Senses
1. Kiriathaim (city name) — The proper noun Kiriathaim, a place name referring to cities in Transjordan (in Moab, associated with Reuben's territory, and in Naphtali for Levites). All four clusters represent the same toponym with slight spelling variations and different morphosyntactic frames (bare noun, with conjunction waw). Arabic consistently renders qiryatayima (قِرْيَتَايِمَ), Spanish shows variants Kiryatayim/Quiriataim, Korean uses kiriadaim (기리아다임/기랴다임), Swahili Kiriathaimu, and Hindi kiryataim (किर्यातैम). The kethib/qere variants in S133415 confirm these are orthographic, not semantic, distinctions. 8×
AR["(وَقِرْيَتَيْمَ)","[وَقِرْيَتَيْمَ]","قِريَتايِم","قِرْيَاتَايِمَ","قِرْيَتَايِمَ","وَ-قِرْيَتايِمَ"]·ben["আর-কিরিয়াথায়িম","এবং-কিরিয়াথযিম","কিরিয়াতাইম","কিরিয়াতাইমের","কিরিয়াতায়িমকে","কিরিয়াথয়িম","কিরিয়াথায়িম","কির্যাতয়ীমে"]·DE["Kiriathaim","Kirjatajim","[וקריתימה]","[וקריתמה]","[קריתים]","und-Kiryatayim"]·EN["Kiriathaim","Qiryatayim","[and-Kiriathaim]","and-Kiriathaim","and-Kiryatayim"]·FR["Kiriathaim","[קריתים]","et-Kiryatayim","et-se-souvenir"]·heb["ו-קרייתימה","ו-קריתים","קריתים"]·HI["और-किर्यातैम","किरयतैम","किर्याताइम","किर्यातैम"]·ID["(dan-Kiryataim),","Kiryataim","[qere]","dan-Kiryataim"]·IT["Kiriathaim","[וקריתימה]","[וקריתמה]","[קריתים]","e-Kiryatayim"]·jav["Kiriathaim","Kiryataim","[lan-Kiryataim]","lan-Kiryataim.","lan-Kiryatayim"]·KO["[케티브]","그리고-기랴다임을","기랴다임","기랴다임을","기리아다임","기리아다임이","기리아타임을"]·PT["Qiryatayim","e-Kiriatayim","e-Qiryatayim"]·RU["Баал-Меон","Бет-Йешимот","И-Кирятаим","Кириафаим","Кирьятаим"]·ES["(y-Quiriatáyim)","Kiryatayim","Quiriataim","Quiryatayim","[y-Quiriatáyim]","y-Quiriataim"]·SW["Kiriataimu","Kiriathaimu","[na-Kiriathaimu]","na-Kiriathaimu"]·TR["(ve-Kiryatayim)","Kiryatayim","Kiryatayim'i","Kiryatayim'in","[ve-Kiryatayim]","ve-Kiryatayim"]·urd["(اور-قریاتیم)","[اور-قریاتیم]","اور-قریتائیم","قریتائم","قریتایم","قریتیم"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† קִרְיָתַ֫יִם n.pr.loc. Καριαθαιμ (perhaps double city (du.), yet in gen. on יִם—ַ in n.pr.loc. v. Ges§ 88 c);— 1. in Moab (MI10) Je 48:1 (-תָ֑יִם), v 23, so קִרְיָתָ֑יְמָה Ez 25:9 Qr (Kt קריתמה); Reubenite city according to Nu 32:37 (-תָ֑יִם) Jos 13:19; שָׁוֵה קִרְיָתָ֑יִם Gn 14:5 plain of Ḳiryathaim (v. שָׁוֵה); mod. Ḳurêyât, c. 1 1/4 m. SE. from (Mt.) ʿAṭṭarus (עֲטָרוֹת), and 6 3/4 m. NNW.…