Town
קֶ֫רֶתStrong’s H7176qeret (qe-ret)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qeret is the Hebrew word usually translated “town”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!”
Meaning
- City, town
How it's translated
- town 4
- a town 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 4
- Job 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 8:3She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
- Proverbs 9:3She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
- Proverbs 9:14For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
- Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫רֶת qeret · town
city, town
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.