Bible Names

Kirjathaim: meaning of the name

Kirjathaim means “the two cities; callings; or meetings.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Kirjathaim in Hebrew and Greek

קִרְיָתַיִם H7156

Qiryâthayim (keer-yaw-thah'-yim) — Kirjathaim, the name of two placed in Palestine

dual of H7151 (קִרְיָה); double city;

Kirjathaim in Scripture

“Kirjathaim” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 32:37

    And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

  • Joshua 13:19

    And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth–shahar in the mount of the valley,

  • 1 Chronicles 6:76

    And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.