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Kirjath

City; vocation; Kirjath is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “city; vocation; meeting.” This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H7157
Hebrew
קִרְיַת יְעָרִים · Qiryath Yᵉʻârîym
Name meaning
city; vocation; meeting According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

קִרְיַת יְעָרִים

H7157
Transliteration
Qiryath Yᵉʻârîym
Pronunciation
keer-yath' yeh-aw-reem'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
38

Glosses

Kirjath, Kirjath-jearim, Kirjath-arim.

Lexicon definition

Kirjath-Jearim or Kirjath-Arim, a place in Palestine

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Kirjath

city; vocation; meeting

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Kirjath

Meaning:
city; vocation; meeting

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

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KIRJATH-ARBA

Nave’s Topical Bible references for KIRJATH-ARBA.

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KIRJATH-HUZOTH

Nave’s Topical Bible references for KIRJATH-HUZOTH.

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KIRJATH-JEARIM

Nave’s Topical Bible references for KIRJATH-JEARIM.

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KIRJATH-SANNAH

Nave’s Topical Bible references for KIRJATH-SANNAH.

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KIRJATH-SEPHER

Nave’s Topical Bible references for KIRJATH-SEPHER.

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Dictionary

Baale of Judah

Lords of Judah, a city in the tribe of Judah from which David brought the ark into Jerusalem (2 Sam. 6:2). Elsewhere (1 Chr. 13:6) called Kirjath-jearim. (See [42]BAALAH.)

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Kirjath-arba

city of four; fourth city

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Kirjath-arim

city of those who watch

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Kirjath-baal

city of Baal, or of a ruler

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Kirjath-huzoth

city of streets; populous city

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Kirjath-jearim

city of woods

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Kirjath-sannah

city of enmity, or of a blackberry bush

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Kirjath-sepher

city of letters, or of the book

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Kirjath

city; vocation; meeting

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Mahaneh-dan

Judg. 18:12 = "camp of Dan" 13:25 (R.V., "Mahaneh-dan"), a place behind (i.e., west of) Kirjath-jearim, where the six hundred Danites from Zorah and Eshtaol encamped on their way to capture the city of Laish, which they rebuilt and called "Dan, after the name of their father" (18:11-31). The Palestine Explorers point to a ruin called Erma, situated about 3 miles from the great corn valley on the east of Samson's home.

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Perez-uzzah

The breach of Uzzah, a place where God "burst forth upon Uzzah, so that he died," when he rashly "took hold" of the ark (2 Sam. 6:6-8). It was not far from Kirjath-jearim (q.v.).

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