crooked; crookedness
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
KEROS.Name of a family of Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel (Ezr_2:44 = Neh_7:47); in 1Es_5:29 Keras.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Neh_7:47.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ke'ros. (curved). One of the Nethinim, whose descendants returned with Zerubbabel. Ezr_2:44; Neh_7:47.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
kē?ros (קירס, ḳērōṣ, ?fortress?(?)): One of the Nethinim (Ezr_2:44; Neh_7:47), an order appointed to the liturgical offices of the temple. See NETHINIM.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Keros
(Heb' Keyros', קֵידֹס, curved, Neh_7:47; Sept. Κειπάς v. r. Κιράς; or קֵרס, Keros', Ezr_2:44; Sept. Κηραός v. r. Κορές, Κάδης ; Vulg. Ceros), a man whose descendants (or a place whose former inhabit-. ants) returned as Nethinim from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezr_2:44; Neh_7:47). B.C. ante 536.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.