קִיר
qîyr · keer
a wall (as built in a trench)
Lexicon
Derivation: or קִר; (Isaiah 22:5), or (feminine) קִירָה; from H6979 (קוּר);
a wall (as built in a trench)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [phrase] mason, side, town, [idiom] very, wall.
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › the hand that works › the head, the highest
What comes behind, the returning cycle of the hand that works of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קִיר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
75 occurrences · 75 OT · 0 NT · 54 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- against the wall7 · 14%
- the wall3 · 6%
- of the wall3 · 6%
- and the walls3 · 6%
- to the wall3 · 6%
- in the wall3 · 6%
- upon the wall3 · 6%
- in the walls2 · 4%
- even to the wall2 · 4%
- into the wall2 · 4%
- the walls2 · 4%
- wall2 · 4%
- on the wall2 · 4%
- through the wall2 · 4%
- and the wall2 · 4%
- thereof, and the sides1 · 2%
- of it, and the sides1 · 2%
- at the side1 · 2%
- upon the side1 · 2%
- be in the walls1 · 2%
- herself unto the wall1 · 2%
- shall reach from the wall1 · 2%
- was upon the town1 · 2%
- by the wall1 · 2%
- and masons1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.