CYAMON, Jdt_7:3 = Jokneam (wh. see).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
sı̄?a-mon (Κυαμών, Kuamō̇n, Judith 7:3): Probably identical with JOKNEAM (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Cyamon
(Κυαμών; Vulgate, Chelmon), a place named only in Jdt_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 (Jdg_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.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.