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Camon
Full of stalks, a place (Judg 10:5) where Jair was buried. It has usually been supposed to have been a city of Gilead, on the east of Jordan. It is probably, however, the modern Tell-el-Kaimun, on the southern slopes of Carmel, the Jokneam of Carmel (Josh 12:22; 1 Kgs 4:12), since it is not at all unlikely that after he became judge, Jair might find it more convenient to live on the west side of Jordan; and that he was buried where he had lived.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Judges 10:5 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
