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Qiryat ArbaQiryat Arba or Kiryat Arba (קִרְיַת־אַרְבַּע "Town of the Four Giants" , Standard Hebrew Qiryat Arbaʿ, Tiberian Hebrew Qiryaṯ-ʾarbaʿ; KJV Bible Kirjath-arba) is an illegal Israeli settlement adjoining the city of Hebron. The area dates back to Abraham and Sarah. In the Book of Joshua (14:15) it says: "Now the name of Hebron previously was Kiryat Arba, he Arba was the great man among the giants Anakim..." http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0614.htm. According to the rabbinical commentator Rashi, Kiryat Arba ("Town of Arba") means either the town (kirya) of Arba himself, the giant who had three sons, or is referring to four giants: Arba and his three sons, Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmi who are described as being the sons of a "giant" in the Book of Numbers (13:22): "On the way through the Negev, they (Joshua and Caleb) came to Hebron where saw Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi, descendants of the Giant (ha-anak)..." http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp?ACTION=displaypage&BOOK=4&CHAPTER=13 which is according to the Targum and Saadia Gaon, but some say that Anak ("Giant") is a proper name (Targum Jonathan and the Septuagint). http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp?ACTION=displaypage&BOOK=4&CHAPTER=13#C2984, and that he, Anak, may have been the father of the three others mentioned in the Book of Numbers as living in Hebron which the Book of Joshua says was previously called Kiryat Arba. After this Palestinian city was occupied by the Israeli military following the Six-Day War in 1967, Jewish settlers founded Kiryat Arba immediately east of the modern city of Hebron. The settlement, which is illegal by terms of international law and the Geneva Conventions, remains in place to this day.
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