Kabzeel

Kabzeel

קַבְצְאֵל‎
Kabzeel קַבְצְאֵל‎
	Kabzeel
	Coordinates: 31°11′8.86″N 34°58′2.84″E / 31.1857944°N 34.9674556°ECoordinates: 31°11′8.86″N 34°58′2.84″E / 31.1857944°N 34.9674556°E
Country	Israel
Region	Due S of Judah, on border of Edom; ; poss. located ≈ 10 km (6 mi) ENE of Beer-sheba.

Kabzeel (Hebrew: קַבְצְאֵל, Trans: Qabtsĕ'el, "God gathers") is a Hebrew Bible place name. It was the most remote city of Judah; located in southern Judah on the border of Edom (Idumaea) (Joshua 15:21). The location is tentatively identified with Khirbet Hora^[1] (Horvat Hur), about 10 km (6 mi) ENE of Beer-sheba. Kabzeel was the birthplace of Benaiah, one of David's chief warriors (2 Samuel 23:20; 1 Chronicles 11:22).^[2] Following the Exile, it was resettled under the name Jekabzeel (Nehemiah 11:25).^[3]

Footnotes[]

^ ISBE 2009, p. 1-K: Yohanan Aharoni suggested Khirbet Hora as a possible location for Kabzeel, in his 1975 revised edition of The Land of the Bible: A Historical Geography.
^ Gesenius 1860, p. 362.
^ Eerdmans 2000, p. 759.

Eerdmans, David Noel Freedman, ed.-in-chief; Allen C. Myers, associate ed. ; Astrid B. Beck, managing (2000). Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI [etc.]: Eerdmans. p. 759. ISBN 9789053565032.
Gesenius, Wilhelm (1860). Gesenius's Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon. Samuel Prideaux Tregelles. p. 362.
ISBE, general editor; Geoffrey W. Bromiley, general editor; associate editors, Everett F. Harrison, Roland K. Harrison, William Sanford (2009). The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ([Fully rev.]. ed.). Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans. p. 1-K. ISBN 9780802837851. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)