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•CONCUPISCENCE desire, Romans 7:8 (R.V., “coveting”); Colossians 3:5 (R.V., “desire”). The “lust of concupiscence” (1 Thessalonians 4:5; R.V., “passion of lust”) denotes evil desire, indwelling sin.
•CONDUIT a water-course or channel (Job 38:25). The “conduit of the upper pool” (Isaiah 7:3) was formed by Hezekiah for the purpose of conveying the waters from the upper pool in the valley of Gihon to the west side of the city of David (2 Kings 18:17; 20:20; 2 Chronicles 32:30). In carrying out this work he stopped “the waters of the fountains which were without the city” i.e., “the upper water-course of Gihon”, and conveyed it down from the west through a canal into the city, so that in case of a siege the inhabitants of the city might have a supply of water, which would thus be withdrawn from the enemy. (See SILOAM.)
There are also the remains of a conduit which conducted water from the so-called “Pools of Solomon,” beyond Bethlehem, into the city. Water is still conveyed into the city from the fountains which supplied these pools by a channel which crosses the valley of Hinnom.
•CONEY (Hebrews shaphan; i.e., “the hider”), an animal which inhabits the mountain gorges and the rocky districts of Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land. “The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks” (Proverbs 30:26; Psalm 104:18). They are gregarious, and “exceeding wise” (Proverbs 30:24), and are described as chewing the cud (Leviticus 11:5; Deuteronomy 14:7).
The animal intended by this name is known among naturalists as the Hyrax Syriacus. It is neither a ruminant nor a rodent, but is regarded as akin to the