קִרְיַת חֻצוֹת
Kirjath-huzoth
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Kirjath-huzoth’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H7155 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 1 verse
About this entry
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קרית חצות — transliterated Qiryath Chutsôwth — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Kirjath-huzoth.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Numbers. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Numbers 22:39. See 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7155 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: not separately translated
- Berean Standard Bible: Kiriath-huzoth 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Huzoth 1×, Kiriath 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Does not render H7155 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 1 tagged occurrence).
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7155 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7155 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Kirjath-huzoth = "city of streets"
- a city in Moab
Word origin
n.pr.loc. in Moab, πόλεις ἐπαύλεων, Nu 22:39, site unknown.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קריה (qiryâh) (H7151) — city.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H7155 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֻצֽוֹת | Noun, Proper | Numbers 22:39 | 1 |
| קִרְיַ֥ת | Noun, Proper | Numbers 22:39 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7155, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- קריות Qᵉrîyôwth H7152 Kerioth
- קרית ארבע Qiryath ʼArbaʻ H7153 Kirjath-arba
- קרית בעל Qiryath Baʻal H7154 Kirjath-baal
- קריתים Qiryâthayim H7156 Kiriathaim
- קרית יערים Qiryath Yᵉʻârîym H7157 Kirjath-jearim
- קרית סנה Qiryath Çannâh H7158 Kirjath-sepher
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 6 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Kirjath-huzoth). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
City of streets, Num. 22:39, a Moabite city, which some identify with Kirjathaim. Balak here received and entertained Balaam, whom he had invited from Pethor, among the "mountains of the east," beyond the Euphrates, to lay his ban upon the Israelites, whose progress he had no hope otherwise of arresting. It was probably from the summit of Attarus, the high place near the city, that the soothsayer first saw the encampments of Israel.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(city of streets), a place to which Balak accompanied Balaam immediately after his arrival in Moab, (Numbers 22:39) and which is nowhere else mentioned. It appears to have lain between the Arnon (Wady Mojeb) and Bamoth-baal. Comp. vs. (Numbers 22:36) and Numb 22:41
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
city of streets; populous city
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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