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title: קִרְיָתַיִם — Kiriathaim · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קִרְיָתַיִם (7156), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: Kiriathaim. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קִרְיָתַיִם

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«קִרְיָתַיִם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Kiriathaim** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 7156 · **BDB:** קִרְיָתַ֫יִם

### Glosses

Kiriathaim (6); (to) (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Kiriathaim [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7156/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7156/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Καριαθαιμ (perhaps double city (du.), yet in gen. on יִם—ַ in n.pr.loc. v. Ges§ 88 c);— 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. from Dibon; GASmGeogr. 567 f. BuhlGeogr. 267. Levit. city in Naphtali 1 Ch 6:61, = קַרְתָּן ‖ Jos 21:32 (Θεμμων, 𝔊L Καρθαν).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קִרְיָתַיִם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7156/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 32:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.37/)

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וּבְנֵ֤י רְאוּבֵן֙ בָּנ֔וּ אֶת־חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן וְאֶת־אֶלְעָלֵ֑א וְאֵ֖ת קִרְיָתָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and the.descendants of.Reuben they.built (et) Heshbon and (et) Elealeh and (et) Kiriathaim

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim;

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[Joshua 13:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.19/)

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וְקִרְיָתַ֣יִם וְשִׂבְמָ֔ה וְצֶ֥רֶת הַשַּׁ֖חַר צֶ֥רֶת הַשַּׁ֖חַר בְּהַ֥ר הָעֵֽמֶק׃

*Word for word:* and Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth Shahar on the.hill of the.valley

*JPS 1917:* and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zerethshahar in the mount of the valley;

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