--- title: קִיר — wall · The Tanakh dictionary description: קִיר (7023), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 74 times: wall. BDB 1906: n.m. wall. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7023.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ק](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1511-2.md)‎ / קִיר‎ # קִיר «קִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **wall** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 74 times · **Key:** 7023 · **BDB:** קִיר ### Glosses wall (31); a.wall (10); the.walls (9) ### Meaning (OSHB) wall [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7023/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.m. wall [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7023/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.m.ψ 62:4 wall (√ unknown);—abs. ק׳ Nu 22:25; +, קִר Is 22:5; cstr. קִיר 1 K 6:5 +; pl. קִירוֹת 1 K 6:16 +, cstr. id., v 5 +; sf. קִירֹתָיו Ex 30:3 +, etc.;—wall, especially as flat surface: usually of house or chamber: inner surface, Am 5:19; 1 S 18:11 + 9 times, + (of temple) 1 K 6:15a + v 15b (but read קוֹרוֹת beams, with 𝔊 The Kit Benz), v 16, 27(×2) + 6 times outer surface, 2 K 9:33; Ez 33:30; Is 59:10 (in sim.); so זֶרֶם קִיר Is 25:4 (but Lo Kn Gr Di Du CheHpt. al. read קֹר; JP PetersJBL xi (1892), 46 proposes בָּרָד \[as 28:2\]); of temple 1 K 6:5(×2), 6, cf. Ez 41:6(×2). both inner and outer v 17, 20, 25. indeterminate, 12:5, 7, 12; 23:14. thickness specified, Ez 41:5, 9, 12, 13 (of Ezekiel’s temple). as enclosing, 2 K 4:10 (of עֲלִיָּה, q.v.); as separating Ez 43:8. wall of (temple-)court Ez 8:7, 8(×2) (in vision); of vineyard Nu 22:25(×2) (J), of city 35:4 (P), cf. ק׳ חַחוֹמָה Jos 2:15 (JE) the (upper) surface of the wall. more gen., 1 K 5:13, and (in phr. מַשְׁתִּין בְּקִיר) 1 S 25:22, 34; 1 K 14:10; 16:11; 21:21; 2 K 9:8; in fig. Ez 13:12, 14 (appar. fem., but city Jerus. prob. in mind, cf. AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 85 Köii. 2, 175), v 15(×2) (‖ חַיִץ v 10), ק׳ נָטוּי ψ 62:4; אֶבֶן ק׳ 2 S 5:11 = ק׳ 1 Ch 14:1, cf. Hb 2:11 (fig.); קִיר בַּרְזֶל Ez 4:3 (symbol.).—Is 22:5 is dub.: usually wall (so even Du CheHpt Marti), but ref. not clear; Ew CheComm. iii. קִיר; Klo Brd WklAlttest. Unters. 177 קוֹעַ, so WMMHast DB kir, but v. Drlb. koa. of flat side of altar Ez 41:22; Ex 30:3; 37:26; Lv 1:15; 5:9 (all P). קִירוֹת לִבִּי Je 4:19 walls of my heart (as seat of pain). Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 52 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «קִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7023/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Habakkuk 2:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.11/) כִּי־אֶ֖בֶן מִקִּ֣יר תִּזְעָ֑ק וְכָפִ֖יס מֵעֵ֥ץ יַעֲנֶֽנָּה׃פ *Word for word:* (dm) a.stone from.\[the\] wall it.will.cry.out and a.rafter from.\[the\] wood(s) it will.answer.it *JPS 1917:* For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. [Isaiah 38:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.2/) וַיַּסֵּ֧ב חִזְקִיָּ֛הוּ פָּנָ֖יו אֶל־הַקִּ֑יר וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֖ל אֶל־יְהוָֽה׃ *Word for word:* and he.turned Hezekiah face his to the wall and he.prayed to Yahweh *JPS 1917:* Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, - ← previous: [קִיקָלוֹן](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7022.md) - next →: [קִיר](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7024.md) - ↑ back to [ק](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1511-2.md)