Kirjath

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.

Named in the Bible

1 verse

  • Joshua 18:28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.