Where was Kir?

A wall or fortress, a place to which Tiglath-pileser carried the Syrians captive after he had taken the city of Damascus (2 Kings 16:9; Amos 1:5; 9:7). Modern identification: Kerak.

Kir is represented in the local geography layer as Kerak. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Isaiah 15:1 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 1 verse reference collected into the glossary index.