STRONGS NUMBER H7151


Word Summary
qiryah: a town, city
Original Word: קִרְיָה
Transliteration: qiryah
Phonetic Spelling: (kir-yaw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a town, city
Meaning: a town, city
Strong's Concordance
city

From qarah in the sense of flooring, i.e. Building; a city -- city.

see HEBREW qarah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7151. qiryah

קִרְיָהnoun feminine town, city (synonym of עִיר‎, chiefly in poetry, and in the higher style; perhaps from above √ as meeting-place of men; compare proper name, of a location MI13 קרית‎, l.10 קריתן‎; Jewish-Aramaic קַרְיָה‎); — absolute ׳קIsaiah 1:21 +; construct קִרְיַתNumbers 21:28 +; —

1 in General Deuteronomy 2:36; 3:4.

2 of specific towns, Hosea 6:8 (ᵐ5 גִּלְעָד,Manuscripts Γαλγαλα, compare Now); סִיחֹן קִרְיַתNumbers 21:28; Damascus, ׳ק מְשׂוֺשִׂיJeremiah 49:25 ("" תְּהִלָּה עִיר‎); especially of Jerusalem Micah 4:10; Isaiah 29:1; 33:20, ק ׳רְחֹבוֺתLamentations 2:11, ׳ק רָ֑ב מֶלֶךְPsalm 48:3, city for inhabitants 1 Kings 1:41, 45, נֶאֱמָנָה ׳קIsaiah 1:21, 26 ("" הַצֶּדֶק עִיר‎), ׳ק עַלִּיזָה22:2 ("" הוֺמִיָּה עִיר‎), 32:13.

3 in Isaiah 24-26 collective, i.e. denoting various, representative, cities, ׳ק תֹּהוּIsaiah 24:10, בְּצוּרָה ׳ק25:2, ׳ק עָרִיצִים גּוֺיִם25:3, ׳ק נִשְׂגָּבָה26:5; so probably Habakkuk 2:8, 17.

4 indefinite, Habakkuk 2:12 ("" עִיר‎); Proverbs 29:8, ׳ק עֹז18:19 a city of strength, so ׳ק עֻזּוֺ10:15 (in figurative) = 18:11 (id.); = inhabitants, 11:10, ק ׳הֲמוֺןJob 39:7.

קִרְיַת‎ see יְעָרִים קִרְיַת‎. above