Kir-hareseth
קִיר חֶרֶשׂStrong’s H7025qir cheres (qir che-re-s)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qir cheres is the Hebrew word usually translated “kir”, “heres” and “hareseth”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.”
Meaning
- Kir-hareseth or Kir-hares or Kir-haresh = "wall of potsherds"
How it's translated
- kir 3
- heres 3
- hareseth 2
- in kir 1
- for kir 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 2
- 2 Kings 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 16:7Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
- Isaiah 16:11Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
- Jeremiah 48:31Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
- Jeremiah 48:36Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
Hebrew dictionary
קִיר חֶרֶשׂ qir cheres · Kir-hareseth
Kir-hareseth or Kir-hares or Kir-haresh = "wall of potsherds" one of the two chief strongholds of Moab Another name of qir (קִיר "Kir" H7024B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “her” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HER, pronoun
ced hur, an adjective, or pronominal adjective of the third person. [Latin suus.]
- Belonging to a female; as her face; her head.
- It is used before neuter nouns in personification.“Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace” Proverbs 3:17“She gave also to her husband with her and he did eat” Genesis 3:6
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.