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Strong's #7153: Qiryath `Arba` (pronounced keer-yath' ar-bah')

or (with the article interposed) Qiryath ha- Arbaw (Neh. 11:25) {keer-yath' haw-ar-bah'}; from 7151 and 704 or 702; city of Arba, or city of the four (giants); Kirjath-Arba or Kirjath-ha-Arba, a place in Palestine:--Kirjath-arba.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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qiryath 'arba‛ / qiryath hâ̇'arba‛

Kirjath-arba = "city of Arba"

1) early name of the city which after the conquest was called ' Hebron'

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from H7151 and H704 or H702



Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

Genesis 23:2: "And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham"
Genesis 35:27: "Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where"
Joshua 14:15: "And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land"
Joshua 15:54: "And Humtah, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:"
Joshua 20:7: "and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah."
Judges 1:10: "(now the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman,"
Nehemiah 11:25: "some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjath-arba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages"









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