King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7152
Transliteration: Qeriyyoth
Phonetic Spelling: (ker-ee-yoth')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a city in Judah, also a city in Moab
Meaning: Kerioth -- a city in Judah, also a city in Moab
Word Summary
Qeriyyoth: a city in Judah, also a city in Moab
Original Word: קְרִיּוֹתTransliteration: Qeriyyoth
Phonetic Spelling: (ker-ee-yoth')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a city in Judah, also a city in Moab
Meaning: Kerioth -- a city in Judah, also a city in Moab
Strong's Concordance
Kerioth, Kirioth Plural of qiryah; buildings; Kerioth, the name of two places in Palestine -- Kerioth, Kirioth.
see HEBREW qiryah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7152. Qeriyyoth
קרִיּוֺת proper name, of a location (formed as plural intensive from קִרְיָה?); —
1 in Judah Joshua 15:25 (αἱ πόλεις; whence, as supposed, Judas קְרִיּוֺת אִישׁ), perhaps †aryatên, approximately 12 miles south of Hebron, BuhlGeogr. 182.
2 in Moab, Καριωθ, αἱ πόλεις; MI13 קרית: Jeremiah 48:24, ׳הַקּ 48:41; Amos 2:2; perhaps = Ραββαθ Μωαβ = Μοαβ = Αρεοπολις (Euseb., see LagOnom. 277, 60 and others), modernRabba, approximately 11 miles south of Arnon, compare BuhlGeogr. 270.