[tied] Re: Enclosed Places - qirya:

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"

<richard@...>

> wrote:

> > Hebrew qirya: 'town' is the correct citation. However, it

appears

> to come
> > from a root *q-r-y, of which the qal (normal) stem qa:ra: 'to

meet,

> befall'
> > and pi`el (intensive) qe:ra: 'to board up, to seal'.
> >
> > q-r-t doesn't seem to have much representation in Hebrew. All I
> could find
> > was qeret '(small) town'.
>
> >
> The q-r-t root is by memory which also says Phoenician (or Punic).
> Torsten

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c. f. Carthage < Punic 'Kart-hadshat' "New City"
Dan