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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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