So they gave them Kiriath-arba, the father of Anak (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah, with its surrounding pastures.
Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her.
Then Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriat-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
At the end of 40 years Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron and pay my vow which I have vowed to Adonai.
Also from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Aner with its open land and Bileam with its open land, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.
Now in those days, Miriam got up and quickly traveled into the hill country, to a town in Judah.
Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba, for Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.
Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior—9 towns with their villages.
They were for the children of Aaron, of the clans of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi, for theirs was the first lot:
But the fields of the city and its villages they had already given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.
Judah then marched against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron (the former name of Hebron was Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
Hebron and to all the places where David and his men had roamed.