qir is used as the proper name of a Moabite location named in an oracle of nighttime ruin.

The lone attestation uses qir as a proper place-name: a location of Moab named in an oracle that announces its ruin in the night.

1. A Moabite place named in an oracle · dominant

   In Isaiah 15:1, the form קִיר is tagged as a proper noun and occurs in the clause naming “Kir of Moab” alongside its nighttime ruin; the APB renders the clause “Kir of Moab was ruined in the night and ceased.”

   Isaiah 15:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Isaiah 15:1, the APB presents the name as “Kir of Moab” in the announcement of nighttime ruin. The verse is read as a whole, but the place-name correspondence is clear in the clause.