One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Kir. Every Kir in the Bible
place · also Kir-hareseth · Mizpeh
Kir
קִיר
Kir, also known as Mizpeh, was a Moabite city that faced destruction by the Babylonians (Isaiah 15:1; Jeremiah 48:1, 23).
- verses
- 7
- first named
- 1 Samuel 22:3
- last named
- Jeremiah 48:31
- feature
- mountain range
- coordinates
- 33.12°N · 45.93°E
Der (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 9 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Kir in the text
Kir, also referred to as Mizpeh, was a city in Moab, east of the Dead Sea. It is mentioned several times in the prophetic books of Isaiah and Jeremiah in the context of God's judgment against Moab. Isaiah prophesied that Kir would be destroyed in a night (Isaiah 15:1), and Jeremiah foretold that Kir would face judgment and destruction by the Babylonians (Jeremiah 48:1, 23). The city was known for its fortifications, as the name "Kir" means "wall" or "fortress." According to 2Ki.3.25, during the campaign of the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom against Moab, they destroyed the cities and stopped up the springs of water, including those of Kir-hareseth, which may be another name for Kir. The exact location of Kir is uncertain, but it was likely situated in southern Moab, possibly near the modern-day town of Al-Karak.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Located in
Stands in the same events as
- David1 event
- Destruction1 event
- Moab1 event
The pattern
Where Kir is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
7 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Samuel (1), 2 Kings (1), Isaiah (3) and Jeremiah (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 7, across 4 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources