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Kiriath-sepher was the older name of the southern hill-country city later known as Debir. It is important because it appears in the Caleb and Othniel narratives as part of Judah's early conquest and inheritance story. First appears in Josh 15:15.1
AI summary: Kiriath-sepher matters because it belongs to one of the clearest family-and-faith stories in the conquest period. Joshua and Judges remember it as the city offered to the man who would take it, leading to Othniel's victory and marriage into Caleb's household. That makes the place more personal and relational than many conquest names. The cross references present Kiriath-sepher as an older city-name bound up with courage, inheritance, and Judah's settlement.1
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.