The Definition of the word Kir

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). Isaiah (22:6), who also was contemporary" "with these events, mentions it along with Elam. Some have" "supposed that Kir is a variant of Cush (Susiana), on the south" of Elam.