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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7023

קִיר

qirkeer

wall

75 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: qîyr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7023is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 17 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 54
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7023

a wall (as built in a trench)

The King James renders it: [phrase] mason, side, town, [idiom] very, wall.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

qir is rendered "wall". It stands 75 times in the Hebrew text, across seventeen books.

  • Twenty-five of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 30:3Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.
  • The Greek text spells it fifty-four different ways.

The first use

Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.

Exodus 30:3קִירֹתָ֛יו

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twenty-five of the word's seventy-five uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 22 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the wall16
  • in the wall11
  • a wall6
  • on a wall6
  • walls of6
  • in walls of3
  • the walls3
  • and on the wall2
  • and wall of2
  • and walls its2
  • in wall of2
  • side of2

and 11 more, 75 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 75, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

54 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הַקִּ֔יר5
  • הַקִּ֑יר4
  • בְּקִ֔יר3
  • בַּקִּ֔יר3
  • בַקִּ֑יר2
  • בַּקִּ֑יר2
  • בְּקִֽיר׃2
  • הַקִּ֨יר2
  • לְקִ֣יר2
  • קִ֣יר2
  • קִ֔יר2
  • קִיר֨וֹת2

and 42 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular15HTd/Ncmsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular12HRd/Ncmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular8HR/Ncmsa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)6HNcfpc
  • noun · masculine singular6HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HNcmsc
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HR/Ncmsc
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncfpc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural3HTd/Ncfpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HC/Ncfpc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Ncmsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HC/Rd/Ncmsa

Exodus

two uses
  • Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.

    Exodus 30:3

    • קִירֹתָ֛יוkirotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sides its
  • And he overlaid with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns. Then he made a molding of gold around it.

    Exodus 37:26

    • קִירֹתָ֛יוkirotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sides its

Leviticus

five uses
  • Then the priest shall bring it to the altar, twist off its head, and burn it on the altar; its blood should be drained out on the side of the altar.

    Leviticus 1:15

    • קִ֥ירkirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: side of
  • then he is to sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood is drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.

    Leviticus 5:9

    • קִ֣ירkirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: side of
  • He is to examine the house, and if the mildew on the walls consists of green or red depressions that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,

    Leviticus 14:37

    • בְּקִירֹ֣תbekirotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in walls of
    • הַקִּֽיר׃hakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall
  • On the seventh day the priest is to return and inspect the house. If the mildew has spread on the walls,

    Leviticus 14:39

    • בְּקִירֹ֥תbekirotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in walls of

Numbers

three uses
  • And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD and pressed herself against the wall, crushing Balaam’s foot against it. So he beat her once again.

    Numbers 22:25

    • הַקִּ֔ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall
    • הַקִּ֑ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall
  • The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.

    Numbers 35:4

    • מִקִּ֤ירmikirpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from wall of

Joshua

one use
  • Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.

    Joshua 2:15

    • בְּקִ֣ירbekirpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wall of

Judges

one use
  • Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”

    Judges 16:13

    • הַקִּירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: the wall

1 Samuel

six uses
  • and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.

    1 Samuel 18:11

    • וּבַקִּ֑ירuvakirconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and on the wall
  • Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.

    1 Samuel 19:10

    • וּבַקִּ֔ירuvakirconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and on the wall
    • בַּקִּ֑ירbakirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wall
  • He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.

    1 Samuel 20:25

    • הַקִּ֔ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall
  • May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one of Nabal’s men survive until morning.”

    1 Samuel 25:22

    • בְּקִֽיר׃bekirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: on a wall
  • Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”

    1 Samuel 25:34

    • בְּקִֽיר׃bekirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: on a wall

2 Samuel

one use
  • Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.

    2 Samuel 5:11

    • קִ֑ירkirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wall

1 Kings

thirteen uses
  • He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.

    1 Kings 4:33

    • בַּקִּ֑ירbakirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wall
  • Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.

    1 Kings 6:5

    • קִ֨ירkirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
    • קִיר֤וֹתkirotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of
  • The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.

    1 Kings 6:6

    • בְּקִֽירוֹת־bekirot-preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in walls of
  • He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.

    1 Kings 6:15

    • קִיר֨וֹתkirotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of
    • קִיר֣וֹתkirotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of
  • He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

    1 Kings 6:16

    • הַקִּיר֑וֹתhakirotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the walls
  • And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the room their wingtips touched.

    1 Kings 6:27

    • בַּקִּ֔ירbakirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wall
    • בַּקִּ֣ירbakirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wall
  • Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

    1 Kings 6:29

    • קִיר֨וֹתkirotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of
  • Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!

    1 Kings 14:10

    • בְּקִ֔ירbekirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: on a wall
  • As soon as Zimri began to reign and was seated on the throne, he struck down the entire household of Baasha. He did not leave a single male, whether a kinsman or friend.

    1 Kings 16:11

    • בְּקִ֑ירbekirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: on a wall
  • This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.

    1 Kings 21:21

    • בְּקִ֔ירbekirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: on a wall

2 Kings

four uses
  • Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”

    2 Kings 4:10

    • קִיר֙kirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wall
  • The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.

    2 Kings 9:8

    • בְּקִ֔ירbekirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: on a wall
  • “Throw her down!” yelled Jehu. So they threw her down, and her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses as they trampled her underfoot.

    2 Kings 9:33

    • הַקִּ֛ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall
  • Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,

    2 Kings 20:2

    • הַקִּ֑ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, stonemasons, and carpenters, to build a palace for him.

    1 Chronicles 14:1

    • קִ֔ירkirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wall
  • three thousand talents of gold (the gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings,

    1 Chronicles 29:4

    • קִיר֥וֹתkirotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of

2 Chronicles

four uses
  • He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

    2 Chronicles 3:7

    • וְקִֽירוֹתָ֥יוvekirotavconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and walls its
    • הַקִּירֽוֹת׃ סhakirotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the walls
  • The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the wall of the temple, and its other wing was five cubits long and touched the wing of the other cherub.

    2 Chronicles 3:11

    • לְקִ֣ירlekirpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to wall of
  • The wing of the second cherub also measured five cubits and touched the wall of the temple, while its other wing measured five cubits and touched the wing of the first cherub.

    2 Chronicles 3:12

    • לְקִ֣ירlekirpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to wall of

Psalms

one use
  • How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?

    Psalms 62:3

    • כְּקִ֥ירkekirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a wall

Isaiah

four uses
  • For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.

    Isaiah 22:5

    • קִ֖רkirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wall
  • For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

    Isaiah 25:4

    • קִֽיר׃kirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wall
  • Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

    Isaiah 38:2

    • הַקִּ֑ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall
  • Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

    Isaiah 59:10

    • קִ֔ירkirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wall

Jeremiah

one use
  • My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.

    Jeremiah 4:19

    • קִיר֥וֹתkirotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of

Ezekiel

twenty-five uses
  • Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

    Ezekiel 4:3

    • קִ֣ירkirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a wall of
  • Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.

    Ezekiel 8:7

    • בַּקִּֽיר׃bakirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wall
  • “Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway.

    Ezekiel 8:8

    • בַקִּ֑ירvakirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wall
    • בַּקִּ֔ירbakirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wall
  • So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.

    Ezekiel 8:10

    • הַקִּ֖ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall
  • As they watch, dig through the wall and carry your belongings out through it.

    Ezekiel 12:5

    • בַקִּ֑ירvakirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wall
  • So I did as I was commanded. I brought out my bags for exile by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall by hand. I took my belongings out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulder as they watched.

    Ezekiel 12:7

    • בַקִּ֖ירvakirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wall
  • And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so he cannot see the land.

    Ezekiel 12:12

    • בַּקִּ֥ירbakirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wall
  • Surely when the wall has fallen, you will not be asked, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you covered it?’

    Ezekiel 13:12

    • הַקִּ֑ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall
  • I will tear down the wall you whitewashed and level it to the ground, so that its foundation is exposed. The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

    Ezekiel 13:14

    • הַקִּ֨ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall
  • And after I have vented My wrath against the wall and against those who whitewashed it, I will say to you: ‘The wall is gone, and so are those who whitewashed it—

    Ezekiel 13:15

    • בַּקִּ֔ירbakirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: on the wall
    • הַקִּ֔ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall
  • But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

    Ezekiel 23:14

    • הַקִּ֔ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall
  • As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’

    Ezekiel 33:30

    • הַקִּיר֔וֹתhakirotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the walls
  • Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.

    Ezekiel 41:5

    • קִֽיר־kir-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
  • The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

    Ezekiel 41:6

    • בַּקִּ֨ירbakirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wall
    • בְּקִ֥ירbekirpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wall of
  • The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple

    Ezekiel 41:9

    • הַקִּ֧ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall
  • Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.

    Ezekiel 41:12

    • וְקִ֧ירvekirconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and wall of
  • Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

    Ezekiel 41:13

    • וְקִ֣ירוֹתֶ֔יהָvekiroteihaconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and walls its
  • In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary on all the walls, spaced evenly around the inner and outer sanctuary,

    Ezekiel 41:17

    • הַקִּ֨ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall
  • Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary from the floor to the space above the entrance.

    Ezekiel 41:20

    • וְקִ֖ירvekirconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and wall of
  • There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”

    Ezekiel 41:22

    • וְקִֽירֹתָ֖יוvekirotavconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and sides its
  • Cherubim and palm trees like those on the walls were carved on the doors of the outer sanctuary, and there was a wooden canopy outside, on the front of the portico.

    Ezekiel 41:25

    • לַקִּיר֑וֹתlakirotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: to the walls
  • When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.

    Ezekiel 43:8

    • וְהַקִּ֖ירvehakirconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the wall

Amos

one use
  • It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

    Amos 5:19

    • הַקִּ֔ירhakirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wall

Habakkuk

one use
  • For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.

    Habakkuk 2:11

    • מִקִּ֣ירmikirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from wall

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