keziz Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
keziz in Easton's Bible Dictionary
abrupt; cut off, a city of the tribe of Benjamin (Josh. 18:21).
keziz in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(cut off), The valley of, one of the "cities" of Benjamin, #Jos 18:21| and the eastern border of the tribe.
keziz in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
KE'ZIZ , a town on the eastern border of Benjamin. Josh 18:21.
keziz in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
A city on the E. border of Benjamin (Joshua 18:21). A valley (creek, or head of a valley expanding into a plain, triangular, W. of the Jordan, between the base of the hills and the Dead Sea) is named from it; from kaatsats "to cut"; from the timber cut down in the large groves that anciently grew near Jericho and the Jordan and in the plain. This cutting of the forest before his eyes would naturally suggest John Baptist's image, "now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees" (Matthew 3:10). DeSaulcy found such head of a valley still called Kaaziz.