The Lantern

Concerning the Place Names in Sacred Scripture · Translation26

CCEL

Kadēmim (Cademi). Wadi where Debora fought.

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

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

Kēni. Territory of the heathen (Philistines).

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

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

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

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

Kōa. Near Egypt.

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

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

Kēdar. 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. In territory of Moab according to Jeremia.

Kapharnaoum. 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.]

Lasan. Border of the Chanaanites with the Sodomites.

Louza (Luza). Jacob renamed this Bethel. This village, inhabited even now, is on the left of the road going to Jerusalem from Neapolis. Given to tribe of Benjamin.

Louza (Luza). Another. Given to the sons of Joseph. Near Suchem (Sychem) nine (three) miles from Neapolis.

Lōtan. City of the princes of Edom.

[Lebōna. Station of the children of Israel in the desert.

Lobon. Place on the desert "'Beyond the Jordan" where Moses read Deuteronomy.

JOSUE ]

Lacheis. This also Josue besieged and captured (killed) its king. Isaiah (and Jeremia) also mention(s) this. There is even now a village seven miles south of Eleutheropolis toward the Daroma. Noted also in Jeremia. (In) tribe of Juda.