Uknaz (Hastings' Dictionary)

For nji?< in 1 Ch 4" AVm gives 'Uknaz' instead of 'even Kenaz' (AV) or 'and Kenaz' (RV). In all probability something haa dropped out of tlie text, which had read originally ' tlie sons of Elah : . . and Kenaz.' This is favoured by the plural sons. An alternative is to drop the i, with LXX (nal i/!oi 'A6d- Kev^f) and Vulg. (Filii quoque Ela: Cenez), and read simply Kenaz (ijj). ULAI CW, Theod. Oi'/SdX, LXX Oi-Xol).— The classical Eulajus, now the Knrun.

It flowed past Susa or Sliuslian, and Assurbanipal states that in the battle fought outside that city between the Assyrians and the Elamites, the Ula (or Ulai) was clioked with the bodies of the slain. In Dn 8'^ " it is similarly described as flowing past Shushan. The Eula;us is also called Pasitifjris by the classical geographers, and Pliny (II N vi. 27) says that it surrounded the citadel of Su.sa. But the rivers of Susiana have so changed their cliannels since the cla.

ssical epoch as to make their identification with the present rivers of the country somewliat difficult. It would seem, however, that what are now the Upper Kcrkhah and the Lower KarOn were formerly a single stream (see SllU.snAN). A cuneiform tablet ((('.4/11. 51. ■!2) describes the Ulft as ' the water wliich carries its treasures into tlie <leep' (but see Driver on Dn 8", and Dieulafoi, as cited p. 128 n.) A. H. Savce.