possession; purchase
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
KENIZZITES.A clan named from an eponymous ancestor, Kenaz. According to J [Note: Jahwist.] (Jos_15:17, Jdg_1:13), Caleb and Othniel were descended from him. (The Inference, sometimes made, that Kenaz was a brother of Caleb, arose from a misunderstanding of these passages.) R [Note: Redactor.] in Jos_14:6; Jos_14:14 definitely calls Caleb a Kenizzite, as P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] does in Num_32:12. R [Note: Redactor.] also (Gen_15:18-21) counts the Kenizzites among the pre-Israelitish inhabitants of Palestine. P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] in Gen_36:42 enrols Kenaz among the dukes of Edom, while a Priestly supplementer counts him both as a duke and as a grandson of Esau (Gen_36:11; Gen_36:16). The Chronicler names Kenaz as a grandson of Esau (1Ch_1:36), and also as a descendant of Judah (1Ch_4:13-15). The probable meaning of all these passages is that the Kenizzites overspread a part of Edom and southern Judah before the Israelitish conquest and continued to abide there, a part of them being absorbed by the Edomites, and a part by the tribe of Judah. This latter portion embraced the clans of Caleb and Othniel.
George A. Barton.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
an ancient people of Canaan, whose land God promised to the descendants of Abraham, Gen_15:19. It is thought that this people dwelt in the mountains south of Judea.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.
Ken?izzites, a Canaanitish tribe, mentioned in Gen_15:19, along with others, over which it was promised that the seed of Abraham should have dominion. The notion that they sprung from Kenaz, the grandson of Edom, and had their dwelling somewhere in Idumea, cannot be entertained, seeing that the tribe is named long before Kenaz had existence. The Kenizzites of Num_32:12; Jos_14:6, appear, however, to be a different race, the origin of which may without improbability be ascribed to Kenaz. The Kenizzites are not named among the nations whom the Israelites eventually subdued; whence it may be supposed that they had by that time merged into some of the other nations which Israel overcame.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.