# H7157 קִרְיַת יְעָרִים

קִרְיַת יְעָרִים (Qiryath Yᵉʻârîym), Strong’s H7157: Kirjath-Jearim or Kirjath-Arim, a place in Palestine KJV: Kirjath, Kirjath-jearim, Kirjath-arim.. Occurs 39 times.

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*Qiryath Yᵉʻârîym* — Kirjath-Jearim or Kirjath-Arim, a place in Palestine

KJV: Kirjath, Kirjath-jearim, Kirjath-arim.

Built from [קִרְיָה qiryâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H7151) (building) + [יַעַר yaʻar](https://besorah.bible/word/H3293) (a copse of bushes) + [עִיר ʻîyr](https://besorah.bible/word/H5892) (a city) — means “city of forests, or city of towns”

Occurs 39 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- קִרְיַת יְעָרִים n.pr.loc. (city of forests);—city of the Gibeonites, assigned to Judah, on border of Benj.; called also קִרְיַת בַּעַל

## Where it occurs
- [Joshua 9:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/9?v=17) — The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah…
- [Joshua 15:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/15?v=9) — The border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of…
- [Joshua 15:60](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/15?v=60) — Kiriath Baal (also called Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.
- [Joshua 18:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/18?v=14) — The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon…
- [Joshua 18:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/18?v=15) — The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the…
- [Joshua 18:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/18?v=28) — Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is…
- [Judges 18:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/18?v=12) — They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they call that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. Behold…
- [1 Samuel 6:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=21) — They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have brought back the LORD’s ark…
- [1 Samuel 7:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/7?v=1) — The men of Kiriath Jearim came and took the LORD’s ark, and brought it into Abinadab’s house on the hill, and…
- [1 Samuel 7:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/7?v=2) — From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long—for it was twenty years; and all the house of…