Kedar

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Kedar
     dark-skinned, the second son of Ishmael (Gen. 25:13).
     
       It is the name for the nomadic tribes of Arabs, the Bedouins
     generally (Isa. 21:16; 42:11; 60:7; Jer. 2:10; Ezek. 27:21), who
     dwelt in the north-west of Arabia. They lived in black


     hair-tents (Cant. 1:5). To "dwell in the tents of Kedar" was to
     be cut off from the worship of the true God (Ps. 120:5). The
     Kedarites suffered at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (Jer. 49:28,
     29).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Kedar, blackness; sorrow