Strong's #7084: Q`iylah (pronounced keh-ee-law')

perhaps from 7049 in the sense of inclosing; citadel; Keilah, a place in Palestine:--Keilah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

qe‛ı̂ylâh

Keilah = "fortress"

1) a city in the lowlands of Judah northwest of Hebron

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: perhaps from H7049 in the sense of inclosing

Usage:

This word is used 18 times:

 

Joshua 15:44: " And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:"
1 Samuel 23:1: "Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors."
1 Samuel 23:2: "the Philistines, and save Keilah."
1 Samuel 23:3: "how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?"
1 Samuel 23:4: "him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver"
1 Samuel 23:5: "So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away"
1 Samuel 23:5: "saved the inhabitants of Keilah."
1 Samuel 23:6: "fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand."
1 Samuel 23:7: "that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered"
1 Samuel 23:8: "the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men."
1 Samuel 23:10: "Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake."
1 Samuel 23:11: "Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant"
1 Samuel 23:12: "Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?"
1 Samuel 23:13: "hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever"
1 Samuel 23:13: "And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbore"
1 Chronicles 4:19: "the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite."
Nehemiah 3:17: "the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part."
Nehemiah 3:18: "the ruler of the half part of Keilah."