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).


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Definition of Kedar:
"blackness; sorrow"