Lexical Definition

‎קָמוֹן‎ Qâmôwn (kaw-mone') Kamon ^N:N--L
from ‎קוּם‎; an elevation

Camon.

• § Camon = "raised"
• Kamon, a place East of the Jordan

1) the place in Gilead where the judge Jair was buried

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎קָמוֺן‎ proper name, of a location Judg 10:5, Παμνων, A Παμμω (ᵐ5^L Καλκων); in Gilead Jos^Ant. see 7, 6 (Καμων); probably = Καμουν of Polyb^{see 70, 12} (named next after Πελλα); Buhl^{Geogr. 256} thinks of †umêm, †amm (Schumacher^{Northern Ajlûn 137 f.}), between Jarmuk and Jabbok, west of Irbid.

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Kamon • The burial place of Jair, a judge of Israel

Kamon, a city in Gilead where Jair, a judge of Israel, was buried (Judges 10:5).

• A location in Gilead גִּלְעָד only mentioned at Jdg.10.5;
• only referred to as Kamon קָמוֹן.
  

Kamon is a city mentioned in the Bible as the burial place of Jair, who judged Israel for twenty-two years (Judges 10:3-5). The city was located in the region of Gilead, east of the Jordan River, but its exact location is uncertain. Some scholars propose that Kamon may be identified with the ruins of Qamm, southeast of the Sea of Galilee, or Qumeim, east-northeast of Irbid in modern-day Jordan.

All entries for Kamon: קָמוֹן