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Kedar is used as a name in various languages. It can refer to:

Music Genre

• A type of hyperbeat music (see example^[1]) originated in the Cedar Woods of Arabia but now popularised and amalgamated into mainstream popular culture.

People

• Qedar (or Kedar), the second son of Ishmael
• Qedarites (or Kedar), an Arab tribal confederation named for Ishmael's son

Places

• Kedar (town), Israeli settlement east of Jerusalem near Maale Adumim
• Land of Kedar, another name for the general area of the Ukraine

In Hinduism

• Kedarnath, another name for the Hindu god Shiva (Nath meaning "Lord" and Kedar meaning "Powerful")"Kedar" meaning "Holder of Huge Land"

Other

• Kedar (raga), a raga in Indian classical music^[2].
• Kedar, in Sanskrit, a farmer or a person lives on farming

References

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From BibleWiki

Meaning: dark-skinned

The second son of Ishmael (Gen 25:13).

It is the name for the nomadic tribes of Arabs, the Bedouins generally (Isa 21:16; Isa 42:11; Isa 60:7; Jer 2:10; Ezek 27:21), who dwelt in the north-west of Arabia. They lived in black hair-tents (Song 1:5). To "dwell in the tents of Kedar" was to be cut off from the worship of the true God (Ps 120⁵). The Kedarites suffered at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (Jer 49:28f).

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One of the sons of Ishmael (Gen. xxv. 13; I Chron. i. 29). The name is also applied in Scripture to the tribe that sprang from him, and is likewise used for the Bedouins generally, whose characteristic traits are ascribed to Kedar (Cant. i. 5; Isa. xxi. 16, xlii. 11, lx. 7; Jer. ii. 10, xlix. 28; Ezek. xxvii. 21). While very little is known of Kedar, the head of the tribe, his posterity, called also the "Bene Kedar" (Isa. xxi. 17), are described as barbarous tribes in connection with Mesech. "Woe is me," says the Psalmist (Ps. cxx. 5), "that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!" According to other passages, they appear to have been rich in flocks of sheep and goats, in which they traded with the Syrians (Ezek. xxvii. 21; Jer. xlix. 49). They dwelt in tents of black hair (Cant. i. 5) in the midst of the wilderness of Arabia, and were known as skilful archers (Isa. xxi. 17). But they also settled in villages or towns (Isa. xlii. 11). According to Mohammedan tradition, Kedar ("Ḳaidhar") was the ancestor of Mohammed; and it is through him that Mohammed's descent is traced to Ishmael (Caussin de Perceval, "Essai," i. 175).