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

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