Where was Kiriath-jearim?

City, a city belonging to Benjamin (Josh. 18:28), the modern Kuriet el-‘Enab, i. e., “city of grapes”, about 7 1/2 miles west-north-west of Jerusalem. Modern identification: Deir el Azar.

Kiriath-jearim is represented in the local geography layer as Deir el Azar. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Joshua 9:17 and is mentioned across 8 books, with 19 verse references collected into the glossary index.