Lexicon :: Strong's H7024 - qîr

קִיר
Transliteration
qîr
Pronunciation
keer
Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
The same as קִיר (H7023)
Strong’s Definitions

קִיר Qîyr, keer; the same as H7023; fortress; Kir, a place in Assyrian; also one in Moab:—Kir. Compare H7025.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's H7024 in the following manner: Kir (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's H7024 in the following manner: Kir (5x).
  1. Kir = "wall"

    1. a place in Mesopotamia

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קִיר Qîyr, keer; the same as H7023; fortress; Kir, a place in Assyrian; also one in Moab:—Kir. Compare H7025.
STRONGS H7024: Abbreviations
† II. קִיר in proper name, of a location of Moabite cities (compare קר = city MI11, 12, 24, plural קרן l29); — usually omitted, or reads τὸ τεῖχος; —
1. מוֺאָב ק׳ Isaiah 15:1, possibly Rabba, south of Arnon, see BuhlGeogr.270.
2. חֶ֫רֶשׂ ק׳ [H7025 Jeremiah 48:31, 36], חָ֑רֶשׂ ק׳ [H7025 Isaiah 16:11] = חֲרֶ֫שֶׂת ק׳ [H7025 Isaiah 16:7], חֲדָ֑שֶׂת ק׳ [H7025 2 Kings 3:25] (Gi חֲרָ֑שֶׁת ק׳), perhaps Kerak, south of Rabba, see Buhlib., and compare (on Kerak) PalmerDes. of Exodus II: 472 DowlingPEQ. Oct. 1896, 327, especially Mauss in de LuynesVoyage à la Mer Morte (1864), ii. 106 ff., iii (Atlas, near the end), 13 plural

III. קִיר proper name, of a territory or people ק׳ original house of Aram Amos 9:7; קִ֫ירָה as place of exile Amos 1:5; 2 Kings 16:9 ( τὴν πόλιν); קִיר as people in Assyrian army Isaiah 22:6 (Isaiah 22:5 see I. קִיר near the end). — Location dubious, see conspectus of older views DrAmos 1:5; plausible is some tribe in Southern Babylonia, east of Tigris WklAT Unters 178, compare HalREJ xi. 60; — WMMHast. DB KIR everywhere strike out, or emend קוֺעַ, but see I. קִיר 3 above
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Kings

16:9

Isaiah

15:1; 22:5; 22:6

Amos

1:5; 1:5; 9:7