Shaveh-kiriathaim

Shay´vuh-kihr-ee-uh-thay´im; Heb., “plain of Kiriathaim”

The plain where the Elamite king Chedorlaomer fought and subdued the Emim (Gen 14:5). On the basis of the location in Kiriathaim the plain should be somewhere near el-Qereiyat, northwest of Dibon in what is now Jordan.