qir.yat ba.al is used as a proper place-name in city and boundary descriptions.

The supplied verses use the term as a proper place-name: a city named alongside Rabbah in Joshua 15:60 and a point reached by a boundary in Joshua 18:14.

1. Proper place-name in city and boundary lists · dominant

   Both occurrences are tagged Noun · Proper. In Joshua 15:60 the APB renders a city list including “Kiriath-baal—it is Kiriath-jearim”; in Joshua 18:14 it renders the boundary’s outgoings as reaching “Kiriath-baal (that is Kiriath-jearim, a city of the sons of Judah).”

   Joshua 15:60Joshua 18:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “Kiriath-baal” in both verses and identifies it with “Kiriath-jearim.” This identification is read as part of each verse’s presentation rather than as a separate lexical sense.