Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H7153
קִרְיַת אַרְבַּע
Qiryath Arbakeer-yath' ar-bah'
Kiriath-arba
18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Qiryath ʼArbaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7153is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7153
Kirjath-Arba or Kirjath-ha-Arba, a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Kirjath-arba.
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
Qiryath Arba is rendered "Kiriath-arba". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 23:2She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.
Genesis 23:2בְּקִרְיַ֥ת
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
- Arba7
- Kiriath6
- the Arba2
- and Kiriath1
- at Kiriath1
- in Kiriath1
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.
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- אַרְבַּ֛ע4
- קִרְיַ֣ת3
- קִרְיַ֥ת2
- אַרְבַּ֔ע1
- אַרְבַּ֨ע1
- אַרְבַּ֑ע1
- בְּקִרְיַ֥ת1
- בְּקִרְיַ֤ת1
- הָֽאַרְבַּ֑ע1
- הָֽאַרְבַּע֙1
- וְקִרְיַ֥ת1
- קִרְיַת֩1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)14HNpl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2HR/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npl
- the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)1HTd/Npl
Genesis
four uses
She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.
- בְּקִרְיַ֥תbekiryatpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Kiriath
- אַרְבַּ֛עʾarba'proper noun (a name)tagged: Arba
Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
- קִרְיַ֣תkiryatproper noun (a name)tagged: Kiriath
- הָֽאַרְבַּ֑עhaarba'proper noun (a name)tagged: the Arba
Joshua
ten uses
(Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.
- קִרְיַ֣תkiryatproper noun (a name)tagged: Kiriath
- אַרְבַּ֔עʾarba'proper noun (a name)tagged: Arba
According to the LORD’s command to him, Joshua gave Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah—Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)
- קִרְיַ֥תkiryatproper noun (a name)tagged: Kiriath
- אַרְבַּ֛עʾarba'proper noun (a name)tagged: Arba
Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior—nine cities, along with their villages.
- וְקִרְיַ֥תvekiryatconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Kiriath
- אַרְבַּ֛עʾarba'proper noun (a name)tagged: Arba
So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
- קִרְיַ֥תkiryatproper noun (a name)tagged: Kiriath
- אַרְבַּ֛עʾarba'proper noun (a name)tagged: Arba
They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pasturelands, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.)
- קִרְיַת֩kiryatproper noun (a name)tagged: Kiriath
- אַרְבַּ֨עʾarba'proper noun (a name)tagged: Arba
Judges
two uses
Judah also marched against the Canaanites who were living in Hebron (formerly known as Kiriath-arba), and they struck down Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
- קִרְיַ֣תkiryatproper noun (a name)tagged: Kiriath
- אַרְבַּ֑עʾarba'proper noun (a name)tagged: Arba
Nehemiah
two uses
As for the villages with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba, Dibon, Jekabzeel, and their villages;
- בְּקִרְיַ֤תbekiryatpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Kiriath
- הָֽאַרְבַּע֙haarba'the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Arba
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 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.