Bible dictionaries

Kirjath

What Bible dictionaries say about “Kirjath”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Kirjath - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

City, a city belonging to Benjamin (Josh. 18:28), the modern Kuriet el-Enab, i.e., "city of grapes", about 7 1/2 miles west-north-west of Jerusalem.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

kur'-jath, kir'-jath.

See KIRIATH.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(a city), the last of the cities enumerated as belonging to the tribe of Benjamin, (Joshua 18:28) probably identical with the better-known place Kirjath-jearim.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith