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KISH - K>@ - (a bow). The father of Saul; a Benjamite of the family of Matri. (B.C. 1095.) Son of Jehiel and uncle to the preceding. ( kjv@1Chronicles:9:36) A Benjamite, great-grandfather of Mordecai. kjv@Esther:2:5) A Merarite of the house of Mahli, of the tribe of Levi. ( kjv@1Chronicles:23:21-22 kjv@1Chronicles:24:28-29)



KISHI - K>@ - (bow of Jehovah), a Merarite, and father of ancestor of Ethan the minstrel. ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:44)



KISHION - K>@ - (hardness), one of the towns on the boundary of the tribe of Issachar, kjv@Joshua:19:20) which with its suburbs was allotted to the Gershonite Levites. kjv@Joshua:21:28) Authorized Version KISHON.



KISHON - K>@ - (winding), The river, a torrent or winter stream of central Palestine, the scene of two of the grandest achievements of Israelitish history
the defeat of Sisera, kjv@Judges:4, and the destruction of the prophets of Baal by Elijah. (Kings:18:40) The Nahr Mukutta , the modern representative of the Kishon, is the drain by which the waters of the plain of Esdraelon and of the mountains which enclose that plain find their way through the plain of Acre to the Mediterranean. The part of the Kishon at which the prophets of Baal were slaughtered by Elijah was doubtless close below the spot on Carmel where the sacrifice had taken place.