STRONGS NUMBER H7176


Word Summary
qereth: town, city
Original Word: קֶרֶת
Transliteration: qereth
Phonetic Spelling: (keh'-reth)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: town, city
Meaning: town, city
Strong's Concordance
city

From qarah in the sense of building; a city -- city.

see HEBREW qarah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7176. qereth

[קֶ֫רֶת‎] noun feminine town, city (late poetry) (compare Phoenician חדשת קרת‎ proper name, of a location in Cyprus, also = Carthage, and perhaps Cirta, Tigranocerta; compare Thes); — always קָ֑רֶת‎; — of Job's city, Job 29:7; indefinite Proverbs 8:3; 9:3, 14; city as a corporate body of men 11:11.