Kirjath-jearim
From the Scriptures themselves
Kirjath-jearim is a name named in Scripture. Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) gives the name's meaning as “city of woods”. The Scriptures below are what the Bible itself says — they are the whole of this entry, gathered from the King James text. (17 places in all; the first six stand here.)
Joshua 9:17 — And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
Joshua 15:9 — And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:
Joshua 15:60 — Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:
Joshua 18:14 — And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
Joshua 18:15 — And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
Judges 18:12 — And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim.