Kiriath-sannah
קִרְיַת־סֵ֫פֶרStrong’s H7158qiryat sannah (qir-yat san-nah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qiryat sannah is the Hebrew word usually translated “kiriath”, “sepher” and “sannah”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher.”
Meaning
- Kirjath-sepher or Kirjath-sannah = "city of the book"
How it's translated
- kiriath 4
- sepher 4
- and kiriath 1
- sannah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 3
- Judges 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 15:16And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
- Joshua 15:49And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which is Debir,
- Judges 1:11And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher:
- Judges 1:12And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
Hebrew dictionary
קִרְיַת־סֵ֫פֶר qiryat sannah · Kiriath-sannah
Kirjath-sepher or Kirjath-sannah = "city of the book" a town in the mountains of Judah to the west of Hebron Another name of de.vir (דְּבִיר "Debir" H1688A)
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.