Kiriath-Arba
Kiriath-Arba
KIRIATH-ARBA is used as a name for Hebron (wh. see) in Gen 23:2 etc. Only in Gen 35:27 and Neh 11:25 is Arba written with the article. The city may have been so called as the seat of a confederacy between four men or tribes, or the name may be = Tetrapolis, the city of four quarters. The Heb. text explains it as the city of Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim (Jos 14:16 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ), or the father of Anak (Jos 15:13; Jos 21:11). In the first passage LXX [Note: Septuagint.] reads the city Argob, the metropolis of the Anakim: in the second the city Arbok, metropolis, etc. Perhaps in the last two, therefore, we should read m, mother, i.e. mother-city, instead of abi, father.
W. Ewing.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Kiriath-Arba
kir-i-ath-arba. See HEBRON.