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kish

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Kish  \Kish\,  n.  [Cf.  G.  kies  gravel,  pyrites.]  (Min.) 
  A  workman's  name  for  the  graphite  which  forms  incidentally  in 
  iron  smelting. 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Kish 
  a  bow.  (1.)  A  Levite  of  the  family  of  Merari  (1  Chr.  23:21; 
  24:29). 
 
  (2.)  A  Benjamite  of  Jerusalem  (1  Chr.  8:30;  9:36). 
 
  (3.)  A  Levite  in  the  time  of  Hezekiah  (2  Chr.  29:12). 
 
  (4.)  The  great-grandfather  of  Mordecai  (Esther  2:5). 
 
  (5.)  A  Benjamite,  the  son  of  Abiel,  and  father  of  king  Saul  (1 
  Sam.  9:1,  3;  10:11,  21;  14:51;  2  Sam.  21:14).  All  that  is 
  recorded  of  him  is  that  he  sent  his  son  Saul  in  search  of  his 
  asses  that  had  strayed,  and  that  he  was  buried  in  Zelah.  Called 
  Cis,  Acts  13:21  (R.V.,  Kish). 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Kish,  hard;  difficult;  straw;  for  age




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