Hebrew word · H7154

קִרְיַת בַּעַל

kiryat-

Kiriath-baal

Appears 4 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

Kirjath-baal = "city of Baal"

a city on the northern boundary of Judah and on the western and southern boundaries of Benjamin

also 'Kirjath-jearim' and 'Baalah'

Another name of qir.yat ye.a.rim (קִרְיַת יְעָרִים "Kiriath-jearim" H7157)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Joshua · 4

  1. Joshua 15:60 קִרְיַת־ בַּ֗עַל Kiriath, Baal

    Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah—two cities, along with their villages.

    Here: The first half of a place name, from qiryah, an old, mostly poetic word for 'town'. It appears in many Canaanite place names (Kiriath-arba, Kiriath-sepher).

  2. Joshua 18:14 קִרְיַת־ בַּ֙עַל֙ Kiriath, Baal

    On the west side the border curved southward from the hill facing Beth-horon on the south and came out at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the western side.

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