kirya · city

What it means

kirya (קִרְיָא) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “city”.

(Aramaic). Related to the Hebrew "qirya".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A place where many people live together, with walls around it (Aramaic).

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Ezra 4:10

  and the rest of the nations whom Osnappar, the great and noble, carried into exile and settled them in the city of Samaria, and the rest of the other side of the river. And now:

• Ezra 4:12

  let it be known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us, to Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and wicked city, and they are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.

• Ezra 4:13

  Now let it be known to the king that if that city is built and the walls are finished, they will not pay tribute, tax, or toll, and it will cause harm to the treasury of kings.

• Ezra 4:15

  so that someone may investigate in the book of the memorials of your fathers; and you will find in the book of the memorials and know that that city is a rebellious city, causing harm to kings and provinces, and that they have been making sedition within it since the days of old; for this reason that city was laid waste.

• Ezra 4:16

  We inform the king that if that city is built and the walls are finished, as a result you will have no portion in the other side of the river.”

• Ezra 4:19

  And by me an order was given, and they investigated and found that that city since the days of old has risen up against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it.

• Ezra 4:21

  Now give an order to make those men cease, and that city is not to be built until by me the order is given.

And 2 more times.