CAMON (Ica'nu5n), (Heb. kaw-moni, stand ing place, fastness), the place where Jair, the judge, was buried (Judg. x:5).
According to Joscphus it was a city of Gilead. Eusehius and Jerome identify It with Cyamon, in the plain of Esdraclon.
CAMP (IcAmp). Sec ENCANIPMENTS. CAMPHIRE (krim'fir). See KOPIIER.
CANA (ka'na), (Gr. Kama, kana/1), a town in Galilee, not far from Capernaiim, where Christ performed his first miracle by turning water into wine (John iv:46).
This Cana is not named in the Old Testament, but is mentioned by Joscphus as a village of Galilee (Vita, sec. t6, 64 ; Pe Bell. dud. i. t7. 5). The site has long been identified with the present Kefr Kenna, a small place about four miles north east from Nazareth, on one of the roads to Tibe rias. It is a neat village, pleasantly situated on the descent of a hill looking to the southwest, and surrounded by plantations of olive and other fruit trees. There is a large- spring in the neigh
borhood, enclosed by a wall, which, if this be tit: Cana of the New Testament, is doubtless that from which water was drawn at the tune of our Lord's visit. It. is also observable that water pots of compact limestone arc still used in this neighborhood, and some old ones are, as might be expected, shown as those which once contained the miraculous wine. Here are also the remains of a Greek church, and of a house said to be that of Nathanael, who was a native of Cana (John 1). The view which we give is that of the traditional Cana. (See cut, in ArTEstax.) There is a ruined place called Karla el-Jelil. about eight miles N. 1:! E. from Nazareth, which Dr. Robinson is inclined to regard as the more probable site of Cana. The Palestine explorers who call the place Khurbet Kana revert to the traditional view.