kiryat-yearim · Kiriath-jearim

What it means

kiryat-yearim (קִרְיַת יְעָרִים) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Kiriath-jearim”.

A city of the Gibeonites, later of Judah. The name means "city of the forests."

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.

How it is translated

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

• Kiriath-jearim ×36
• Kiriath-arim ×2
• Kiriath ×1

Where it appears

• Joshua×11
• Judges×4
• 1 Samuel×6
• 1 Chronicles×10
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×2
• Nehemiah×2
• Jeremiah×2

• Joshua 9:17

  The sons of Israel set out and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.

• Joshua 15:9

  and the border bent from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border bent to Baalah (that is Kiriath-jearim);

• Joshua 15:60

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

• Joshua 18:14

  And the border bent and turned on the west side southward from the hill that lies over against Beth-horon on the south, and its ends were at Kiriath-baal (that is Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the west side.

• Joshua 18:15

  And the south side was from the end of Kiriath-jearim; and the border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah;

• Joshua 18:28

  Zela, Eleph, the Jebusite (that is Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath: fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.

• Judges 18:12

  They went up and encamped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. Therefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan to this day; look, it is behind Kiriath-jearim.

• 1 Samuel 6:21

  So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of YHWH; come down and bring it up to you.”

• 1 Samuel 7:1

  And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and brought up the ark of YHWH and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill; and they consecrated Eleazar his son to keep the ark of YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 7:2

  And it happened, from the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath-jearim, that the days grew many and came to be twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after YHWH.

• 1 Chronicles 2:50

  These were the sons of Caleb. The son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,

• 1 Chronicles 2:52

  And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.

• 1 Chronicles 2:53

  And the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

• 1 Chronicles 13:5

  So David assembled all Israel, from the Shihor of Egypt as far as the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of Elohim from Kiriath-jearim.

• 1 Chronicles 13:6

  And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, to Kiriath-jearim, which belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of Elohim, of YHWH, who sits on the cherubim, where the name is called.

• 2 Chronicles 1:4

  But the ark of Elohim David had brought up from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.

• Ezra 2:25

  the sons of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three;

• Nehemiah 7:29

  the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three;

• Jeremiah 26:20

  And there was also a man prophesying in the name of YHWH, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

And 20 more times.