Category:Kish

Kish, n. Etym: [Cf. G. kies gravel, pyrites.] (Min.)

Defn: A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.

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Kish - A bow. (1.) A Levite of the family of Merari (1 Chronicles 23:21; 1 Chronicles 24:29). (2.) A Benjamite of Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 8:30; 1 Chronicles 9:36). (3.) A Levite in the time of Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 29:12). (4.) The great-grandfather of Mordecai (Esther 2:5). (5.) A Benjamite, the son of Abiel, and father of king Saul (1 Samuel 9:1, 1 Samuel 9:3; 1 Samuel 10:11, 1 Samuel 10:21; 1 Samuel 14:51; 2 Samuel 21:14). All that is recorded of him is that he sent his son Saul in search of his donkeys that had strayed, and that he was buried in Zelah. Called Cis, Acts 13:21 (R.V., Kish).