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(קרש×, kÌ£eresh): Found only in English Versions of the Bible in , in the prophet's “lamentation over Tyreâ€: “They have made thy benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim,†where the word evidently stands for the “benches†of the boat whose “mast†() and “oars†() have just been described, in the vivid figs. of speech in which the city itself is pictured as a merchantship. Compare , “Thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.†See SEAT.