עִיר
city
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
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Judges 43 verses
- Judges 1:8 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
- Judges 1:17 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.
- Judges 1:23 הָ/עִ֥יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
- Judges 1:24 הָ/עִ֑יר הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, Show us, we pray you, the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.
- Judges 1:25 הָ/עִ֔יר הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs He shown them the entrance into the city; and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family.
- Judges 1:26 עִ֗יר n c fs The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name of it Luz, which is the name of it to this day.
- Judges 6:27 הָ/עִ֛יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
- Judges 6:28 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.
- Judges 6:30 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.
- Judges 8:16 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
- Judges 8:17 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.
- Judges 9:30 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
- Judges 9:31 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers are come to Shechem; and, behold, they constrain the city [to take part] against you.
- Judges 9:33 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs and it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early, and rush on the city; and, behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.
- Judges 9:35 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.
- Judges 9:43 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs He took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and, behold, the people came forth out of the city; He rose up against them, and struck them.
- Judges 9:44 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field, and struck them.
- Judges 9:45 בָּ/עִ֗יר הָ/עִ֔יר הָ/עִ֔יר prep det + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people who were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
- Judges 9:51 הָ/עִיר֒ הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower.
- Judges 11:26 הֶֽ/עָרִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c fp While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn't you recover them within that time?
- Judges 11:33 עִ֗יר n c fs He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
- Judges 14:18 הָ/עִ֜יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? He said to them, If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, You wouldn't have found out my riddle.
- Judges 16:2 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs [It was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.
- Judges 16:3 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
- Judges 17:8 מֵ/הָ/עִ֗יר prep + ptcl def.art + n c fs The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to sojourn where he could find [a place], and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he traveled.
- Judges 18:27 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.
- Judges 18:28 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived therein.
- Judges 18:29 הָ/עִיר֙ הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel: however the name of the city was Laish at the first.
- Judges 19:12 עִ֣יר n c fs His master said to him, We won't turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.
- Judges 19:15 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge.
- Judges 19:17 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, Where go you? and whence come you?
- Judges 19:22 הָ/עִ֜יר ptcl def.art + n c fs As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man who came into your house, that we may know him.
- Judges 20:11 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
- Judges 20:14 הֶ/עָרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
- Judges 20:15 מֵ/הֶ֣/עָרִ֔ים prep + ptcl def.art + n c fp The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
- Judges 20:31 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
- Judges 20:32 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.
- Judges 20:37 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The liers-in-wait hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the liers-in-wait drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
- Judges 20:38 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers-in-wait was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.
- Judges 20:40 הָ/עִ֖יר הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and, behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to the sky.
- Judges 20:42 מֵ/הֶ֣/עָרִ֔ים prep + ptcl def.art + n c fp Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of it.
- Judges 20:48 מֵ/עִ֤יר הֶ/עָרִ֥ים prep + n c fs cs ptcl def.art + n c fp The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.
- Judges 21:23 הֶ֣/עָרִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and lived in them.
Ruth 4 verses
- Ruth 1:19 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and [the women] said, Is this Naomi?
- Ruth 2:18 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to her that which she had left after she was sufficed.
- Ruth 3:15 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs He said, Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it; and she held it; and he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid it on her: and he went into the city.
- Ruth 4:2 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit you down here. They sat down.
1 Samuel 21 verses
- 1 Samuel 4:13 בָּ/עִ֔יר הָ/עִֽיר prep det + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
- 1 Samuel 5:9 בָּ/עִיר֙ הָ/עִ֔יר prep det + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs It was so, that after they had carried it about, the hand of Yahweh was against the city with a very great confusion: and he struck the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors broke out on them.
- 1 Samuel 5:11 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
- 1 Samuel 5:12 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The men who didn't die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
- 1 Samuel 7:14 הֶ/עָרִ֡ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and the border of it did Israel deliver out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
- 1 Samuel 9:6 בָּ/עִ֣יר prep det + n c fs He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes surely to pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.
- 1 Samuel 9:10 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went to the city where the man of God was.
- 1 Samuel 9:11 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here?
- 1 Samuel 9:12 לָ/עִ֔יר prep det + n c fs They answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste now, for he is come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place:
- 1 Samuel 9:13 הָ/עִ֣יר ptcl def.art + n c fs as soon as you are come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he does bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat who are invited. Now therefore get you up; for at this time you shall find him.
- 1 Samuel 9:14 הָ/עִ֑יר הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs They went up to the city; [and] as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.
- 1 Samuel 9:25 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs When they were come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.
- 1 Samuel 9:27 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed on), but stand you still first, that I may cause you to hear the word of God.
- 1 Samuel 10:5 הָ/עִ֗יר ptcl def.art + n c fs After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall happen, when you are come there to the city, that you shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:
- 1 Samuel 16:4 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Come you peaceably?
- 1 Samuel 20:29 בָּ/עִ֗יר prep det + n c fs and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me [to be there]: and now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away, I pray you, and see my brothers. Therefore he is not come to the king's table.
- 1 Samuel 20:40 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, Go, carry them to the city.
- 1 Samuel 20:42 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of Yahweh, saying, Yahweh shall be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever. He arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
- 1 Samuel 23:10 לָ/עִ֖יר prep det + n c fs Then said David, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
- 1 Samuel 30:3 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.
- 1 Samuel 31:7 הֶֽ/עָרִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c fp When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
2 Samuel 27 verses
- 2 Samuel 10:3 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
- 2 Samuel 10:14 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 11:16 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
- 2 Samuel 11:17 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
- 2 Samuel 11:20 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he tells you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you know that they would shoot from the wall?
- 2 Samuel 11:25 הָ/עִ֛יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Then David said to the messenger, Thus shall you tell Joab, Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage you him.
- 2 Samuel 12:1 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
- 2 Samuel 12:28 הָ/עִ֖יר הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.
- 2 Samuel 12:30 הָ/עִ֛יר ptcl def.art + n c fs He took the crown of their king from off his head; and the weight of it was a talent of gold, and [in it were] precious stones; and it was set on David's head. He brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
- 2 Samuel 15:2 עִיר֙ n c fs Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, Of what city are you? He said, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 15:14 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.
- 2 Samuel 15:24 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs Behold, Zadok also [came], and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.
- 2 Samuel 15:25 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation:
- 2 Samuel 15:27 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
- 2 Samuel 15:34 הָ/עִ֣יר ptcl def.art + n c fs but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
- 2 Samuel 15:37 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 17:13 עִיר֙ הָ/עִ֥יר n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there not be one small stone found there.
- 2 Samuel 17:17 הָ/עִֽירָ/ה ptcl def.art + n c fs + sfx dem Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a maid-servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David: for they might not be seen to come into the city.
- 2 Samuel 18:3 מֵ/עִ֖יר prep + n c fs But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.
- 2 Samuel 19:3 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
- 2 Samuel 20:6 עָרִ֥ים n c fp David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.
- 2 Samuel 20:15 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
- 2 Samuel 20:16 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Then cried a wise woman out of the city, "Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.'"
- 2 Samuel 20:19 עִ֤יר n c fs I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel: you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why will you swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh?
- 2 Samuel 20:21 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The matter is not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.
- 2 Samuel 20:22 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
- 2 Samuel 24:5 הָ/עִ֛יר ptcl def.art + n c fs They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer:
1 Kings 28 verses
- 1 Kings 4:13 עָרִ֣ים n c fp Ben Geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars);
- 1 Kings 8:16 בְ/עִ֗יר prep + n c fs Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
- 1 Kings 8:44 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;
- 1 Kings 8:48 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:
- 1 Kings 9:11 עִ֔יר n c fs (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
- 1 Kings 9:12 הֶ֣/עָרִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn't please him.
- 1 Kings 9:13 הֶ/עָרִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c fp He said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? He called them the land of Cabul to this day.
- 1 Kings 9:16 בָּ/עִ֖יר prep det + n c fs Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
- 1 Kings 11:32 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David's sake and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);
- 1 Kings 11:36 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
- 1 Kings 13:25 בָ/עִ֔יר prep det + n c fs Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.
- 1 Kings 14:11 בָּ/עִיר֙ prep det + n c fs Him who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: for Yahweh has spoken it.
- 1 Kings 14:12 הָ/עִ֖ירָ/ה ptcl def.art + n c fs + sfx dem Arise you therefore, get you to your house: [and] when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
- 1 Kings 14:21 הָ֠/עִיר ptcl def.art + n c fs Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
- 1 Kings 15:23 וְ/הֶֽ/עָרִים֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
- 1 Kings 16:4 בָּ/עִ֔יר prep det + n c fs Him who dies of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him who dies of his in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.
- 1 Kings 16:18 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the castle of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,
- 1 Kings 16:24 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill, Samaria.
- 1 Kings 17:10 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
- 1 Kings 20:2 הָ/עִֽירָ/ה ptcl def.art + n c fs + sfx dem He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, Thus says Ben Hadad,
- 1 Kings 20:12 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened, when [Ben Hadad] heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said to his servants, Set [yourselves in array]. They set [themselves in array] against the city.
- 1 Kings 20:19 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
- 1 Kings 20:30 הָ/עִיר֒ הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
- 1 Kings 20:34 הֶ/עָרִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c fp [Ben Hadad] said to him, The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you shall make streets for you in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. I, [said Ahab], will let you go with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.
- 1 Kings 21:13 לָ/עִ֔יר prep det + n c fs The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.
- 1 Kings 21:24 בָּ/עִ֔יר prep det + n c fs Him who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.
- 1 Kings 22:26 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
- 1 Kings 22:39 הֶ/עָרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 32 verses
- 2 Kings 2:19 הָ/עִיר֙ הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs The men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, we pray you, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees: but the water is bad, and the land miscarries.
- 2 Kings 2:23 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs He went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead.
- 2 Kings 3:25 וְ/הֶ/עָרִ֣ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth [only] they left the stones of it; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it.
- 2 Kings 6:14 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs Therefore sent he there horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and surrounded the city.
- 2 Kings 6:15 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs When the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was round about the city. His servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
- 2 Kings 6:19 הָ/עִיר֒ ptcl def.art + n c fs Elisha said to them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek. He led them to Samaria.
- 2 Kings 7:4 הָ/עִ֜יר בָּ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs prep det + n c fs If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
- 2 Kings 7:10 הָ/עִיר֒ ptcl def.art + n c fs So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.
- 2 Kings 7:12 הָ/עִיר֙ הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.
- 2 Kings 9:15 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs but king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, If this be your mind, then let none escape and go forth out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.
- 2 Kings 10:5 הָ/עִ֟יר ptcl def.art + n c fs He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who brought up [the children], sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants, and will do all that you shall bid us; we will not make any man king: you do that which is good in your eyes.
- 2 Kings 10:6 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If you be on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
- 2 Kings 11:20 וְ/הָ/עִ֣יר conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house.
- 2 Kings 13:25 הֶֽ/עָרִים֙ עָרֵ֥י ptcl def.art + n c fp n c fp cs Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash strike him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
- 2 Kings 18:30 הָ/עִ֣יר ptcl def.art + n c fs neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
- 2 Kings 19:25 עָרִ֥ים n c fp Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
- 2 Kings 19:32 הָ/עִ֣יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
- 2 Kings 19:33 הָ/עִ֥יר ptcl def.art + n c fs By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 19:34 הָ/עִ֥יר ptcl def.art + n c fs For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
- 2 Kings 20:4 ה/עיר ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle part of the city, that the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
- 2 Kings 20:6 הָ/עִ֣יר הָ/עִ֣יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs I will add to your days fifteen years; and I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
- 2 Kings 20:20 הָ/עִ֑ירָ/ה ptcl def.art + n c fs + sfx dem Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 23:8 מֵ/עָרֵ֣י הָ/עִ֔יר הָ/עִֽיר prep + n c fp cs ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
- 2 Kings 23:17 הָ/עִ֗יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Then he said, What monument is that which I see? The men of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.
- 2 Kings 23:27 הָ/עִ֨יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Yahweh said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
- 2 Kings 24:10 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
- 2 Kings 24:11 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
- 2 Kings 25:2 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
- 2 Kings 25:3 בָּ/עִ֑יר prep det + n c fs On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
- 2 Kings 25:4 הָ/עִ֗יר הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.
- 2 Kings 25:11 בָּ/עִ֗יר prep det + n c fs The residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive.
- 2 Kings 25:19 הָ/עִ֡יר בָ/עִ֔יר בָּ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs prep det + n c fs prep det + n c fs and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city.
1 Chronicles 16 verses
- 1 Chronicles 2:22 עָרִ֔ים n c fp Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 2:23 עִ֑יר n c fs Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages of it, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 4:32 עָרִ֖ים n c fp Their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
- 1 Chronicles 4:33 הֶ/עָרִ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c fp and all their villages that were round about the same cities, to Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.
- 1 Chronicles 6:56 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs but the fields of the city, and the villages of it, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
- 1 Chronicles 6:60 עָרֵי/הֶ֛ם עִ֖יר n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp n c fs and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
- 1 Chronicles 6:61 עָרִ֥ים n c fp To the rest of the sons of Kohath [were given] by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.
- 1 Chronicles 6:62 עָרִ֖ים n c fp To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
- 1 Chronicles 6:63 עָרִ֖ים n c fp To the sons of Merari [were given] by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
- 1 Chronicles 6:64 הֶ/עָרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.
- 1 Chronicles 6:65 הֶ/עָרִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c fp They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.
- 1 Chronicles 11:8 הָ/עִיר֙ הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs He built the city round about, from Millo even round about; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
- 1 Chronicles 19:9 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.
- 1 Chronicles 19:15 הָ/עִ֑ירָ/ה ptcl def.art + n c fs + sfx dem When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 20:2 הָ/עִ֛יר ptcl def.art + n c fs David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
- 1 Chronicles 27:25 בֶּ/עָרִ֤ים prep det + n c fp Over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah:
2 Chronicles 30 verses
- 2 Chronicles 6:5 בְ/עִ֗יר prep + n c fs Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel:
- 2 Chronicles 6:34 הָ/עִ֤יר ptcl def.art + n c fs If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
- 2 Chronicles 6:38 וְ/הָ/עִיר֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name:
- 2 Chronicles 8:2 וְ/הֶ/עָרִ֗ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
- 2 Chronicles 11:5 עָרִ֛ים n c fp Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 11:12 עִ֤יר וָ/עִיר֙ n c fs conj + n c fs In every city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
- 2 Chronicles 12:13 הָ֠/עִיר ptcl def.art + n c fs So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
- 2 Chronicles 13:19 עָרִ֔ים n c fp Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns of it, and Jeshanah with the towns of it, and Ephron with the towns of it.
- 2 Chronicles 14:7 הֶ/עָרִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c fp For he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
- 2 Chronicles 14:14 הֶֽ/עָרִים֙ הֶ֣/עָרִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp ptcl def.art + n c fp They struck all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on them: and they despoiled all the cities; for there was much spoil in them.
- 2 Chronicles 15:6 וְ/עִ֣יר בְּ/עִ֑יר conj + n c fs prep + n c fs They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity.
- 2 Chronicles 15:8 הֶ֣/עָרִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 18:25 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
- 2 Chronicles 19:5 עָרֵ֧י לְ/עִ֥יר וָ/עִֽיר n c fp cs prep + n c fs conj + n c fs He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
- 2 Chronicles 23:21 וְ/הָ/עִ֣יר conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword.
- 2 Chronicles 26:6 עָרִ֔ים n c fp He went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in [the country of] Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
- 2 Chronicles 27:4 וְ/עָרִ֥ים conj + n c fp Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
- 2 Chronicles 28:25 עִ֨יר וָ/עִ֤יר n c fs conj + n c fs In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of his fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 28:27 בָ/עִיר֙ prep det + n c fs Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem; for they didn't bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 29:20 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 30:10 מֵ/עִ֧יר לָ/עִ֛יר prep + n c fs prep det + n c fs So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, and mocked them.
- 2 Chronicles 31:19 עָרֵי/הֶם֙ עִ֣יר וָ/עִ֔יר n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp n c fs conj + n c fs Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites.
- 2 Chronicles 32:1 הֶ/עָרִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c fp After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.
- 2 Chronicles 32:3 לָ/עִ֑יר prep det + n c fs he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city; and they helped him.
- 2 Chronicles 32:6 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying,
- 2 Chronicles 32:18 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs They cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
- 2 Chronicles 32:29 וְ/עָרִים֙ conj + n c fp Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance.
- 2 Chronicles 33:14 לְ/עִיר הֶ/עָרִ֥ים prep + n c fs cs ptcl def.art + n c fp Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 33:15 לָ/עִֽיר prep det + n c fs He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
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The Hebrew noun עיר centers on the idea of “city.” Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 4:17. It turns up in 936 verses across 37 books, one of the most common footprint. The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. It shares a root with עור, עיר and עיר. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
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About this word
Strong's H5892 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 936
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 936 distinct verses.
- 37 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 37 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #35
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 35 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Most concentrated in
- Joshua 128 verses 14%
- Jeremiah 118 verses 13%
- 2 Chronicles 74 verses 8%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
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- Prophets (Nevi'im) 602 verses · 64%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 191 verses · 20%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 143 verses · 15%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 4 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: City 554×, Cities 316×, All the cities 34×
- American Standard Version†: City 504×, Cities 294×, All the cities 32×
- Berean Standard Bible†: City 567×, Cities 332×, Towns 20×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: City 486×, Cities 246×, Cities of 115×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5892 across 1,081† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 100 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5892 across 1,079† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 157 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5892 across 1,034† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 56 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 58 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5892 across 1,092† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 48 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
12 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 12 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
עיר I [m.] agitation
עיר II
- 1. city, town, abode of men Gn 4:17 (J) and often; גְּדֹלָה 10:12 (J), +, or קְטַנָּה Ec 9:14 (cf. Gn 19:20); especially e.g. Genesis 4:17
- a. fortified: עָרִים בְּצֻרוֹת 2 S 20:6 +, etc., v. בָּצַר, מִבְצָר; עִיר מִבְצַר־צֹר Jos 19:29 (P) fortified city (of) Tyre, ע׳ מָצוֹר ψ 31:22 +, etc., v. מָצוֹר, מְצוּרָה sub צוּר (Mi 7:12 v. מָצוֹר p. 596 a); ע׳ עָז־לָנוּ Is 26:1, עָרֵי מָעוּזּוֹ 17:9; ע׳ דְּלָתַים וּבְרִיחַ 1 S 23:7; ע׳ חוֹמָה Lv 25:29, cf. v 30 (P), 1 K 4:13; on Ho 10:14 v. i. עַם 2 b (1 S 9:14 read הַשַּׁעַר 𝔊 We Dr al.). e.g. 2 Samuel 20:6
- b. opp. כֹּפֶר הַפְּרָוִי 1 S 6:18, עָרֵי הַפּ׳ Dt 3:5, ע׳ הַפְּרָזוֹת Est 9:19; disting. from dependencies חֲצֵרִים Jos 13:23 + often P e.g. 1 Samuel 6:18
- c. עָרֶיהָ are dependent towns Jos 13:17 (P), Je 19:15. e.g. Joshua 13:17
- d. עָרֵי הַמַּמְלָכָה Jos 10:2 (JE) royal cities (i.e. with a king, cf. Tel Am. al šarri;), so sg. 1 S 27:5, opp. עָרֵי הַשָּׂדֶה v 5 rural towns; ע׳ הַמְּלוּכָה 2 S 12:26 (but read ע׳ הַמַּיִם We Bu Kit Löhr HPS, v. 2 infr.). e.g. Joshua 10:2
- e. עָרֵי מִסְכְּנוֹת Ex 1:11 storage-cities, so 1 K 9:19 = 2 Ch 8:6; 2 Ch 8:4; 17:12; for מ׳ ע׳ נַפְתָּלִי 16:4 read prob. כִּנְרוֹת עַל־וגו׳ (as 1 K 15:20; Be Kit Buhl); cf. ע׳ הָרֶכֶב 1 K 9:19; 10:26 = 2 Ch 8:6; 9:25; 2 Ch 1:14; ע׳ הַפָּרָשִׁים 1 K 9:19 = 2 Ch 8:6. e.g. Exodus 1:11
- f. ע׳ (הַ)מִקְלָט (P) asylum-cities Nu 35:11, 13, 14; Jos 20:2, cf. Nu 35:25, 26, 27, 28, 32, ע׳ לְמִקְלָט v 12; ע׳ מִקְלַט הָרֹצֵחַ Jos 21:13 + 4 times 21. e.g. Numbers 35:11
- g. ע׳ (הָ)אֱלֹהִים = Jerus.: ψ 46:5; 87:3, cf. 48:2, 9; ע׳ י׳ Is 60:14 ψ 101:8; ע׳ י׳ צְבָאוֹת 48:9. e.g. Psalms 46:5
- h. city = inhabitants 1 S 4:13; 5:12; Is 22:2 Ru 1:19, so 2 S 20:22 (reading הָעִיר for MT הָעָם) 𝔊 We Dr al. (cf. also foll.). e.g. 1 Samuel 4:13
- i. combinations are: ע׳ רֹכְלִים Ez 17:4 city of merchants; ע׳ מוֹשָׁב ψ 107:4, 7, 36 city for dwelling; especially of character or condition: †ע׳ הַצֶּדֶק Is 1:26, †ע׳ הָאֱמֶת Zc 8:3; †ע׳ הַקֹּדֶשׁ Is 48:2; 52:1 Ne 11:1, 18, cf. Dn 9:24, all of Jerus.; עָרֵי קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ Je 5:17 of Judaean cities; of foreign cities, ע׳ תְּהִלָּה Je 49:25, הַהֻלָּלָה הָע׳ Ez 26:17, הָע׳ הָעַלִּיזָה Zp 2:15; of Jerus. also הָע׳ הַיּוֹנָה Zp 3:1 oppressive city, ע׳ (הַ)דָּמִים bloody city Ez 22:2; 24:6, 9 and (of Nineveh) Na 3:1. e.g. Ezekiel 17:4
- 2. of fortress in a city especially עִיר דָּוִד 2 S 5:7, 9; 6:10 + often (v. דָּוִד); ע׳ בֵּית הַבָּ֑עַל 2 K 10:25 (crpt.; Klo proposes דְּבִיר for ע׳, cf. Kmp Benz Kit); ע׳ הַמַּיִם 2 S 12:27 (so read also v 26, see 1 d). e.g. 2 Samuel 5:7
- 3. appar. fortified place, of any size, בְּכָל־עָרֵיהֶם מִמִּגְדַּל נוֹצְרִים עַד־ עִיר מִבְצָר 2 K 17:9 = 18:8; cf. Nu 13:9 (P; but on comp. of ver. see Di); perhaps also ע׳ עֲמָלֵק 1 S 15:5 (HPS).—Ho 7:4 v. I. עור Hiph. e.g. 2 Kings 17:9
עיר III m. in בְּנֵי ע׳ 1 Ch 7
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.[m.] agitation;—of terror, ע׳ וּבֶהָלוֹת Je 15:8; of rage (si vera l.), לֹא אָבוֹא בְּעִיר Ho 11:9, but St proposes לְבָעֵר cf. We Oort Now GASm.—בָּעִיר ψ 73:20 v. עור Hiph.—ii, iii. עִיר v. p. 746 infr.
III. n.f. Gn 10:12 (AlbrechtZAW xvi. 49 f.) city, town (√ unkn.; NH id.;? Ph. ער Lzb345; Sab. ער fortified height (cf. 3) PräZMG xxvi (1872), 437, ערן, עהרן city CISiv. pp. 94, 95, 173);—ע׳ abs. Gn 4:17 +, cstr. 24:10 +; הָעִ֫ירָה 1 K 14:12 + 7 times; sf. עִירִי 2 S 19:38 + 2 times, etc.; pl. עָרִים Is 6:11 +, עֲיָרִים Ju 10:4 (textual error, or word-play, cf. GFM); cstr. עָרֵי Gn 19:29 +; sf. עָרַי Zc 1:17, עָרֵיכֶם Is 1:7 +, etc.;—
IV. n.pr.m. in בְּנֵי ע׳ 1 Ch 7:12, text dub., v. Be Kau.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עור (ʻûwr) (H5782) — to awake.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עֲיָירוֹת
- , pl. of עִיר.
*עַיִר
- (= h. עַיִר; v. עוּר; cmp. נַעַר) foal. Targ. Zech. IX, 9.—Pl. עַיְרִין. Targ. Jud. X, 4; v. עִיל.
עִיר I
- (עוּר) guardian, angel. Midr. Till. to Ps. CXVIII, 8 ולא ירד עמו לא ע׳ ולא שרף וכ׳ ed. Bub. (oth. ed. לא ע׳ ולא קדיש, borrowed from Dan. IV, 10) nor went down with him (Abraham) a guardian, or Seraph, or angel. Ib. to Ps. 1 (play on עיר, Gen. XI, 4) ואין ע׳ אלא אלוה ʿir means a deity (ref. to Dan. l. c.).—Pl. עִירִין. Pes. 33ᵃ (quot. fr. Dan. IV, 14) בגזירת ע׳ וכ׳ by the decree of the guardians (scholars) the word (is established) &c., i.e. they have so decided at college.—[עִיר awake, v. עוּר ch.] e.g. Daniel 4:10
עִיר II
- [watch-tower, fort,] town, city. B. Kam. 80ᵇ הלוקח ע׳ בארץ וכ׳ he who buys a township in Palestine, is bound by law to buy also the accesses to it on four sides. Snh. 17ᵇ כל ע׳ שאין בה עשרה וכ׳ in a town in which there are not the following ten things (institutions), a scholar is not permitted to live. Snh. I, 6 וכמה יהא בע׳ וכ׳ and how large must the population of a town be, to be fit as a seat for a Sanhedrin? Yoma 20ᵇ הָעִ׳ (Ms. M. רומי) the City of Rome; Pes. 119ᵃ בָּעִ׳ (Ms. M. ברומי) in Rome; a. v. fr.—Pl. עָרִים, עֲיָירוֹת. Tosef. Macc. III (II), 1; Macc. 9ᵇ שלש ע׳ הבדיל וכ׳ Moses set apart three towns (of refuge). Ib. II, 4, a. fr. עָרֵי מקלט, v. מִקְלָט. Meg. I, 1, sq.; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 276 distinct written forms H5892 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 216 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5892, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- עירא ʻÎyrâʼ H5896 Ira
- ער ʻÊr H6147 Er
- ערי ʻÊrîy H6179 Eri
- ערן ʻÊrân H6197 Eran
- עיר ʻÎyr H5893 Ir
- עיר המלח ʻÎyr ham-Melach H5898 Ir-hammelech
- עיר התמרים ʻÎyr hat-Tᵉmârîym H5899 the city of palmtrees
- עירו ʻÎyrûw H5900 Iru
- עירי ʻÎyrîy H5901 Iri
- עירם ʻÎyrâm H5902 Iram
- עיר נחש ʻÎyr Nâchâsh H5904 Ir-nahash
- עיר שמש ʻÎyr Shemesh H5905 Ir-shemesh
- ער ʻÂr H6144 Ar
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 18 — not the complete family. 13 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 879 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 936 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 4:17
- Exodus 1:11
- Leviticus 14:40
- Numbers 13:19
- Deuteronomy 1:22
- Joshua 3:16
- Judges 1:8
- Ruth 1:19
- 1 Samuel 1:3
- 2 Samuel 2:1
- 1 Kings 2:10
- 2 Kings 2:19
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
