Bible Names

Kerioth: meaning of the name

Kerioth means “the cities; the callings.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Kerioth in Hebrew and Greek

קְרִיּוֹת H7152

Qᵉrîyôwth (ker-ee-yoth') — Kerioth, the name of two places in Palestine

plural of H7151 (קִרְיָה); buildings;

Places named Kerioth

Kerioth in Scripture

“Kerioth” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 15:25

    And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,

  • Jeremiah 48:24

    And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

  • Jeremiah 48:41

    Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

  • Amos 2:2

    But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: