Lexical Definition

‎קִרְיָא‎ qiryâʼ (keer-yaw') town ^A:N-F
(Aramaic) or קִרְיָה qiryâh (keer-yaw'); (Aramaic), corresponding to ‎קִרְיָה‎

city.

• {building
• a city}

1) city

See Greek: κώμη · μητρόπολις · πόλις

Extended Information

Aramaic of: קִרְיָה

• Aramaic of qir.yah (‎ק‎ִ‎ר‎ְ‎י‎ָ‎ה‎ "town" קִרְיָה)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Hebrew form: קִרְיָה
‎קִרְיָה‎, ‎אָ֯‎, noun feminine city (ᵑ7 Syriac; S-C^{A 9} + ‎קריה‎; see Biblical Hebrew, √ ‎קרה‎; also Nö^{Beitr. 62}); — absolute ‎הָ֯‎ Ezra 4:10, ‎אָ֯‎ vEzra 4:15 emphatic ‎קִרְיְתָא‎ vEzra 4:12 vEzra 4:13 vEzra 4:15 vEzra 4:15 vEzra 4:16 vEzra 4:19 vEzra 4:21

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