קֶרֶת
keret · city
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7176 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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keret (קֶרֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “city”.
A city. A poetic word.
How to say it
ke·ret
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
- A place where many people live together; the city with its gate.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate by the city, and in the square I set up my seat,
- Proverbs 8:3
beside the gates, at the mouth of the city, at the entrance of the doorways she cries aloud:
- Proverbs 9:3
She has sent out her young women; she calls from the highest points of the heights of the city:
- Proverbs 9:14
And she sits at the door of her house, on a seat, on the heights of the city,
- Proverbs 11:11
By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.