# H7153 קִרְיַת אַרְבַּע

קִרְיַת אַרְבַּע (Qiryath ʼArbaʻ), Strong’s H7153: Kirjath-Arba or Kirjath-ha-Arba, a place in Palestine KJV: Kirjath-arba.. Occurs 18 times.

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*Qiryath ʼArbaʻ* — Kirjath-Arba or Kirjath-ha-Arba, a place in Palestine

KJV: Kirjath-arba.

Built from [קִרְיָה qiryâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H7151) (building) + [אַרְבַּע ʼArbaʻ](https://besorah.bible/word/H704) (Arba, one of the Anakim) + [אַרְבַּע ʼarbaʻ](https://besorah.bible/word/H702) (four) — means “city of Arba, or city of the four (giants)”

Occurs 18 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- קִרְיַת אַרְבַּע n.pr.loc. older name of Hebron (prob. = fourfold city)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 23:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=2) — Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep…
- [Genesis 35:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=27) — Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as…
- [Joshua 14:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/14?v=15) — Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from…
- [Joshua 15:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/15?v=13) — He gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD…
- [Joshua 15:54](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/15?v=54) — Humtah, Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.
- [Joshua 20:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/20?v=7) — They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath…
- [Joshua 21:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/21?v=11) — They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with…
- [Judges 1:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=10) — Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck…
- [Nehemiah 11:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nehemiah/11?v=25) — As for the villages with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, in Dibon and…