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Eusebius of Caesarea, Onomasticon (1971) Translation. pp. 1-75.

Eusebius of Caesarea

SECTION K

Karnaeim. Astaroth Karnaeim.578 There is now a large village of Arabia (in a corner of the Batanea) which is called Karnaia beyond the (river) Jordan. There according to tradition the house of Job is pointed out. There is also another village called Karnaia in the region (nine miles from) of Jerusalem.

Kadēs.579 Where the spring "of judgment" was.

Kadēa Barnē.580 The desert which extends to (the city of) Petra a city or Arabia. There Mariam went up and died, and there the doubting Moses struck the rock to give water to the thirsty people. The tomb of Mariam herself is pointed out there even now. There also Chodollagomor beat the chiefs of the Amalakites.

Kenaz.581 Territory or the princes of Edom.

Kariathaeim.582 City which "the sons or Ruben" built. There is now a (flourishing) wholly Christian village called Kariatha (Coraiatha), near Mēdaba, city of Arabia, ten miles west toward (the place called) Barē.

Kariatharbo.583 "That is Hebron" noted also above. (i.e., the village of the four which is Hebron of which we spoke above.)

Kanath.584 Village of Arabia [called Manatha] even now, [which Nobe took] and named Naboth. Given to tribe of Manasse. It is located even now in the Trachoitis near Bostra.

Kata ta Krusea (Catatachrysea, i.e., to gold).585 Mountain which is full of gold dust on the desert eleven days distant from Mt.Choreb beside which Moses wrote Deuteronomy. It is said that (formerly) the mountain (full) of gold veins was near the copper mines in Phainon (which in our tine were still working.

Kadēmōth.586 Desert from which Moses sent the elders (ambassadors) "to Sohon" [king of the Amorrites].

Kariath.587 City (village) which was under the metropolis of Gabaon.

Kades.588 City which Josue besieged, killing its king. Given (in lot) to tribe of Juda.

Kademoth.589 (Another) city of the sons of Ruben.

[Kedsōn.590 (In) tribe of Ruben.] (City) separated to Levites.

JOSUE

Kapseēl.591 (In) tribe of Juda.

Kina.592 (In) tribe of Juda.

Keeila.593 (In) tribe of Juda. Where David once lived. Even now a village Kela (nearly) eight miles east of Eleutheropolis on the road to Hebron. The Tomb of Habacuc the prophet is pointed out there.

Kariathbaal.594 This is the city Iareim. Tribe of Juda.

Kana.595 (In) tribe of Ephraim.

[Kabsaeim (Capsaim).596 (In) tribe of Ephraim.]

Kane.597 (In) tribe of Manasse.

Kariathiareim (Kariathbaal).598 Or city Iareim (of salt). One of the (cities of the Gabaonites. (Belonging to) tribe of Juda between Jerusalem and Diospolis. Located on the road nine miles from Jerusalem. The home of Uria the prophet whom Ioakim killed in Jerusalem according to Jeremia. The son of Sobal is called Cariathiareim according to Paralipomenon.

Kisōn (Kision).599 (In tribe of) lot of Issachar. City separated to the Levites.

Kartha.600 (In tribe of) city of Zabulon separated to Levites.

Katta.601 (In tribe of) lot of Zabulon. City separated to Levites.

Kana.602 Near Sidōn the Great (to distinguish it from the other, the less). Lot of (tribe of) Aser. There (it was in Cana) our Lord and God (Savior) Jesus Christ changed the water into wine. Home of Nathanael (judged a true Israelite as the Savior testified). It is (today a city) in Galilee of the Nations.

Kades (Cades).603Lot of Naphthali. Priestly city formerly city of refuge "in Galilee in the mountains of Nephthali." The king of Assyria took it. It is now (called) Kudissos, twenty miles from Tyro near Paneas.

Kartham.604 City (in) of tribe of Nephthali, separated to Levites.

JUDGES

Ketrōn.605 (In tribe of) Zabulon "did not drive out the heathen" (in which the former inhabitants remained).

Karka (Carcar).606 Home of "Zebee and Salmana" whom Gedeon killed. There is now a Fort Karkaria one day journey from the city of Petra.

Kamōn.607 City of Iaeir where the judge of Israel was buried. There is now a village Kammōna in the great plain six miles north of Legeon on the road to Ptolemais.

Kisōn.608 Wadi near Mt.Thabōr where Sisara was fought.

Kadēmim (Cademi).609 Wadi where Debora fought.

Koilas of the Titans (i.e., valley of giants).610 Against whom David fought.

Klauthmōn.611 Territory of lamentation (i.e., place of weeping) a place so called (receiving its name from lamentation).

KINGS

Kēni.612 Territory of the heathen (Philistines).

Karmēlos.613 Home of Nabal. A village called Chermala which is interpreted Karmelos is now ten miles east of Hebron. A (Roman) garrison is located there.

[Karmēlos. Mountain.]614 On the Phoenician sea and dividing Palestine from Phoenicia. Where Elias lived. (Entry not in Latin.)

Kabseēl.615 Home of Banaias son of Ioda. (Entry not in Latin.)

Kedrōn.616 Wadi or ravine of Kedron near Jerusalem. (To the east, the Gospel of John mentions it.)

Kurinē (Cyrene).617 (On the border of Egypt) where the Assyrian king sent away the Damascenes.

Kōa.618 Near Egypt.

Karchēdon (i.e., Carthage).619 Isaia in vision of Tyre and also Ezechiel. In the Hebrew it is Tharsis [of this we have spoken fully in the book Hebrew Questions].

Kollas Iōsaphat.620 (Coelas, i.e., valley) located between Jerusalem and the Mt. of Olives. [We read in the prophet Joel.]

Kedam.621 In Ezechiel. Aquila and Symmachus (interpret) "east."

Kēdar.622 In Ezechiel. "Princes of Kedar." Also in Jeremia and Isaia in the "vision of Arabia." It is in the territory of the Saracans (desert). The son of Ismael, son of Abraham (Latin omits phrase) is (named) Kedar.

Kariōth.623 In territory of Moab according to Jeremia.

Kapharnaoum.624 By the Lake of Gennesaret. It is now a village (city) in the Galilee of the nations, (located) "on the border of Zebulon and Naphthali."

[Here ends our reading for the letter C i.e., the Greek Kappa the rest are under the letter Chi, which has aspiration in itself and of which there is very little use in Latin.]

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