CABBON (kab'bon), kab-bone'; Sept.
Xa/3,4ct, circle, hamlet, hilly), a town in the low country (Shefelah) of Judah (Josh. xv:40), which is only once mentioned, perhaps identical with Maclibenah (t Citron. ii:49). Three places have been suggested as its site—el-Kuferr, ten miles southeast of Ashkelon; el-Kubeibeh, near Reit fibrin ; and Abu Kabds. Davis' Bib. Dia. says: Perhaps identical with Machbenali(1 Cliron.
The radical letters are the same and the location is suitable.
CABIN vault, a cell).
In the East the prison often consisted of a pit (dungeon), with vaulted cells around it for the separate confinement of prisoners (Jcr. xxxvii: t6). The idea conveyed is that the prophet suf fered the most severe and loathsome imprison ment.
CABUL kaw-boof. . meaning uncertain, perhaps sterile or worthless).
1. A district given to Hiram, King of Tyre, by Solomon, in acknowledgment of the important services which he had rendered toward the build ing of the Temple (i Kings ix:13).
Hiram was by no means pleased with the gift, and the district received the name of Cabul (un fieasing) from this circumstance. The situation of Cabul has been disputed, but we arc content to accept the information of Josephus viii :5, 3). who seems to place it in the northwest part of Galilee. adjacent to Tyre. In Galilee it is also placed by the Septuagint. There was a town named Cabul in the tribe of Zebultin (Josh. xix :27), and as it was in Galilee it is possible that it was one of the twenty towns consigned to Hiram, who, to mark his dissatisfaction, applied the significant name of this one town to the whole district. 1 he cause of iiram's dislike to what Solomon doubtless considered a liberal gift is very uncertain. It has been conjectured (Pic torial Bible, note on 1 Kings ix :13) that 'proba bly, as the Plurnicians were a maritime and commercial people, Hiram wished rather for a part of the coast, which was now in the hands of Sol omon, and was not therefore prepared to ap prove of a district which might have been of considerable value in the eves of an agricultural people like the Hebrews. Perhaps the towns were
in part payment of what Solomon owed Hiram for his various services and contributions.' 2. A town of Asher (Josh. xix :27). 11 is still known as Kabul, a village nine miles east southeast of Acre.
CiESAR (cir'zar), (Gr. Kattrap, kai':ar), a name assumed by, or conferred upon, all the Roman emperors after Julius Caesar. In this way it be came a sort of title like Pharaoh, and, as such, is usually applied to the emperors about thirty times in the New Testament, without their distinctive proper names. (See AUGUSTUS.) This name was adopted by Octavius, subse quently known as Augustus, after the death of his uncle Julius Cesar, and passed on to his suc cessors as the official designation of the Roman emperors until the third century A. D., when it came to be used for the junior partners in the government in distinction from the title Augus tus, which was reserved for the supreme rulers. No name was ready at hand to describe the unique office of the real autocrat in a nominal republic. While the word 'king' was hated at Rome on account of its associations with the legendary history of the city, and despised by the victorious generals who were familiar with it as the title of defeated Oriental rulers, the fame of Julius Cesar suggested the use of his name by his heir.
The following Caesars fall within New Testa ment times: Augustus . . B.C. 31-A.D. 14.
Tiberius . • • A.D.
Cab's (Caligula) . " 37-41.
Claudius . • " Nero • • • " Galba . . . " 68-69.
Otho. •• .
Vitellius . . " 69.
Vespasian . . " 69-79.
Titus . . . " 7o-81.
Domitian . . 81-96.
(\\'. V. Adeney, Hastings' Bib Did.) The Caesars mentioned in the New Testament are Augustus (Luke ii:1), Tiberius (Luke iii:t ; xx :22), Claudius (Acts xi:28). Nero (Acts xxv :8) ; Caligula, who succeeded Tiberius, is not mentioned.
ClESAREA (Gr. Kaardpria, kahee sar'i-a, in honor of Caesar). There were two im portant towns in Palestine thus named in compli ment to Roman emperors.