SHAVEH-KIRIATHAIM (the plain of Kiriathaim).The place where the Emim were smitten by the allied kings from the East (Gen_14:5). It probably derived its name from the Moabite Kiriathaim (Num_32:37, Jos_13:19).
H. L. Willett.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
shā?ve-kir-ya-thā?im (קריתים שׁוה, shāweh ḳiryāthayim; ἐν Σαυὴ τῇ πόλει, en Sauḗ tḗ pólei): Here Chedorlaomer is said to have defeated the Emim (Gen_14:5). the Revised Version margin reads ?the plain of Kiriathaim.? If this rendering is right, we must look for the place in the neighborhood of Kiriathaim of Moab (Jer_48:1, etc.), which is probably represented today by el-Ḳareiyāt, about 7 miles to the North of Dibon.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Shaveh' Kiryatha'yim, שָׁוֵה קרַיָתָיַ ם, plain of the double city; Sept. Σαυή ὴ πόλις), a plain at or near the city of Kiriathaim, occupied by the Emim at the time of Chedorlaomer's invasion (Gen_14:5). Schwarz finds the town (which is known to have been located east of the Jordan) in. the ruins of Kiriat, one and a half mile southwest from Mount Atara (Palest. p. 228), and the dale, or Shaveh (q.v.), must have been in the immediate vicinity. SEE KIRJATHAIM.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.