קֶרֶת
qereth · H7176 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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city, town
Relatively large and permanent population center, usually surrounded by a wall; poetic term
ExamplesJob 29:7 “When I went out to the gate of the city, When I took my seat in the public square,
Proverbs 8:3 Beside the gates, at the opening to the city, At the entrance of the doors, she cries out:
Proverbs 9:3 She has sent out her attendants, she calls out From the tops of the heights of the city:
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רוּםto be high, to raise, to lift up 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- מָרוֹםheight, on high 2
- פֶּהmouth 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- עִיר ʻîyr · H5892 · town, district, citadel
- Both words denote settlements or urban places and share the core sense "city."
In the other Testament 1 word
- קִרְיָא qiryâʼ · H7149 · city
- Aramaic cognate of Hebrew קֶרֶת, both denoting 'city' from the same Semitic root.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Towns001003002011
- The word means a city, directly illustrated by Job sitting at "the gate of the city" (Job 29:7), wisdom calling out from the heights of the city (Proverbs 8:3, 9:3, 14), and a city exalted by the blessing of the upright (Proverbs 11:11).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7176. qereth [קֶ֫רֶת] noun feminine town, city (late poetry) (compare Phoenician חדשת…
[קֶ֫רֶת] noun feminine town, city (late poetry) (compare Phoenician חדשת קרת proper name, of a location in Cyprus, also = Carthage, and perhaps Cirta, Tigranocerta; compare Thes); — always קָ֑רֶת; — of Job's city, Job 29:7; indefinite Pro 8:3; Pro 9:3, Pro 9:14; city as a corporate body of men Pro 11:11.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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