HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7155
קִרְיַת חֻצוֹת
qir.yat chu.tsot — Kiriath-huzoth
§ Kirjath-huzoth = "city of streets" a city in Moab
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Kirjath-huzoth
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Historical dictionary entry
City of streets, Num. 22:39, a Moabite city, which some identify with Kirjathaim. Balak here received and entertained Balaam, whom he had invited from Pethor, among the “mountains of the east,” beyond the Euphrates, to lay his ban upon the Israelites, whose progress he had no hope otherwise of arresting. It was probably from the summit of Attarus, the high place near the city, that the soothsayer first saw the encampments of Israel.
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
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