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).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 518 times (47%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 236 times (22%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 179 times (16%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 157 times (14%)
- Noun, Proper 3 times (0%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 1,095 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
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1 Kings 47 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 8:1 מֵ/עִ֥יר prep + n c fs cs Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.
- 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 9:19 עָרֵ֤י עָרֵ֣י עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs n c fp cs n c fp cs and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
- 1 Kings 9:24 מֵ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he build Millo.
- 1 Kings 10:26 בְּ/עָרֵ֣י prep + n c fp cs Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 11:27 עִ֖יר n c fs cs This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.
- 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 11:43 בְּ/עִ֖יר prep + n c fs cs Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 12:17 בְּ/עָרֵ֣י prep + n c fp cs But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
- 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 13:29 עִיר֙ n c fs cs The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old prophet, to mourn, and to bury him.
- 1 Kings 13:32 בְּ/עָרֵ֥י prep + n c fp cs For the saying which he cried by the word of Yahweh against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely happen.
- 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 14:31 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 15:8 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 15:20 עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
- 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 15:24 בְּ/עִ֖יר prep + n c fs cs Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.
- 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 21:8 בְּ/עִיר֔/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, [and] who lived with Naboth.
- 1 Kings 21:11 עִיר֜/וֹ בְּ/עִיר֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.
- 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 22:36 עִיר֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms There went a cry throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his country.
- 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?
- 1 Kings 22:50 בְּ/עִ֖יר prep + n c fs cs Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 53 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 3:19 עִ֤יר עִ֣יר n c fs cs n c fs cs You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
- 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 8:24 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
- 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 9:28 בְּ/עִ֥יר prep + n c fs cs His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.
- 2 Kings 10:2 וְ/עִ֥יר conj + n c fs cs Now as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor;
- 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 10:25 עִ֥יר n c fs cs It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and kill them; let none come forth. They struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
- 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 12:21 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
- 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 14:20 בְּ/עִ֥יר prep + n c fs cs They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
- 2 Kings 15:7 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 15:38 בְּ/עִ֖יר prep + n c fs cs Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 16:20 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 17:6 וְ/עָרֵ֥י conj + n c fp cs In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
- 2 Kings 17:9 עָ֣רֵי/הֶ֔ם עִ֥יר n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp n c fs cs The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
- 2 Kings 17:24 בְּ/עָרֵ֣י בְּ/עָרֶֽי/הָ prep + n c fp cs prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3fs The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in the cities of it.
- 2 Kings 17:26 בְּ/עָרֵ֣י prep + n c fp cs Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which you have carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, don't know the law of the god of the land: therefore he has sent lions among them, and, behold, they kill them, because they don't know the law of the god of the land.
- 2 Kings 17:29 בְּ/עָ֣רֵי/הֶ֔ם prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.
- 2 Kings 18:8 עִ֥יר n c fs cs He struck the Philistines to Gaza and the borders of it, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
- 2 Kings 18:11 וְ/עָרֵ֥י conj + n c fp cs The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
- 2 Kings 18:13 עָרֵ֧י n c fp cs Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
- 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 19:13 לָעִ֣יר n Proper Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
- 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 23:5 בְּ/עָרֵ֣י prep + n c fp cs He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of the sky.
- 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 23:19 בְּ/עָרֵ֣י prep + n c fp cs All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Yahweh] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in 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 35 verses
- 1 Chronicles 1:43 עִיר֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before there resigned any king over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
- 1 Chronicles 1:46 עִיר֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.
- 1 Chronicles 1:50 עִיר֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.
- 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 4:31 עָרֵי/הֶ֖ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp and at Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susim, and at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities to the reign of David.
- 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 6:57 עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
- 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 6:66 עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
- 1 Chronicles 6:67 עָרֵ֧י n c fp cs They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs,
- 1 Chronicles 9:2 בְּ/עָרֵי/הֶ֑ם prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
- 1 Chronicles 10:7 עָרֵי/הֶם֙ n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
- 1 Chronicles 11:5 עִ֥יר n c fs cs The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not come in here. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
- 1 Chronicles 11:7 עִ֥יר n c fs cs David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.
- 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 13:2 בְּ/עָרֵ֣י prep + n c fp cs David said to all the assembly of Israel, If it seem good to you, and if it be of Yahweh our God, let us send abroad everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us;
- 1 Chronicles 13:13 עִ֣יר n c fs cs So David didn't move the ark to him into the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
- 1 Chronicles 15:1 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs [David] made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
- 1 Chronicles 15:29 עִ֣יר n c fs cs It happened, as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.
- 1 Chronicles 18:8 עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadarezer, David took very much brass, with which Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
- 1 Chronicles 19:7 מֵ/עָ֣רֵי/הֶ֔ם prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
- 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 19:13 עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.
- 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 20:3 עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs He brought forth the people who were therein, and cut [them] with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Thus did David to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
- 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 74 verses
- 2 Chronicles 1:14 בְּ/עָרֵ֣י prep + n c fp cs Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 5:2 מֵ/עִ֥יר prep + n c fs cs Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.
- 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 8:4 עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.
- 2 Chronicles 8:5 עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
- 2 Chronicles 8:6 עָרֵ֤י עָרֵ֣י עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs n c fp cs n c fp cs and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
- 2 Chronicles 8:11 מֵ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of Yahweh has come.
- 2 Chronicles 9:25 בְּ/עָרֵ֣י prep + n c fp cs Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 9:31 בְּ/עִ֖יר prep + n c fs cs Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 10:17 בְּ/עָרֵ֣י prep + n c fp cs But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
- 2 Chronicles 11:5 עָרִ֛ים n c fp Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 11:10 עָרֵ֖י n c fp cs and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.
- 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 11:23 עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought [for them] many wives.
- 2 Chronicles 12:4 עָרֵ֥י n c fp cs He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
- 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 12:16 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his place.
- 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 14:1 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
- 2 Chronicles 14:5 עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
- 2 Chronicles 14:6 עָרֵ֥י n c fp cs He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.
- 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 16:4 עָרֵ֣י עָרֵ֥י n c fp cs n c fp cs Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Maim, and all the store-cities of Naphtali.
- 2 Chronicles 16:14 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs They buried him in his own tombs, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' are: and they made a very great burning for him.
- 2 Chronicles 17:2 עָרֵ֥י וּ/בְ/עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs conj + prep + n c fp cs He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
- 2 Chronicles 17:7 בְּ/עָרֵ֥י prep + n c fp cs Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben Hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;
- 2 Chronicles 17:9 עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs They taught in Judah, having the book of the law of Yahweh with them; and they went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people.
- 2 Chronicles 17:12 וְ/עָרֵ֥י conj + n c fp cs Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.
- 2 Chronicles 17:13 בְּ/עָרֵ֣י prep + n c fp cs He had many works in the cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 17:19 בְּ/עָרֵ֥י prep + n c fp cs These were those who waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.
- 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 19:10 בְּ/עָרֵי/הֶ֗ם prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp Whenever any controversy shall come to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers: this do, and you shall not be guilty.
- 2 Chronicles 20:4 עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs Judah gathered themselves together, to seek [help] of Yahweh: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 21:1 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 21:3 עָרֵ֥י n c fp cs Their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.
- 2 Chronicles 21:20 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
- 2 Chronicles 23:2 עָרֵ֣י n c fp cs They went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' [houses] of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
- 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 24:5 לְ/עָרֵ֪י prep + n c fp cs He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter. However the Levites didn't hurry.
- 2 Chronicles 24:16 בְ/עִיר prep + n c fs cs They buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
- 2 Chronicles 24:25 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs When they were departed for him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they didn't bury him in the tombs of the kings.
- 2 Chronicles 25:13 בְּ/עָרֵ֣י prep + n c fp cs But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and took much spoil.
- 2 Chronicles 25:28 בְּ/עִ֥יר prep + n c fs cs They brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
- 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 27:9 בְּ/עִ֣יר prep + n c fs cs Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 28:15 עִיר n c fs cs The men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers: then they returned to Samaria.
- 2 Chronicles 28:18 בְּ/עָרֵ֨י prep + n c fp cs The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with the towns of it, and Timnah with the towns of it, Gimzo also and the towns of it: and they lived there.
- 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 31:1 לְ/עָרֵ֣י לְ/עָרֵי/הֶֽם prep + n c fp cs prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
- 2 Chronicles 31:6 בְּ/עָרֵ֣י prep + n c fp cs The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them by heaps.
- 2 Chronicles 31:15 בְּ/עָרֵ֥י prep + n c fp cs Under him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brothers by divisions, as well to the great as to the small:
- 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 32:5 עִ֣יר n c fs cs He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
- 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,
About this entry
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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
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
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).
View all 936 occurrences in the concordance →
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
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 936 distinct verses.
- 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.
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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.
