Qeret קֶ֫רֶת

Qeret (Hebrew קֶ֫רֶת, Strong's H7176) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “town”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Qeret, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Job

• Job 29:7
  When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,

Proverbs

• Proverbs 8:3
  She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:
• Proverbs 9:3
  She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city.
• Proverbs 9:14
  For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,
• Proverbs 11:11
  By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.By the blessing of the upright a city is built up, but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).