Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7151
קִרְיָה
qiryahkir-yaw'
town
29 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qiryâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7151is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7151
building; a city
The King James renders it: city.
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
qiryah is rendered "town". It stands 29 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 21:28For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
Numbers 21:28מִקִּרְיַ֣ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a town12
- town of5
- a town of3
- town3
- the town2
- from town1
- from town of1
- more than a town of1
- O town1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 29, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 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
- קִרְיָ֖ה8
- קִרְיַ֖ת4
- קִרְיָ֑ה3
- קִרְיָ֔ה2
- קִרְיַ֣ת2
- הַקִּרְיָ֖ה1
- הַקִּרְיָ֑ה1
- מִקִּרְיָ֜ה1
- מִקִּרְיַ֣ת1
- מִקִּרְיַת־1
- קִרְיָ֥ה1
- קִרְיָֽה׃ ס1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular15HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)9HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncfsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HTd/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Numbers
one use
For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
- מִקִּרְיַ֣תmikiryatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from town of
Deuteronomy
two uses
From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
- קִרְיָ֔הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a town
At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- קִרְיָ֔הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a town
1 Kings
two uses
Now Adonijah and all his guests were finishing their feast when they heard the sound of the ram’s horn. “Why is the city in such a loud uproar?” asked Joab.
- הַקִּרְיָ֖הhakiryahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the town
Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there with rejoicing that rings out in the city. That is the noise you hear.
- הַקִּרְיָ֑הhakiryahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the town
Job
one use
He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
- קִרְיָ֑הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a town
Psalms
one use
Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
- קִ֝רְיַ֗תkiryatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: town of
Proverbs
five uses
The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
- קִרְיַ֣תkiryatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a town of
When the righteous thrive, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.
- קִרְיָ֑הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a town
A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
- קִרְיַ֣תkiryatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: town of
An offended brother is harder to win than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.
- מִקִּרְיַת־mikiryat-preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: more than a town of
Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.
- קִרְיָ֑הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a town
Isaiah
ten uses
See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!
- קִרְיָ֖הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a town
I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
- קִרְיָ֖הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a town
O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
- קִרְיָ֖הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: O town
The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.
- קִרְיַת־kiryat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: town of
Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
- קִרְיָ֥הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a town
Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
- קִרְיַ֛תkiryatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a town of
For He has humbled those who dwell on high; He lays the lofty city low. He brings it down to the ground; He casts it into the dust.
- קִרְיָ֖הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a town
Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.
- קִרְיַ֖תkiryatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: town
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
- קִרְיָ֖הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a town
Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
- קִרְיַ֖תkiryatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: town of
Jeremiah
one use
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
- קִרְיַ֖תkiryatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: town of
Lamentations
one use
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
- קִרְיָֽה׃ סkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a town
Hosea
one use
Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.
- קִרְיַ֖תkiryatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a town of
Micah
one use
Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!
- מִקִּרְיָ֜הmikiryahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: from town
Habakkuk
three uses
Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
- קִרְיָ֖הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: town
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
- קִרְיָ֖הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a town
For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
- קִרְיָ֖הkiryahnoun · feminine singulartagged: town
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.