Strong's #7157: Qiryath Y`ariym (pronounced keer-yath' yeh-aw-reem')

or (Jer. 26:20) with the article interposed; or (Josh. 18:28) simply the former part of the word; or Qiryath tAriym {keer-yath' aw-reem'}; from 7151 and the plural of 3293 or 5892; city of forests, or city of towns; Kirjath-Jearim or Kirjath-Arim, a place in Palestine:--Kirjath, Kirjath-jearim, Kirjath-arim.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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qiryath ye‛ârı̂ym / qiryath ‛ârı̂ym

Kirjath-jearim = "city of forests"

1) a city on the northern boundary of Judah and on the western and southern boundaries of Benjamin

1a) also ' Kirjath-baal' and ' Baalah'

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from H7151 and the plural of H3293 or H5892

Usage:

This word is used 20 times:

 

Joshua 9:17: "were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim."
Joshua 15:9: "and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjath-jearim:"
Joshua 15:60: "Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:"
Joshua 18:14: "thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah:"
Joshua 18:15: "And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west,"
Joshua 18:28: "which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages."
Judges 18:12: "And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that"
Judges 18:12: "this day: behold, it is behind Kirjath-jearim."
1 Samuel 6:21: "messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again"
1 Samuel 7:1: "And the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought"
1 Samuel 7:2: "while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was"
1 Chronicles 2:50: "of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim,"
1 Chronicles 2:52: "And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites."
1 Chronicles 2:53: "And the families of Kirjath-jearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them"
1 Chronicles 13:5: "the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim."
1 Chronicles 13:6: "Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence"
2 Chronicles 1:4: "of God had David brought up from Kirjath-jearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for"
Ezra 2:25: "The children of Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three."
Nehemiah 7:29: "The men of Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three."
Jeremiah 26:20: "Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied against this"