Dict: smith - KIR

smith:

KIR - K>@ - (fortress) is mentioned by Amos, kjv@Amos:9:7) as the land from which the Syrians (Aramaeans) were once "brought up;" i.e. apparently as the country where they had dwelt before migrating to the region north of Palestine. (A difference of opinion exists in regard to the position of Kir, since some suppose it to be identical with Carma, a city of Media, in the south, on the river Mardus; others place it in Armenia, on the river Kar.
ED.)

KIRHARASETH - K>@ - (brick fortress), ( kjv@2Kings:3:25) Kir-ha’resh, kjv@Isaiah:16:11) Kir-har’es, kjv@Jeremiah:48:31-36) These four names are all applied to one place, probably KIR OF MOAB OF MOAB, which see.

KIRIAH - K>@ - apparently an ancient or archaic word, meaning a city or town. It may be compared to the word "burg" or "bury" in our own language. Closely related to Kiriah is Kereth, apparently a Phoenician form, which occurs occasionally. kjv@Job:29:7; kjv@Proverbs:8:3) As a proper name it appears in the Bible under the forms of Kerioth, Kartah, Kartan, besides those immediately following.

KIRIATHAIM - K>@ - KIRJATHAIM

KIRIOTH - K>@ - (two cities), a place in Moab the palaces of which were threatened by Amos with destruction by fire, kjv@Amos:2:2) unless indeed the word means simply "the cities," which is probably the case also in kjv@Jeremiah:48:4)

KIRJATH - K>@ - (a city), the last of the cities enumerated as belonging to the tribe of Benjamin, kjv@Joshua:18:28) probably identical with the better-known place Kirjath-jearim.

KIRJATHARBA - K>@ - (the city of Arba), an early name of the city which after the conquest is generally known as HEBRON. kjv@Joshua:14:15; kjv@Judges:1:10) The identity of Kirjath-arba with Hebron is constantly asserted. kjv@Genesis:23:2 kjv@Genesis:35:27; kjv@Joshua:14:15 kjv@Joshua:15:13-54 kjv@Joshua:20:7 ; 21:11)

KIRJATHARIM - K>@ - (city of forests), an abbreviated form of the name Kirjath-jearim, which occurs only in kjv@Ezra:2:25)

KIRJATHBAAL - K>@ - [KIRJATH

- JEARIM]

KIRJATHHUZOTH - K>@ - (city of streets), a place to which Balak accompanied Balaam immediately after his arrival in Moab, kjv@Numbers:22:39) and which is nowhere else mentioned. It appears to have lain between the Arnon (Wady Mojeb) and Bamoth-baal. Comp. vs. kjv@Numbers:22:36) and Numb 22:41

KIRJATHJEARIM - K>@ - (the city of forests), first mentioned as one of the four cities of the Gibeonites, kjv@Joshua:9:17) it next occurs as one of the landmarks of the northern boundary of Judah, ch kjv@Joshua:15:9) and as the point at which the western and southern boundaries of Benjamin coincided, ch. kjv@Joshua:18:14-15) and in the last two passages we find that it bore another, perhaps earlier, name
that of the great Canaanite deity Baal, namely BAALAH and KIRJATH

- BAAL. At this place the ark remained for twenty years. ( kjv@1Samuel:7:2) At the close of that time Kirjath-jearim lost its sacred treasure, on its removal by David to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. ( kjv@1Chronicles:13:5-6; kjv@2Chronicles:1:4; 2 Samuel kjv@6:2) etc. To Eusebius and Jerome it appears to have been well known. They describe it as a village at the ninth mile between Jerusalem and Diospolis (Lydda). These requirements are exactly fulfilled in the small modern village of Kuriet-el
- Enab
now usually known as Abu Gosh , from the robber chief whose headquarters it was
on the road from Jaffa and Jerusalem.

KIRJATHSANNAH - K>@ - (city of books). DEBIR

KIRJATHSEPHER - K>@ - (city of books). kjv@Joshua:15:15-16; kjv@Judges:1:11-12) DEBIR

KIR OF MOAB - K>@ - (fortress of Moab), one of the two chief strongholds of Moab, the other being Ar of Moab. The name occurs only in kjv@Isaiah:15:1) though the place is probably referred to under the names of Kir-heres, Kir-harseth, etc. It is almost identical with the name Kerak , by which the site of an important city in a high and very strong position at the southeast of the Dead Sea is known at this day. Its situation is truly remarkable. It is built upon the top of a steep hill, surrounded by a deep and narrow valley, which again is completely enclosed by mountains rising higher than the town and overlooking it on all sides.