Biblical Lexicon

קִיקָלוֹן H7023

Conj-w | 74× in 2 senses

Wall; a structural wall of a building, house, or temple; occasionally a city fortification wall.

The standard Hebrew word for a wall as a built structure, most often referring to the interior or exterior walls of houses, the temple, or other buildings. In the vast majority of its 74 occurrences, qir denotes a building wall — whether the walls inspected for plague marks (Lev 14:37), the temple walls adorned with carvings (1 Kgs 6:27), or the wall against which blood is dashed in sacrifice (Lev 1:15). A small handful of uses describe fortification walls, overlapping with the more common chomah. German distinguishes 'Wand' (interior wall) from 'Mauer' (stone wall), helpfully mirroring this division.

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Senses

1. wall (building/interior) — A structural wall belonging to a building, house, or temple — the dominant sense covering nearly all occurrences. Whether sprinkled with sacrificial blood (Lev 1:15; 5:9), inspected for mold (Lev 14:37, 39), or forming the inner partitions of Solomon's temple, qir is the everyday word for a built wall. German 'Wand' (interior wall) and French 'mur' both confirm this architectural, non-military usage. 70×

PROPERTIES_RELATIONS › Nature, Class, Example › Geography and Space

AR["الجِدارِ","الحائِطِ","الحَائِطِ","الْجِدَارِ","الْحَائِطَ","الْحَائِطُ","الْحَائِطِ","عَلَى-الْحَائِطِ","في-الجِدارِ","فِي-الْجِدَارِ","فِي-الْحَائِطِ","فِي-جِدَارِ"]·ben["-দেওয়াল","-দেওয়ালের","-দেয়াল","-দেয়ালে","-দেয়ালের","দেওয়ালে","দেওয়ালের","দেয়ালে","দেয়ালের","সেই-দেওয়াল"]·DE["[הקיר]","der-Mauer","die-Wand","in-Wand"]·EN["in-the-wall","in-wall-of","on-the-wall","the-wall"]·FR["[הקיר]","le-mur","mur"]·heb["ב-קיר","ה-קיר"]·HI["दीवार","में-दीवार"]·ID["-dinding","atas-dinding","di-dinding","dinding","dinding-itu","dinding-itu;","dinding.","ke-dinding","tembok","tembok-itu"]·IT["il-muro","il-parete","in-parete","parete"]·jav["ing-témbok","ing-témbok-punika","tembok","témbok","témbok-punika","ula"]·KO["그-벽","그-벽-안에서","그-벽에","그-벽에서","그-벽을","그-벽의","그-벽이","벽-에","벽보다"]·PT["a-parede","da-parede","na-parede","o-muro"]·RU["-стене","в-стене","в-стену","изображения","к-стене","на-стене","стена","стене","стену","стены"]·ES["en-la-pared","en-pared-de","la-pared"]·SW["juu-ya-ukuta","katika-ukuta","katika-ukuta-wa","ukuta","ukuta-ule","ukutani","ule"]·TR["deldim","duvar","duvara","duvarda","duvardan","duvarı","duvarın","duvarında"]·urd["-دیوار","دیوار","دیوار-میں","دیوار-پر","دیوار-کی"]

Lev 1:15, Lev 5:9, Lev 14:37, Lev 14:37, Lev 14:39, Num 22:25, Num 22:25, 1 Sam 20:25, 1 Sam 25:22, 1 Sam 25:34, 2 Sam 5:11, 1 Kgs 6:5 (+38 more)

2. wall (city/fortification) — A city wall or fortification barrier, where qir overlaps with the more common chomah. Attested in just four passages (Num 35:4; Isa 22:5; 25:4; 59:10), these contexts involve defensive structures and siege imagery. The multilingual evidence reflects the shift: Arabic 'sur' (city wall), Korean 'seongbyeok' (fortress wall), and Spanish 'muro' (masonry wall) replace the lighter 'pared' (room wall), marking a genuine semantic distinction. 4×

PROPERTIES_RELATIONS › Nature, Class, Example › Geography and Space

AR["-الْحَائِطَ","السُّورَ","عَلَى-حَائِطٍ","مِنْ-سُورِ"]·ben["থেকে-প্রাচীর","দেওয়াল","দেয়ালের","প্রাচীর"]·DE["[קיר]","[קר]","von-Mauer-von"]·EN["from-wall-of","the-wall","wall"]·FR["[קיר]","[קר]","de-mur-de"]·heb["מ-קיר","קיר"]·HI["दीवार","दीवारपर","से-दीवार"]·ID["dari-tembok","dinding","tembok"]·IT["da-muro-di","parete"]·jav["saking-tembok","tembok"]·KO["벽을","성벽을","성벽의","에서-벽"]·PT["de-muro-de","muro","parede"]·RU["на-стену","от-стены","стену"]·ES["desde-muro-de","la-pared","muro"]·SW["kutoka-ukuta-wa","ukuta","ya-ukuta"]·TR["-dan-duvarından","duvara","duvari"]·urd["دیوار-پر","دیوار-کو","سے-دیوار"]

Num 35:4, Isa 22:5, Isa 25:4, Isa 59:10

BDB / Lexicon Reference

קִיקָלוֹן v. קלל.