Kerioth

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kē´ri-oth, -ōth (קריּות, ḳerīyōt, "Cities"h):

(1) A city of Moab, named with Beth-Meon and Bozrah (Jeremiah 48:24, Jeremiah 48:41), called Kirioth in (Amos 2:2). Here was a sanctuary of Chemosh, to which Mesha says (M S, l. 13) he dragged “the altar hearths of Davdoh.” It may possibly be represented by the modern Ḳuraiāt, between Dibān and ‛Aṭṭārūs. Some (e.g. Driver on Amos 2:2) think it may be only another name for Ar-Moab. Buhl (GAP, 270) would identify it with Kir of Moab (Kerak). No certainty is yet possible.

(2) A city in the south of Judah (Joshua 15:25; the Revised Version (British and American) Kerioth-Hezron (which see)), possibly the modern el-Ḳuryatain, to the Northeast of Tell ‛Arād. Judas the traitor was probably a native of this place, and hence his name Iscariot. It has been identified with the ruins of el-Kureitein, about 10 miles south of Hebron.

See Hazor [4].