Kamon

KAMON (Καμών, LXX.), a town in Gilead, belonging to the tribe of Manasseh, where Jair died. (Judges, 10.5; comp. J. AJ.) The Kamona (Καμωνά) of Eusebius, which lay 6 M. P. to the N. of Legio (Onomast. s. v. ), must have been another place of the same name; but the city which Polybius (Plb. 5.70) calls Camus (Καμοῦς), and which was taken, with other places in Peraea, by Antiochus, is identical with the town in Gilead. (Reland, Palaest. 649; Winer, s. v.; Von Raumer, Palest. p. 242; Ritter, Erdkunde, vol. 15. p. 1026.)