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# קִרְיָה

Biblical Aramaic

**city** — used 9 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

city [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b4_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִרְיָה: n.f. city [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b4_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** -ָא, n.f. city (𝔗 Syriac; S-C A 9 + קריה; v. BH, √ קרה; also Nö Beitr. 62);—abs. ה—ָ Ezr 4:10, א—ָ v 15; emph. קִרְיְתָא v 12, 13, 15(×2), 16, 19, 21

### Jastrow 1903

קִרְיָה II: townsman, villager [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b4_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (= קִרְיָאָה, v. קוּרְיָיאָה a. קִרְיָיא)townsman, villager. Gen. R. s. 18 (ref. to Gen. II, 22) טבוי לק׳ דמלכא שושביניה lucky is the townsman whose groomsman is the king (‘Rashi’ טבות לקרתא דמלכא שושבינה); Yalk. ib. 24 טובוי לקי׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (17 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (7); \[is\] a city (1); the city (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.21/#tree)

כְּעַן֙ שִׂ֣ימוּ טְּעֵ֔םלְבַטָּלָ֖א גֻּבְרַיָּ֣א אִלֵּ֑ךְ וְקִרְיְתָ֥א דָךְ֙ לָ֣א תִתְבְּנֵ֔א עַד־מִנִּ֖י טַעְמָ֥א יִתְּשָֽׂם׃

*Word for word:* now make a.decree to make.to.cease the men these and the city this not it.will.be.built until from me the decree it.will.be.made

*JPS 1917:* Make ye now a decree to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until a decree shall be made by me.

[Ezra 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.10/#tree)

וּשְׁאָ֣ר אֻמַּיָּ֗א דִּ֤י הַגְלִי֙ אָסְנַפַּר֙ רַבָּ֣א וְיַקִּירָ֔א וְהוֹתֵ֣ב הִמּ֔וֹ בְּקִרְיָ֖ה דִּ֣י שָׁמְרָ֑יִן וּשְׁאָ֥ר עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֖ה וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃

*Word for word:* and the.rest of the.nations which he.took.into.exile Osnappar (the) great and (the) honorable and he.caused.to.dwell them in the.city (diy).of Samaria and the.rest of.the.region.beyond the river and now

*JPS 1917:* and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asenappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and the rest that are in the country beyond the River: — 'And now —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5b4_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b4_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).