qir denotes a wall or built vertical side, including house, temple, city, altar, and enclosing surfaces.

The term denotes a built wall or vertical side: it names house and temple surfaces, a city wall, the side of an altar, and a barrier against or through which people act. The same concrete reference remains in scenes involving contact with a wall, construction and ornamentation, or digging an opening through it.

1. Built wall or vertical side · dominant

   The noun identifies constructed surfaces and boundaries. In 1 Kings 6:15 the APB renders the clause about building and covering the house's interior surfaces as “the walls of the house,” while Joshua 2:15 places a house “in the wall of the city.” It also marks a surface that can be touched, pierced, or decorated: in 1 Samuel 19:10 the spear is struck “into the wall,” in Ezekiel 12:5 an opening is dug through it, and in Ezekiel 23:14 images are engraved upon it.

   1 Kings 6:15Joshua 2:151 Samuel 19:10Ezekiel 12:5Ezekiel 23:14Leviticus 1:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB commonly presents the term as “wall” or “walls,” including the city wall in Joshua 2:15 and the altar's “side” in Leviticus 1:15. These renderings confirm the settings without fixing every individual English correspondence.