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Kilmad

KILMAD (kĭl'măd). A town whose merchants traded with Tyre. It is associated with Asshur (Ezek.27.23). The site is unknown, but perhaps it is modern Kalwadha near Baghdad.



CHILMAD kĭl măd (כִּלְמַ֥ד). (LXX Χαρμάν). A place of unknown location, associated with Asshur in Ezekiel 27:23. The text is uncertain.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)

A city or district mentioned after Sheba and Asshur as supplying merchandise to Tyre (Eze 27:23). By changing "m" into "w" (common in Assytoprian-Babylonian) this has been compared with Kalwadha near Bagdad (G. Smith, Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, I, 61; Delitzsch, Paradies, 206), but the identification seems improbable. Though regarded as the name of a country in the Septuagint and the Vulgate (Jerome’s Latin Bible, 390-405 A. D.) (Charman; Chelmad), there is some doubt whether this view of the word is correct. The Targum substitutes Madhai, "Media," and on this account Mez (Stadt Harran, 24) amends to Kol Madhai, "all Media." The absence of the copula "and" has caused others to further modify the vocalization, and by reading kelimmudh instead of Chilmad, the sense "Asshur was as the apprentice of thy trading" (Qimchi, Hitzig, Cornill) is obtained, but is not satisfactory. Probably both text and translation are susceptible of improvement.