Kiriath
/ˈkɪriæθ/noun
A biblical place-name element or proper name meaning “city,” commonly appearing in names such as Kiriath-jearim.
Did you know?Kiriath is an English transliteration of Hebrew qiryat, the construct form of qiryāh, meaning “city” or “town,” and it survives in several biblical place-names.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Semitic
Proto-Semitic
*qary-at-
“Settlement or inhabited place; a reconstructed ancestor of later Semitic words for city”
Ancient Hebrew
Hebrew
qiryāh
“City, town, or settled place”
Biblical Hebrew
Hebrew
qiryat
“City of; the construct form used before another name or noun”
Ancient Greek
Septuagint Greek
Kariath
“Transliteration of Hebrew qiryat in biblical place-names”
Late Antiquity
Latin
Cariath
“Latin biblical transliteration of the Hebrew place-name element”
Modern English
English
Kiriath
“Traditional English biblical transliteration, especially in compound place-names”