1. city, town, settlement — A walled urban settlement or town, used across the Old Testament as a common noun for inhabited cities. All seven clusters are purely morphological variants of the same noun: absolute, construct, with article, with prepositions, singular, and plural forms. Multilingual evidence confirms total semantic unity: English 'city/town/the city,' Spanish 'ciudad/villa/la ciudad,' Hindi 'नगर/शहर/नगरी' (city/town/city), Arabic 'مَدِينَةُ/الْقَرْيَةَ/قَرْيَةٌ/الْمَدِينَةِ' (city/village/town/the city), Korean '성읍/도시/성' (walled city/city/castle), and Swahili 'mji/mjini/mji wa' (city/in the city/city of). No semantic distinction exists between any of these clusters. 29×
AR["القَريَةَ","القَريَةُ","المَدينَةِ","الْقَرْيَةَ","الْقَرْيَةِ","الْمَدِينَةِ","قَريَةً","قَرْيَةُ","مَدينَةٌ","مَدينَةُ","مَدِينَةً","مَدِينَةٍ","مَدِينَةَ","مَدِينَةُ","مَدِينَةُ-"]·ben["নগর","নগর-","নগরকে","নগরী","নগরের","শহরের"]·DE["Stadt"]·EN["a-city","a-fortified-city","a-town","city","city-of","faithful","is-his-strong-city","of-ruthless","of-the-city","the-city","the-town-of"]·FR["cité"]·heb["קריה","קרייה","קריית","קרית"]·HI["नगर","नगर-","नगर-के","नगरी","शहर"]·ID["adalah-kota","kota","kota-","negeri"]·IT["citta","citta-di","città"]·jav["kitha","kitha-","kutha","kutha-saking"]·KO["고을-을","도시-의","도시라","도시를","도시의","성-이","성-이다","성읍","성읍을","성읍이","성읍이-","성읍이니라","성읍이라","성읍이여","성이라"]·PT["cidade","cidade-de","cidade-de-","cidade-em-que","cidade;","vila"]·RU["город","город-","города","городом","град","градом","грады","крепость","поселение"]·ES["Villa","ciudad","ciudad-de","ciudad-donde","la-ciudad","una-ciudad","villa-de"]·SW["mji","mji-wa","ni-mji","za-mji"]·TR["Kent","kenti","kentine","kentini","kentinin","sehri-","şehir","şehri","şehridir","şehrin"]·urd["شہر","شہر-کو","شہر-کے","نگری"]
Num 21:28, Deut 2:36, Deut 3:4, 1 Kgs 1:41, 1 Kgs 1:45, Job 39:7, Ps 48:2, Prov 10:15, Prov 11:10, Prov 18:11, Prov 18:19, Prov 29:8 (+17 more)
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† קִרְיָה n.f. town, city (syn. of עִיר, chiefly poet., and in the higher style; perhaps from above √ as meeting-place of men; cf. n.pr.loc. MI13 קרית, l.10 קריתן; J.Aram. קַרְיָה);—abs. ק׳ Is 1:21 +; cstr. קִרְיַת Nu 21:28 +;— 1. in gen. Dt 2:36; 3:4. 2. of specif. towns, Ho 6:8 (גִּלְעָד, 𝔊Codd. Γαλγαλα, cf. Now); קִרְיַת סִיחֹן Nu 21:28; Damascus, ק׳ מְשׂוֹשִׂי Je 49:25 (‖ עִיר תְּהִלָּה);…