Kiriath-arba
קִרְיַת אַרְבַּעStrong’s H7153qiryat arba (qir-yat ar-ba)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qiryat arba is the Hebrew word usually translated “arba”, “kiriath” and “at kiriath”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.”
Meaning
- Kirjath-arba = "city of Arba"
How it's translated
- arba 9
- kiriath 6
- at kiriath 1
- and kiriath 1
- in kiriath 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 5
- Genesis 2
- Judges 1
- Nehemiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 35:27And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
- Joshua 14:15And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.
- Joshua 15:13And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.
- Joshua 15:54And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:
- Joshua 20:7And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
- Joshua 21:11And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
Hebrew dictionary
קִרְיַת אַרְבַּע qiryat arba · Kiriath-arba
Kirjath-arba = "city of Arba" early name of the city which after the conquest was called 'Hebron' Another name of chev.ron (חֶבְרוֹן "Hebron" H2275A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.