kiriathaim Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
kiriathaim in Smith's Bible Dictionary
[KIRJATHAIM]
kiriathaim in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
KIRIATHA'IM (double city), Jer 48:1, Heb 12:23; Eze 25:9, or
kiriathaim in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
1. Numbers 32:37; Joshua 13:19. A town of Reuben. Belonged first to the Emim (Genesis 14:5 Shaveh Kiriathaim. "the plain of Kiriathaim," or of the two cities) whom the Moabites dispossessed before the Exodus (Deuteronomy 2:10-11). Moab lost and recovered Kiriathaim when the trans-jordanic tribes were carried captive (Jeremiah 48:1-23; Ezekiel 25:9). 2. Kiriathaim of Naphtali, assigned to the Levitical Gershonites (1 Chronicles 6:76).