Beginnings; easternmost, a city of Reuben, assigned to the Levites of the family of Merari (Josh. 13:18). It lay not far north-east of Dibon-gad, east of the Dead Sea.
Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain
Place
Kedemoth
Name meaning: antiquity; old age (Hitchcock)
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Also in Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(beginnings), one of the towns in the district east of the Dead Sea allotted to the tribe of Reuben, (Joshua 13:18) given by the Merarite Levites. (Joshua 21:37; 1 Chronicles 6:79) It possibly conferred its name on the “wilderness,” or uncultivated pasture land, “of Kedemoth.” (Numbers 21:33; 2:26,27) etc.
Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863) · Public domain
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