kirya · town, city

What it means

kirya (קִרְיָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “town, city”.

Town: a poetic way of saying "city."

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, usually with walls around it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• city ×16
• town ×13

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Kings×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×5
• Isaiah×10
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Hosea×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×3

• Numbers 21:28

  For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon; it consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of the Arnon.

• Deuteronomy 2:36

  From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and the city that is in the wadi, as far as Gilead, there was not a town that was too high for us; YHWH our Elohim delivered all of them before us.

• Deuteronomy 3:4

  We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a town that we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

• 1 Kings 1:41

  And Adonijah heard it, and all the guests who were with him, just as they finished eating. And Joab heard the sound of the horn and said, “Why is there the sound of the city in an uproar?”

• 1 Kings 1:45

  And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him as king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound that you heard.

• Job 39:7

  He laughs at the multitude of the city; the clamor of the driver he does not hear.

• Psalms 48:2

  Beautiful in its height, the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, the far reaches of the north, the city of the great king.

• Proverbs 10:15

  The wealth of the rich man is his strong city; the ruin of the poor is their poverty.

• Proverbs 11:10

  At the prosperity of the righteous the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.

• Proverbs 18:11

  The wealth of the rich is his strong city, and like a wall set on high in his imagination.

• Proverbs 18:19

  A brother offended is harder to win than a city of strength, and strife is like the bar of a citadel.

• Proverbs 29:8

  Men of scoffing inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.

• Isaiah 1:21

  How the faithful city has become a prostitute! Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

• Isaiah 1:26

  And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning; afterward you will be called City of Righteousness, Faithful City.

• Isaiah 22:2

  full of shouting, a tumultuous city, an exultant town? Your slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

• Isaiah 24:10

  The town of formlessness is broken; every house is shut, so that no one enters.

• Isaiah 25:2

  For you have made the city into a heap, the fortified town into a ruin, the palace of strangers no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt.

• Isaiah 25:3

  Therefore a strong people will honor you; the town of tyrant nations will fear you.

• Isaiah 26:5

  For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the town set on high; he lays it low, he lays it low to the ground, he brings it to the dust.

• Isaiah 29:1

  Woe, Ariel, Ariel, town where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts go around.

• Isaiah 32:13

  on the ground of my people thornbushes and briers come up; yes, on all the houses of joy, the exultant town.

• Isaiah 33:20

  Gaze on Zion, the town of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, and none of its cords will be broken.

• Jeremiah 49:25

  How is not forsaken the city of praise, the town of my joy!

• Lamentations 2:11

  My eyes are spent with tears; my insides are in turmoil; my liver is poured out on the ground because of the shattering of the daughter of my people, when child and nursing infant faint in the squares of the city.

• Hosea 6:8

  Gilead is a city of those who work wickedness, tracked with blood.

• Micah 4:10

  Writhe and push, daughter of Zion, like a woman giving birth, for now you will go out from the city and dwell in the field, and you will come as far as Babylon; there you will be rescued, there YHWH will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

• Habakkuk 2:8

  Because you have plundered many nations, all the rest of the peoples will plunder you, for the blood of human beings and violence done to the land, to the city, and to all who dwell in it.

• Habakkuk 2:12

  Woe to the one who builds a city with blood and establishes a town with injustice!

• Habakkuk 2:17

  For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, and the devastation of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of human beings and violence done to the land, to the city, and to all who dwell in it.