Bible Dictionary · K
Kerioth
Cities. (1.) A town in the south of Judah (Josh 15:25). Judas the traitor was probably a native of this place, and hence his name Iscariot. It has been identified with the ruins of el-Kureitein, about 10 miles south of Hebron. (See Hazor [4]).
(2.) A city of Moab (Jer 48:24, Jer 48:41), called Kirioth (Amos 2:2).
Named in the Bible
4 verses
- Joshua 15:25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,
- Jeremiah 48:24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
- Jeremiah 48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
- Amos 2:2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
