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# קִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7024

**Kir** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Kir [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7024/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִיר³: n.pr.terr. et gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7024/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr. et gent. ק׳ orig. house of Aramaic Am 9:7; קִ֫ירָה as place of exile Am 1:5; 2 K 16:9 (𝔊 τὴν πόλιν); קִיר as people in Assyrian army Is 22:6 (v 5 vid. i. קִיר ad fin.).—Location dub., v. conspectus of older views Dr Am 1:5; plausible is some tribe in S. Babylonia, E. of Tigris WklAT Unters. 178, cf. HalRÉJ; xi. 60;—WMMHast. DB kir everywhere del., or em. קוֹעַ, but v. i. קִיר 3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kir (2); to (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 22:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.6/#tree)

וְעֵילָם֙ נָשָׂ֣א אַשְׁפָּ֔ה בְּרֶ֥כֶב אָדָ֖ם פָּֽרָשִׁ֑ים וְקִ֥יר עֵרָ֖ה מָגֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Elam it.took.up a.quiver with chariotry of.a.man horsemen and Kir it.laid.bare a.shield

*JPS 1917:* And Elam bore the quiver, with troops of men, even horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

[2 Kings 16:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.16.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.16.9/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע אֵלָיו֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר וַיַּעַל֩ מֶ֨לֶךְ אַשּׁ֤וּר אֶל־דַּמֶּ֙שֶׂק֙ וַֽיִּתְפְּשֶׂ֔הָ וַיַּגְלֶ֖הָ קִ֑ירָה וְאֶת־רְצִ֖ין הֵמִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and he.listened to him the.king of.Assyria and he.came.up the.king of.Assyria to Damascus and he seized.it and he took.it.into.exile to Kir and (et) Rezin he.put.to.death

*JPS 1917:* And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7024.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7024/): 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).