One of the four towns of the Gibeonite league, whose people tricked Joshua into a treaty with worn-out sandals and dry bread and were spared as cutters of wood and drawers of water (Joshua 9:17, now on these pages). The name looks like kefir, a young lion, or kefar, a village; which was meant is not known. It is later counted among the towns of Benjamin (Joshua 18:26), and it comes back from exile beside two of its old partners — Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three (Nehemiah 7:29; Ezra 2:25 spells the first town Kiriath-arim; none of these yet on these pages): three of the four league towns still listed together centuries later. ⚠ The identification with Khirbet Kefireh, which keeps the name, is widely accepted but rests on the name and the setting rather than on an inscription; the point is marked approximate.