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Kenath

KENATH, a Town in the Tribe of Manasseh, beyond Jordan. It took the Name of Nobah, after that one Nobah an Israelite had made a Conquest of it. Nevertheless it is now known by the Name of Kenath. Eusebius says, it is in the Trachonitis, somewhere about Bozra. Pliny places it among the Towns of the Decapolis.

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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Kenath,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/k/kenath/.

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