קִיר qir

Hebrew word for “wall” · Strong’s H7023 · used 74 times in 64 verses

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Meaning

1) wall, side; 1a) wall (of house or chamber); 1b) the sides (of the altar)

How it is translated

Glosses given for qir in context, with how often each is used:

• wall 52
• walls 15
• sides 3
• side 2
• will be from the wall 1
• like a wall 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 41 (9), 1 Kings 6 (6), 2 Chronicles 3 (3), Ezekiel 8 (3), Ezekiel 12 (3), Ezekiel 13 (3), Leviticus 14 (2), 1 Samuel 25 (2), 2 Kings 9 (2), Exodus 30 (1)

Forms

• בקיר 20
• הקיר 15
• קיר 10
• קירות 6
• הקירות 3
• קירתיו 2
• בקירת 2
• מקיר 2
• ובקיר 2
• לקיר 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with qir more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 10
• שָׁתַן shatan “to urinate” 6
• סָבִיב saviv “around” 10
• כְּרוּב keruv “cherub” 7
• צֵלָע tsela “side” 6
• חָתַר chatar “to dig” 4
• עֵץ ets “tree” 7
• טוּחַ tuach “to overspread” 4
• אֶרֶז erez “cedar” 5
• עַד ad “till” 9
• פֶּתַח petach “entrance” 5
• חוּץ chuts “outside” 5

Key verses

The verses using qir that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Samuel 19:10 — And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David…
• 1 Samuel 25:22 — So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
• 1 Kings 6:5 — And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made…
• 1 Kings 6:29 — And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
• 1 Kings 14:10 — Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and…
• 1 Kings 21:21 — Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up…
• Psalms 62:3 — How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
• Isaiah 22:5 — For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to…
• Isaiah 25:4 — For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the…
• Isaiah 59:10 — We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
• Jeremiah 4:19 — My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the…
• Amos 5:19 — As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.