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# קִרְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7151

**town** — used 29 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

town [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7151/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִרְיָה: n.f. town, city [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7151/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. town, city (syn. of עִיר, chiefly poet., and in the higher style; perhaps from above √ as meeting-place of men; cf. n.pr.loc. MI13 קרית, l.10 קריתן; J.Aram. קַרְיָה);—abs. ק׳ Is 1:21 +; cstr. קִרְיַת Nu 21:28 +;— in gen. Dt 2:36; 3:4. of specif. towns, Ho 6:8 (גִּלְעָד, 𝔊Codd. Γαλγαλα, cf. Now); קִרְיַת סִיחֹן Nu 21:28; Damascus, ק׳ מְשׂוֹשִׂי Je 49:25 (‖ עִיר תְּהִלָּה); especially of Jerus. Mi 4:10; Is 29:1; 33:20, רְחֹבוֹת ק׳ La 2:11, ק׳ מֶלֶךְ רָ֑ב ψ 48:3, city for inhab. 1 K 1:41, 45, ק׳ נֶאֱמָנָה Is 1:21, 26 (‖ עִיר הַצֶּדֶק), ק׳ עַלִּיזָה 22:2 (‖ עִיר הוֹמִיָּה), 32:13. in Is 24–26 coll., i.e. denoting various, representative, cities, ק׳ תֹּהוּ 24:10, ק׳ בְּצוּרָה 25:2, ק׳ גּוֹיִם עָרִיצִים v 3, ק׳ נִשְׂגָּבָה 26:5; so prob. Hb 2:8, 17. indef., Hb 2:12, (‖ עִיר); Pr 29:8, ק׳ עֹז 18:19 a city of strength, so ק׳ עֻזּוֹ 10:15 (in fig.) = 18:11 (id.); = inhab., 11:10, הֲמוֹן ק׳ Jb 39:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 29 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a town (11); the town (5); \[is\] the town (2).

## In the verses

[Hosea 6:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.6.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.6.8/#tree)

גִּלְעָ֕ד קִרְיַ֖ת פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן עֲקֻבָּ֖ה מִדָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* Gilead \[is\].a.town of.\[those.who\].do (of).wickedness tracked from blood

*JPS 1917:* Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is covered with footprints of blood.

[Job 39:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.7/#tree)

יִ֭שְׂחַק לַהֲמ֣וֹן קִרְיָ֑ה תְּשֻׁא֥וֹת נ֝וֹגֵ֗שׂ לֹ֣א יִשְׁמָֽע׃

*Word for word:* it.laughs to.\[the\] tumult of.a.town \[the\].shouting(s) of.a.driver not it.hears

*JPS 1917:* He scorneth the tumult of the city, neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7151.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7151/): 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).