Al-Qaryatayn, Palestine

Khirbet al-Qaryatayn (also spelled el-Qaryatein in the Hebron Hills) is a ruin located around 20 km south of Hebron in the West Bank of Palestine, southeast of as-Samu.

It is identified with קְרִיּוֹת (Hebrew: Qərîyyōṯ, "cities/towns") and the Biblical Kerioth in the Negev that was allotted to Judah (Joshua 15:25). Some Christian traditions interpret the epithet "Iscariot" in the name of Judas Iscariot as the "man of Kerioth"; this interpretation remains debated in scholarship.

In Arabic, the term khirbet is the conjunctive form of "ruin" (خرب, khirba, khirbeh, kharab).

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