(dark-skinned), the second in order of the sons of Ishmael (Genesis 25:13; 1 Chronicles 1:29), and the name of a great tribe of Arabs settled on the northwest of the peninsula and on the confines of Palestine. The “glory of Kedar” is recorded by the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 21:13-17) in the burden upon Arabia, and its importance may also be inferred from the “princes of Kedar” mentioned by Ezekiel (Ezekiel 27:21), as well as the pastoral character of the tribe. They appear also to have been, like the wandering tribes of the present day, “archers” and “mighty men.” (Isaiah 21:17, comp. Psalms 120:5). That they also settled in villages or towns we find from Isaiah (Isaiah 42:11). The tribe seems to have been one of the most conspicuous of all the Ishmaelite tribes, and hence the rabbins call the Arabians universally by this name.