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kē´ri-oth, -ōth (קריּות, ḳerı̄yōth):
(1) A city of Moab, named with Beth-meon and Bozrah (, ). Here was a sanctuary of Chemosh, to which Mesha says (M S, l. 13) he dragged “the altar hearths of Davdoh.†It may possibly be represented by the modern Ḳuraiāt, between Dibān and ‛Aṭṭārūs. Some (e.g. Driver on ) think it may be only another name for Ar-Moab. Buhl (GAP, 270) would identify it with Kir of Moab (Kerak). No certainty is yet possible.
(2) A city of Judah (; the Revised Version (British and American) KERIOTH-HEZRON (which see)), possibly the modern el-Ḳuryatain, to the Northeast of Tell ‛Arād.