"Kenites", a collective name for a tribe of people who originally inhabited the rocky and desert region lying between Southern Palestine and the mountains of Sinai adjoining and even partly intermingling with-the Amalekites (Num 24:21; 1Sa 15:6). In the time of Abraham they possessed a part of that country which the Lord promised to him (Gen 15:19), and which extended from Egypt to the Euphrates (Gen 15:18). At the Exodus the Kenites pastured their flocks round Sinai and Horeb. Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, was a Kenite (Jdg 1:16); and it was when Moses kept his flocks on the heights of Horeb that the Lord appeared to him in the burning bush (Exo 3:1-2). Now Jethro is said to have beci "priest of Midian" (Exo 3:1), and a "Midianite" (Num 10:29); hence we conclude that the Midianites and Kenites were identical. It seems, however, that there were two distinct tribes of Midianites, one descended from Abraham's son by Keturah (Gen 25:2), and the other an elder Arabian tribe.