Lexical Summary qir: a wall Original Word: קִירTransliteration: qir Phonetic Spelling: (keer) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a wall Meaning: a wall Strong's Concordance mason, side, town, very, wall Or qir (Isa. 22:5) {keer}; or (feminine) qiyrah {kee-raw'}; from quwr; a wall (as built in a trench) -- + mason, side, town, X very, wall. see HEBREW quwr Brown-Driver-Briggs H7023. qir I. קִיר noun masculinePsalm 62:4 wall (√ unknown); — absolute ׳ק Numbers 22:25 +, קִר Isaiah 22:5; construct קִיר 1 Kings 6:5 +; plural קִירוֺת 6:16 +, construct id., 6:5 +; suffix קִירֹתָיו Exodus 30:3 +, etc.; — wall, especially as flat surface: 1 usually of house or chamber: a. inner surface, Amos 5:19; 1 Samuel 18:11 9t., + (of temple) 1 Kings 6:15 a + 6:15 b (but read קוֺרוֺת beams, with ᵐ5 The Kit Benz), 6:16; 6:27; 6:27 6t. b. outer surface, 2 Kings 9:33; Ezekiel 33:30; Isaiah 59:10 (in simile); so קִיר זֶרֶם 25:4 (but Lo Kn Gr Di Du CheHpt and others read קֹר; JP PetersJBL xi (1892), 46 proposes בָּדָד [as 28:2]); of temple 1 Kings 6:5 (twice in verse); 6:6, compare Ezekiel 41:6 (twice in verse). c. both inner and outer Ezekiel 41:17; 41:20; 41:25. d. indeterminate, Ezekiel 12:5, 7, 12; 23:14. e. thickness specified, Ezekiel 41:5, 9, 12, 13 (of Ezekiel's temple). f. as enclosing, 2 Kings 4:10 (of עֲלִיָּה, q. v.); as separating Ezekiel 43:8. 2 wall of (temple-)court Ezekiel 8:7-8, (twice in verse) (in vision); of vineyard Numbers 22:25 (twice in verse) (J), of city 35:4 (P), compare ׳ק חַחוֺמָה Joshua 2:15 (JE) the (inner) surface of the wall. 3 more Generally, 1 Kings 5:13, and (in phrase בְּקִיר מַשְׁתִּין) 1 Samuel 25:22, 34; 1 Kings 14:10; 16:11; 21:21; 2 Kings 9:8; in figure Ezekiel 13:12, 14 (apparently feminine, but city Jerusalem probably in mind, compare AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 85 Köff. 2, 175), 13:15; 13:15 ("" חַיִץ 13:10, ׳ק נָטוּי Psalm 62:4; אֶבֶן 2 Samuel 5:11 = ׳ק 1 Chronicles 14:1, compare Habakkuk 2:11 (figurative); בַּדְוֶל קִיר Ezekiel 4:3 (symbolic). — Isaiah 22:5 is dubious: usually wall (so even Du CheHpt Marti), but reference not clear; Ew Checomm.. III. קִיר Klo Brd WklAlttest. Unters. 177 קוֺע, so WMMHast. DB KIR, but see Drib.KOA. 4 of flat side of altar Ezekiel 41:22; Exodus 30:3; 37:26; Leviticus 1:15; 5:9 (all P). 5 לִכִּי קִירוֺת Jeremiah 4:19 walls of my heart (as seat of pain). |
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