Kinah

Kinah appears once in Scripture in the long Joshua 15 catalog of Judah's Negev inheritance: "Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan" (Joshua 15:21-23). The town belongs to the cluster of frontier settlements on the far-southern edge of Judah's tribal allotment, where the cultivated land gave way to the Edomite-Amalekite desert margin. Some scholars associate Kinah with the Kenite clan (related to Moses's father-in-law Jethro), suggesting the name preserves the memory of a settled Kenite group in the southern Judean Negev.