Town
קִרְיָהStrong’s H7151qiryah (qir-yah)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qiryah is the Hebrew word usually translated “town”, “town of” and “from town of”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.”
Meaning
- City
How it's translated
- a town 12
- town of 5
- a town of 3
- town 3
- the town 2
- from town of 1
- more than a town of 1
- o town 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 10
- Proverbs 5
- Habakkuk 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- 1 Kings 2
- Numbers 1
12 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 2:36From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:
- Deuteronomy 3:4And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- 1 Kings 1:41And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
- 1 Kings 1:45And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.
- Job 39:7He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
- Psalms 48:2Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Hebrew dictionary
קִרְיָה qiryah · town
city Aramaic of qir.yah (קִרְיָה "town" H7151)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “town” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TOWN, noun
- Originally, a walled or fortified place; a collection of houses inclosed with walls, hedges or pickets for safety. Joshua 2:15“Rahab's house was on the town wall” Joshua 2:15“A town that hath gates and bars” 1 Samuel 23:7
- Any collection of houses, larger than a village.
- In England, any number of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
- The inhabitants of a town The town voted to send two representatives to the legislature, or they voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
All definitions and other forms of “town”
- In popular usage, in America, a township; the whole territory within certain limits.
- In England, the court end of London.
- The inhabitants of the metropolis.
- The metropolis.
TOWN'-CLERK, noun
[town and clerk.]
An officer who keeps the records of a town and enters all its official proceedings.
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.