] , the Amalekite for the peoplethree letters have dropped out in the Heb.). When Saul, many years later, attacked the Amalekites, he bade the Kenites separate themselves from them, on the ground that they had shown kindness to Israel at the time of the Exodus (1Sa_15:6,alluding doubtless to Hobabs guidance, Num_10:29-32). In Jdg_4:11 Heber the Kenite is mentioned as having separated himself from the main body of the tribe, and wandered northwards as far as the neighbourhood of Kedesh (near the Waters of Merom). From 1Sa_27:10; 1Sa_30:29 we learn that in the time of David there was a district in the S. of Judah inhabited by Kenites; it is possible also that Kinah, in the Negeb of Judah (Jos_15:22), and Kain in the hill-country (Jos_15:57), were Kenite settlements. The Rechabites, with whom the nomadic life had become a religious Institution (Jer_35:1-19), were Kenites (1Ch_2:55). In Gen_15:19 the Kenites are mentioned among the ten nations whose land was to be taken possession of by Israel; the reference is doubtless to the absorption of the Kenites in Judah. In Num_24:21 f. Balaam, with a play on the resemblance of the name to the Heb. kçn, nest, declares that though their nest is among the rocky crags (namely, in the S. of Judah), they would in the end be carried away captive by the Assyrians (Kain in Num_24:22 is the proper name of the tribe of which Kenite Is the gentilic adj.; cf. Jdg_4:11 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] . Observe here that the oracle on the Kenites follows closely upon that on the Amalekites).
The word kain means in Heb. a spear (2Sa_21:16), and in Arab. [Note: Arabic.] an iron-smith; in Aram, also the word corresponding to Kenite denotes a metal-worker; it has hence been conjectured (Sayce) that the Kenites were a nomad tribe of smiths. There is, however, no support for this conjecture beyond the resemblance in the words.
S. R. Driver.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A Midianite race, for Jethro the Kenite is called priest prince of Midian (Exo_2:15-16; Exo_4:19; Jdg_1:16; Jdg_4:11). The connection with Moses explains their continued alliance with Israel, accompanying them to Jericho "the city of palm trees" (Jdg_1:16; compare 2Ch_28:15), thence to the wilderness of Judah, where "they dwelt among the people" (Israel), realizing Moses' promise to Hobab, whose name appears slightly altered as that of a wady opposite Jericho (Num_10:32). (See HOBAB.) Hence Saul in a friendly spirit warned them to leave the Amalekites whom he was about to destroy (1Sa_15:6), and David sent presents to them, having previously pretended to Achish that he had invaded their southern border (1Sa_27:10; 1Sa_30:29). (See HEBER; HAZEZON TAMAR; RECHABITES; JEHONADAB.)
E. Wilton (Imperial Dictionary). suggests that Kenites is a religious rather than a gentilic term, meaning "a worshipper of the goddess Kain", one form of Ashtoreth or Astarte. This would account for God's denunciation of the Kenites by Balaam (Num_24:21-22 margin). Evidently the Kenites to be dispossessed by Israel (Gen_15:19) were distinct from the Kenites to whom Hobab and Jethro belonged. The latter were of Midianite origin, sprung from Abraham and Keturah, occupying the region E. of Egypt and W. of Seir and the gulf of Akabah (Gen_25:2); the former were Canaanites of the city Kain, which was taken by Judah (Jos_15:57). The Canaanite Kenites Balaam denounces; or else more probably Balaam's prophecy is "Kain (the Midianite Kenites) shall not be exterminated until Asshur shall carry him away into captivity" (Keil).
Thus "strong is thy dwelling place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock," is figurative. The Kenites did not as Edom dwell in the rocks (Oba_1:3-4), but by leaving their nomadic life near Horeb to join Israel wandering in quest of a home the Kenite really placed his rest upon a safe rock, and would only be carried away when Assyria and Babylon took Israel and Judah; with the difference however that Judah should be restored, but the Kenites not so because they forfeited God's blessing by maintaining independence of Israel though intimately joined and by never entering inwardly into God's covenant of grace with Israel.
The connection of Midian and the Kenites appears in the name Kenney still attached to a wady in the midst of the Muzeiny or Midianites. Midian (and the Kenites) and Amalek were associated, as still are the Muzeiny and Aleikat (Amalek). The Muzeiny commit their flocks to women, as Jethro committed his to his daughters. The name Medinah betrays connection with Midian. The power of ingratiating themselves with their neighbours characterized the Kenites (Jdg_4:17). Also the love of tent life, hospitality, the use of goat's milk whey, the employment of women in men's work, so that the sexes had free contact and yet the female part of the tent was inviolable (4, 5; Exo_2:4; Numbers 25).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
people who dwelt westward of the Dead Sea, and extended themselves pretty far into Arabia Petraea: for Jethro, the priest of Midian, and father-in-law to Moses, was a Kenite, Jdg_1:16; 1Ch_2:55; 1Sa_15:6. When Saul was sent to destroy the Amalekites, the Kenites, who had joined them, perhaps by compulsion, were ordered to depart from them, that they might not share in their fate; and the reason assigned was, that they showed kindness to the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt, 1Sa_15:6. Which, according to the margin of our Bible, is to be understood of the father-in- law of Moses and his family. From the story of Jethro, who is expressly said to be a Midianite, they appear to have retained the worship of the true God among them; for which, and their kindness to the Israelites when passing their country, they were spared in the general destruction of the nations bordering on Canaan. Of these Kenites were the Rechabites, the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Suchathites, mentioned in 1Ch_2:55, whose chief office was that of scribes. (See Rechabites.) Balaam, when invited by Balak, king of Moab, to curse Israel, stood upon a mountain, whence he addressed the Kenites, and said, Strong is thy dwelling place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock; nevertheless, the Kenite shall be wasted until Asher shall carry thee away captive, Num_24:21-22. The Kenites dwelt in mountains and rocks almost inaccessible. They were conquered and carried into captivity, by Nebuchadnezzar. After Saul the Kenites are not mentioned; but they subsisted, being mingled among the Edomites and other nations of Arabia Petraea.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.
The name Kenites usually refers to that tribal group within the Midianite people to which Moses in-laws belonged. This group had apparently mingled with the ancient Kenite people (who were among the early inhabitants of Canaan) and so were referred to as both Kenites and Midianites (Gen_15:19; Exo_2:15-21; Jdg_1:16; Jdg_4:11). The Israelites allowed the Kenite in-laws of Moses, and their descendants, to live among them in Canaan, and at times showed a special concern for them (Jdg_1:16; 1Sa_15:6; 1Sa_30:26-29; 1Ch_2:55; Neh_3:14).
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.
kē?nı̄ts (הקּני, ha-ḳēnı̄, הקּיני, haḳēnı̄; in Num_24:22 and Jdg_4:11, קין, ḳāyin; of οί Κεναῖοι, hoi Kenaı́oi, οί Κιναῖοι, hoi Kinaı́oi: A tribe of nomads named in association with various other peoples. They are first mentioned along with the Kadmonites and Kenizzites among the peoples whose land was promised to Abram (Gen_15:19). Balaam, seeing them from the heights of Moab; puns upon their name, which resembles the Hebrew ḳēn, ?a nest,? prophesying their destruction although their nest was ?set in the rock? - possibly a reference to Sela, the city. Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, is called ?the priest of Midian? in Exo_3:1; Exo_18:1; but in Jdg_1:16 he is described as a Kenite, showing a close relation between the Kenites and Midian. At the time of Sisera's overthrow, Heber, a Kenite, at ?peace? with Jabin, king of HaZôr, pitched his tent far North of his ancestral seats (Jdg_4:17). There were Kenites dwelling among the Amalekites in the time of Saul (1Sa_15:6). They were spared because they had ?showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.? David, in his answer to Achish, links the Kenites with the inhabitants of the South of Judah (1Sa_27:10). Among the ancestors of the tribe of Judah, the Chronicler includes the Kenite Hammath, the father of the Rechabites (1Ch_2:55). These last continued to live in tents, practicing the ancient nomadic customs (Jer_35:6 ff).
The word ḳēnı̄ in Aramaic means ?smith.? Professor Sayce thinks they may really have been a tribe of smiths, resembling ?the gipsies of modern Europe, as well as the traveling tinkers or blacksmiths of the Middle Ages? (HDB, under the word). This would account for their relations with the different peoples, among whom they would reside in pursuit of their calling.
In Josephus they appear as Kenetides, and in Ant., IV, vii, 3 he calls them ?the race of the Shechemites.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
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Kenites
Ke?nites, a tribe of Midianites dwelling among the Amalekites (1Sa_15:6; comp. Num_24:20-21), or occupying in semi-nomadic life the same region with the latter people in Arabia Petr?a. When Saul was sent to destroy the Amalekites, the Kenites, who had joined them, perhaps upon compulsion, were ordered to depart from them that they might not share their fate; and the reason assigned was, that they 'shewed kindness to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.' This kindness is supposed to have been that which Jethro and his family showed to Moses, as well as to the Israelites themselves, in consequence of which the whole tribe appears to have been treated with consideration, while the family of Jethro itself accompanied the Israelites into Palestine, where they continued to lead a nomad life, occupying there a position similar to that of the Tartar tribes in Persia at the present day. To this family belonged Heber, the husband of that Jael who slew Sisera, and who is hence called 'Heber the Kenite' (Jdg_4:11). At a later age other families of Kenites are mentioned as resident in Palestine, among whom were the Rechabites (1Ch_2:55; Jer_35:2); but it is not clear whether these were subdivisions of the increasing descendants of Jethro, as seems most likely, or families which availed themselves of the friendly-dispositions of the Israelites towards the tribe to settle in the country. It appears that, whatever was the general condition of the Midianites, the tribe of the Kenites possessed a knowledge of the true God in the time of Jethro [HOBAB]; and that those families which settled in Palestine did not afterwards lose that knowledge, but increased it, is clear from the passages which have been cited [MIDIANITES; RECHABITES].
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
KENITES.A nomadic tribe, closely connected with the Amalekites (wh. see), and probably indeed a branch of them, but having friendly relations with Israel, and ultimately, it seems, at least in the main, absorbed in Judah. Hobab, Moses father-in-law (Jdg_1:16; Jdg_4:11 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ), who had been invited by Mosesand had doubtless accepted the invitationto he a guide to Israel in the wilderness (Num_10:29-32), was a Kenite; and his descendants came up from Jericho with the tribe of Judah into the S. part of their territory (Arad is about 17 miles S. of Hebron), though afterwards, true to their Bedouin instincts, they roamed beyond the border and rejoined their kinsmen, the Amalekites, in the N. of the Sinaitic Peninsula (Jdg_1:16; read in this verse, with MSS of LXX [Note: Septuagint.] , the Amalekite for the peoplethree letters have dropped out in the Heb.). When Saul, many years later, attacked the Amalekites, he bade the Kenites separate themselves from them, on the ground that they had shown kindness to Israel at the time of the Exodus (1Sa_15:6,alluding doubtless to Hobabs guidance, Num_10:29-32). In Jdg_4:11 Heber the Kenite is mentioned as having separated himself from the main body of the tribe, and wandered northwards as far as the neighbourhood of Kedesh (near the Waters of Merom). From 1Sa_27:10; 1Sa_30:29 we learn that in the time of David there was a district in the S. of Judah inhabited by Kenites; it is possible also that Kinah, in the Negeb of Judah (Jos_15:22), and Kain in the hill-country (Jos_15:57), were Kenite settlements. The Rechabites, with whom the nomadic life had become a religious Institution (Jer_35:1-19), were Kenites (1Ch_2:55). In Gen_15:19 the Kenites are mentioned among the ten nations whose land was to be taken possession of by Israel; the reference is doubtless to the absorption of the Kenites in Judah. In Num_24:21 f. Balaam, with a play on the resemblance of the name to the Heb. kçn, nest, declares that though their nest is among the rocky crags (namely, in the S. of Judah), they would in the end be carried away captive by the Assyrians (Kain in Num_24:22 is the proper name of the tribe of which Kenite Is the gentilic adj.; cf. Jdg_4:11 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] . Observe here that the oracle on the Kenites follows closely upon that on the Amalekites).
The word kain means in Heb. a spear (2Sa_21:16), and in Arab. [Note: Arabic.] an iron-smith; in Aram, also the word corresponding to Kenite denotes a metal-worker; it has hence been conjectured (Sayce) that the Kenites were a nomad tribe of smiths. There is, however, no support for this conjecture beyond the resemblance in the words.
S. R. Driver.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A Midianite race, for Jethro the Kenite is called priest prince of Midian (Exo_2:15-16; Exo_4:19; Jdg_1:16; Jdg_4:11). The connection with Moses explains their continued alliance with Israel, accompanying them to Jericho "the city of palm trees" (Jdg_1:16; compare 2Ch_28:15), thence to the wilderness of Judah, where "they dwelt among the people" (Israel), realizing Moses' promise to Hobab, whose name appears slightly altered as that of a wady opposite Jericho (Num_10:32). (See HOBAB.) Hence Saul in a friendly spirit warned them to leave the Amalekites whom he was about to destroy (1Sa_15:6), and David sent presents to them, having previously pretended to Achish that he had invaded their southern border (1Sa_27:10; 1Sa_30:29). (See HEBER; HAZEZON TAMAR; RECHABITES; JEHONADAB.)
E. Wilton (Imperial Dictionary). suggests that Kenites is a religious rather than a gentilic term, meaning "a worshipper of the goddess Kain", one form of Ashtoreth or Astarte. This would account for God's denunciation of the Kenites by Balaam (Num_24:21-22 margin). Evidently the Kenites to be dispossessed by Israel (Gen_15:19) were distinct from the Kenites to whom Hobab and Jethro belonged. The latter were of Midianite origin, sprung from Abraham and Keturah, occupying the region E. of Egypt and W. of Seir and the gulf of Akabah (Gen_25:2); the former were Canaanites of the city Kain, which was taken by Judah (Jos_15:57). The Canaanite Kenites Balaam denounces; or else more probably Balaam's prophecy is "Kain (the Midianite Kenites) shall not be exterminated until Asshur shall carry him away into captivity" (Keil).
Thus "strong is thy dwelling place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock," is figurative. The Kenites did not as Edom dwell in the rocks (Oba_1:3-4), but by leaving their nomadic life near Horeb to join Israel wandering in quest of a home the Kenite really placed his rest upon a safe rock, and would only be carried away when Assyria and Babylon took Israel and Judah; with the difference however that Judah should be restored, but the Kenites not so because they forfeited God's blessing by maintaining independence of Israel though intimately joined and by never entering inwardly into God's covenant of grace with Israel.
The connection of Midian and the Kenites appears in the name Kenney still attached to a wady in the midst of the Muzeiny or Midianites. Midian (and the Kenites) and Amalek were associated, as still are the Muzeiny and Aleikat (Amalek). The Muzeiny commit their flocks to women, as Jethro committed his to his daughters. The name Medinah betrays connection with Midian. The power of ingratiating themselves with their neighbours characterized the Kenites (Jdg_4:17). Also the love of tent life, hospitality, the use of goat's milk whey, the employment of women in men's work, so that the sexes had free contact and yet the female part of the tent was inviolable (4, 5; Exo_2:4; Numbers 25).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
people who dwelt westward of the Dead Sea, and extended themselves pretty far into Arabia Petraea: for Jethro, the priest of Midian, and father-in-law to Moses, was a Kenite, Jdg_1:16; 1Ch_2:55; 1Sa_15:6. When Saul was sent to destroy the Amalekites, the Kenites, who had joined them, perhaps by compulsion, were ordered to depart from them, that they might not share in their fate; and the reason assigned was, that they showed kindness to the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt, 1Sa_15:6. Which, according to the margin of our Bible, is to be understood of the father-in- law of Moses and his family. From the story of Jethro, who is expressly said to be a Midianite, they appear to have retained the worship of the true God among them; for which, and their kindness to the Israelites when passing their country, they were spared in the general destruction of the nations bordering on Canaan. Of these Kenites were the Rechabites, the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Suchathites, mentioned in 1Ch_2:55, whose chief office was that of scribes. (See Rechabites.) Balaam, when invited by Balak, king of Moab, to curse Israel, stood upon a mountain, whence he addressed the Kenites, and said, Strong is thy dwelling place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock; nevertheless, the Kenite shall be wasted until Asher shall carry thee away captive, Num_24:21-22. The Kenites dwelt in mountains and rocks almost inaccessible. They were conquered and carried into captivity, by Nebuchadnezzar. After Saul the Kenites are not mentioned; but they subsisted, being mingled among the Edomites and other nations of Arabia Petraea.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.
The name Kenites usually refers to that tribal group within the Midianite people to which Moses in-laws belonged. This group had apparently mingled with the ancient Kenite people (who were among the early inhabitants of Canaan) and so were referred to as both Kenites and Midianites (Gen_15:19; Exo_2:15-21; Jdg_1:16; Jdg_4:11). The Israelites allowed the Kenite in-laws of Moses, and their descendants, to live among them in Canaan, and at times showed a special concern for them (Jdg_1:16; 1Sa_15:6; 1Sa_30:26-29; 1Ch_2:55; Neh_3:14).
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.
kē?nı̄ts (הקּני, ha-ḳēnı̄, הקּיני, haḳēnı̄; in Num_24:22 and Jdg_4:11, קין, ḳāyin; of οί Κεναῖοι, hoi Kenaı́oi, οί Κιναῖοι, hoi Kinaı́oi: A tribe of nomads named in association with various other peoples. They are first mentioned along with the Kadmonites and Kenizzites among the peoples whose land was promised to Abram (Gen_15:19). Balaam, seeing them from the heights of Moab; puns upon their name, which resembles the Hebrew ḳēn, ?a nest,? prophesying their destruction although their nest was ?set in the rock? - possibly a reference to Sela, the city. Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, is called ?the priest of Midian? in Exo_3:1; Exo_18:1; but in Jdg_1:16 he is described as a Kenite, showing a close relation between the Kenites and Midian. At the time of Sisera's overthrow, Heber, a Kenite, at ?peace? with Jabin, king of HaZôr, pitched his tent far North of his ancestral seats (Jdg_4:17). There were Kenites dwelling among the Amalekites in the time of Saul (1Sa_15:6). They were spared because they had ?showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.? David, in his answer to Achish, links the Kenites with the inhabitants of the South of Judah (1Sa_27:10). Among the ancestors of the tribe of Judah, the Chronicler includes the Kenite Hammath, the father of the Rechabites (1Ch_2:55). These last continued to live in tents, practicing the ancient nomadic customs (Jer_35:6 ff).
The word ḳēnı̄ in Aramaic means ?smith.? Professor Sayce thinks they may really have been a tribe of smiths, resembling ?the gipsies of modern Europe, as well as the traveling tinkers or blacksmiths of the Middle Ages? (HDB, under the word). This would account for their relations with the different peoples, among whom they would reside in pursuit of their calling.
In Josephus they appear as Kenetides, and in Ant., IV, vii, 3 he calls them ?the race of the Shechemites.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
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Kenites
Ke?nites, a tribe of Midianites dwelling among the Amalekites (1Sa_15:6; comp. Num_24:20-21), or occupying in semi-nomadic life the same region with the latter people in Arabia Petr?a. When Saul was sent to destroy the Amalekites, the Kenites, who had joined them, perhaps upon compulsion, were ordered to depart from them that they might not share their fate; and the reason assigned was, that they 'shewed kindness to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.' This kindness is supposed to have been that which Jethro and his family showed to Moses, as well as to the Israelites themselves, in consequence of which the whole tribe appears to have been treated with consideration, while the family of Jethro itself accompanied the Israelites into Palestine, where they continued to lead a nomad life, occupying there a position similar to that of the Tartar tribes in Persia at the present day. To this family belonged Heber, the husband of that Jael who slew Sisera, and who is hence called 'Heber the Kenite' (Jdg_4:11). At a later age other families of Kenites are mentioned as resident in Palestine, among whom were the Rechabites (1Ch_2:55; Jer_35:2); but it is not clear whether these were subdivisions of the increasing descendants of Jethro, as seems most likely, or families which availed themselves of the friendly-dispositions of the Israelites towards the tribe to settle in the country. It appears that, whatever was the general condition of the Midianites, the tribe of the Kenites possessed a knowledge of the true God in the time of Jethro [HOBAB]; and that those families which settled in Palestine did not afterwards lose that knowledge, but increased it, is clear from the passages which have been cited [MIDIANITES; RECHABITES].
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
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