STRONGS NUMBER H7024


Word Summary
Qiyr: "wall", a city in Moab
Original Word: קִיר
Transliteration: Qiyr
Phonetic Spelling: (keer)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: "wall", a city in Moab
Meaning: Kir -- "wall", a city in Moab
Strong's Concordance
Kir

The same as qiyr; fortress; Kir, a place in Assyrian; also one in Moab -- Kir. Compare Qiyr Cheres.

see HEBREW qiyr

see HEBREW Qiyr Cheres

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7024. Qiyr

II. קִיר‎ in proper name, of a location of Moabite cities (compare קר‎ = city MI11, 12, 24, plural קרן‎ Jeremiah 1:29); — ᵐ5‎ usually omitted, or reads τὸ τεῖχος; —

1 ׳ק מוֺאָבIsaiah 15:1, possibly Rabba, south of Arnon, see BuhlGeogr.270.

2 ׳ק חֶ֫רֶשׂJeremiah 48:31, 36, ׳ק חָ֑רֶשׂIsaiah 16:11 = ׳ק חֲרֶ֫שֶׂת16:7, ׳ק חֲדָ֑שֶׂת2 Kings 3:25 (Gi ׳ק חֲרָ֑שֶׁת‎), perhaps Kerak, south of Rabba, see Buhllb., and compare (on Kerak) PalmerDes. of Exodus 2.472 DowlingPEQ. Oct. 1896, 327, especially Mauss in de LuynesVoyage à la Mer Morte (1864), ii. 106 ff., iii (Atlas, near the end), 13 plural

III. קִירproper name, of a territory or people ׳ק‎ original house of Aram Amos 9:7; קִ֫ירָה‎ as place of exile 1:5; 2 Kings 16:9 (ᵐ5τὴν πόλιν); קִיר‎ as people in Assyrian army Isaiah 22:6 (22:5 see I. קִיר‎ near the end). — Location dubious, see conspectus of older views DrAmos 1:5; plausible is some tribe in Southern Babylonia, east of Tigris WklAT Unters 178, compare HalREJ xi. 60; — WMMHast. DB KIB everywhere strike out, or emend קוֺעַ‎, but see I. קִיר3 above

קֵירֹס‎ = קֵרֹס