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Shaveh-Kiriathaim
Shaveh Kiriathaim in the Topics
Plain of Kirja-thaim where Chedorlaomer defeated the Emims, the original inhabitants (Gen 14:5). Now Kureiyat, north of Dibon, in the land of Moab.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Genesis 14:5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.