Strong's Hebrew: 7153. קִרְיַת (Qiryath Arba or Qiryath Haarba) -- "city of the four," an older name of Hebron

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Qiryath Arba or Qiryath Haarba: "city of the four," an older name of Hebron

Original Word: קִרְיַת
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Transliteration: Qiryath Arba or Qiryath Haarba
Phonetic Spelling: (keer-yath' ar-bah')
Short Definition: Kiriath-arba

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from qiryah and arba
Definition
"city of the four," an older name of Hebron (2275a)
NASB Translation
Kiriath-arba (9).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

קִרְיַת אַרְבַּע proper name, of a location older name of Hebron; πόλις Αρβο(κ), Καρ(ι)αθαρβοκ, etc. (probably = fourfold city (otherwise Joshua 14:15; Joshua 15:13; Joshua 21:11), see especially GFM); — Joshua 14:15 (J E D), Judges 1:10b (אַרְבַּ֑ע ׳ק), also Genesis 23:2; Joshua 15:13,54; Joshua 20:7; Joshua 21:11 (all P); ׳הָא ׳ק Genesis 35:27 (P) Nehemiah 11:25. — see חֶבְרוֺן.

Strong's

Kirjath-arba

Or (with the article interposed) Qiryath ha- Arbaw (Neh. 11:25) {keer-yath' haw-ar-bah'}; from qiryah and Arba' or arba'; city of Arba, or city of the four (giants); Kirjath-Arba or Kirjath-ha-Arba, a place in Palestine -- Kirjath-arba.

see HEBREW qiryah

see HEBREW Arba'

see HEBREW arba'