Bible Location
Meaning: hardness; soreness · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Kishion was an Issacharite town assigned to the Gershonite Levites. It is important because it shows how smaller settlements contributed to Israel's Levitical system. First appears in Josh 19:20.1
Place meaning
hardness; soreness
Coordinates
32.56, 35.25
First appears
Josh 19:20
AI summary: Kishion matters through allocation rather than drama. Its references preserve it as a town of Issachar handed to the Levites, reinforcing how worship depended on a distributed network of places. The cross references present Kishion as a northern town supporting Levitical life.1
Place meaning
hardness; soreness
Latitude
32.56
Longitude
35.25
Bible references
2
Hardness, a city of Issachar assigned to the Gershonite Levites (Josh. 19:20), the same as Kishon (21:28). 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.