shaveh kiriathaim Summary and Overview

(plain of the double city), mentioned #Ge 14:5| as the residence of the Emim at the time of Chedorlaomer's incursion. Kiriathaim is named in the later history, though it has not been identified; and Shaveh Kiriathaim was probably the valley in or by which the town lay.

Genesis 14:5. The dwelling place of the Emim at Chedorlaomer's incursion. The "dale or valley" (Shaveh) by which Kiriathaim was situated. Or "the valley of the two cities." (See KIRIATHAIM.)