Topic
Kirjath-sannah
3 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Joshua 15:49Easton · Nave A city of the tribe of Judah
And Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah, which is Debir,
- Joshua 10:38Easton
¶ And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it:
- Judges 1:11Easton
And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher:
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 5 references
City of the sannah; i.e., of the palm(?), Josh. 15:49; the same as Kirjath-sepher (15:16; Judg. 1:11) and Debir (q.v.), a Canaanitish royal city included in Judah (Josh. 10:38; 15:49), and probably the chief seat of learning among the Hittites. It was about 12 miles to the south-west of Hebron.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.