قنیزیان

same as Kenezite

[د ننوتلو کلمه: کینیزیتس]

A clan named from an eponymous ancestor, Kenaz. According to J [Note: Jahwist.] (Joshua 15:17, Judges 1:13), Caleb and Othniel were descended from him. (The Inference, sometimes made, that Kenaz was a brother of Caleb, arose from a misunderstanding of these passages.) R [Note: Redactor.] in Joshua 14:6; Joshua 14:14 definitely calls Caleb a Kenizzite, as P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] does in Numbers 32:12. R [Note: Redactor.] also (Genesis 15:18-21) counts the Kenizzites among the pre-Israelitish inhabitants of Palestine. P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] in Genesis 36:42 enrols Kenaz among the ‘dukes’ of Edom, while a Priestly supplementer counts him both as a ‘duke’ and as a grandson of Esau (Genesis 36:11; Genesis 36:16). The Chronicler names Kenaz as a grandson of Esau (1 Chronicles 1:36), and also as a descendant of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:13-15). The probable meaning of all these passages is that the Kenizzites overspread a part of Edom and southern Judah before the Israelitish conquest and continued to abide there, a part of them being absorbed by the Edomites, and a part by the tribe of Judah. This latter portion embraced the clans of Caleb and Othniel.

George A. Barton.