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KEDAR

Volume 11 · 69 words · 1810 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a district in the desert of the Saracens (so called from Cedar, the son of Ishmael, according to Jerome, who in another place says that Kodar 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 (Isaiah lx.), of a frowzy complexion (Canticles i.), and excellent at the bow (Isaiah xxii.).