Lexical Definition

‎קֶרֶת‎ qereth (keh'-reth) town ^H:N-F
from ‎קָרָה‎ in the sense of building

city.

• a city

1) city, town

See Greek: ἴχνος · σκέλος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎קֶ֫רֶת‎] noun feminine town, city (late poetry) (compare Phoenician ‎קרת חדשת‎ 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 Prov 8:3; Prov 9:3; Prov 9:14 city as a corporate body of men Prov 11:11.

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