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# קִרְיָתַיִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7156

**Kiriathaim** — used 7 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

Kiriathaim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7156/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִרְיָתַ֫יִם: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7156/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Καριαθαιμ (perhaps double city (du.), yet in gen. on יִם—ַ in n.pr.loc. v. Ges§ 88 c);— in Moab (MI10) Je 48:1 (-תָ֑יִם), v 23, so קִרְיָתָ֑יְמָה Ez 25:9 Qr (Kt קריתמה); Reubenite city according to Nu 32:37 (-תָ֑יִם) Jos 13:19; שָׁוֵה קִרְיָתָ֑יִם Gn 14:5 plain of Ḳiryathaim (v. שָׁוֵה); mod. Ḳurêyât, c. 1 1/4 m. SE. from (Mt.) ʿAṭṭarus (עֲטָרוֹת), and 6 3/4 m. NNW. from Dibon; GASmGeogr. 567 f. BuhlGeogr. 267. Levit. city in Naphtali 1 Ch 6:61, = קַרְתָּן ‖ Jos 21:32 (Θεμμων, 𝔊L Καρθαν).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kiriathaim (6); (to) (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 32:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.37/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֤י רְאוּבֵן֙ בָּנ֔וּ אֶת־חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן וְאֶת־אֶלְעָלֵ֑א וְאֵ֖ת קִרְיָתָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and the.descendants of.Reuben they.built (et) Heshbon and (et) Elealeh and (et) Kiriathaim

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim;

[Joshua 13:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.19/#tree)

וְקִרְיָתַ֣יִם וְשִׂבְמָ֔ה וְצֶ֥רֶת הַשַּׁ֖חַר צֶ֥רֶת הַשַּׁ֖חַר בְּהַ֥ר הָעֵֽמֶק׃

*Word for word:* and Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth Shahar on the.hill of the.valley

*JPS 1917:* and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zerethshahar in the mount of the valley;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7156.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7156/): 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).