end; extremity
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
A city on the E. border of Benjamin (Jos_18:21). A valley (creek, or head of a valley expanding into a plain, triangular, W. of the Jordan, between the base of the hills and the Dead Sea) is named from it; from kaatsats "to cut"; from the timber cut down in the large groves that anciently grew near Jericho and the Jordan and in the plain. This cutting of the forest before his eyes would naturally suggest John Baptist's image, "now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees" (Mat_3:10). DeSaulcy found such head of a valley still called Kaaziz.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ke'ziz. (cut off). The valley of Keziz. One of the "cities" of Benjamin, Jos_18:21, and the eastern border of the tribe.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
kē?ziz (קציץ, ḳecīc). See EMEK-KEZIZ.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Keziz
(Hebrew Ketsits', קְצַיוֹ, abrupt; only with עֵמֶק, e'meki, valley, prefixed; Septuag. both Α᾿μεκκασίς, Vulg. Vallis Casis), or rather Enmek-Keziz (Vale of Keziz), a city of the tribe of Benjamin, mentioned between Beth - hoglah and Beth-arabah (Jos_18:21), and therefore probably situated in a steep ravine of the same name leading to the valley of the Jordan. SEE BETHBASI. M. De Saulcy found a small valley by the name of Kaaziz about an hour and a half distant from Bethany, in the direction of Jericho (Narrative, ii, 17),which he conjectures (p. 26) was the ancient Valley of Keziz. So also Van de Velde (Memoir, p. 328) calls it Wady el Kaziz.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.