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KEDAR

Volume 9 · 70 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), a district in the desert of the Saracens (so called from Cedar, the son of Ish- mael, according to Jerome, who in another place says that Kedar was uninhabitable), on the north of Arabia Felix. Kedareni, the people; who dwelt in tents like the other Scenites (Psalm cxx.), were rich in cattle (Isa- iah lx.), of a fleshy complexion (Canticles i.), and excellent at the bow (Isaiah xxi.).