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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Genesis 32 verses
- Genesis 4:17 עִ֔יר הָ/עִ֔יר n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
- Genesis 10:12 הָ/עִ֥יר ptcl def.art + n c fs and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).
- Genesis 11:4 עִ֗יר n c fs They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
- Genesis 11:5 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- Genesis 11:8 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
- Genesis 18:24 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are therein?
- Genesis 18:26 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."
- Genesis 18:28 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
- Genesis 19:4 הָ/עִ֜יר ptcl def.art + n c fs But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
- Genesis 19:12 בָּ/עִ֑יר prep det + n c fs The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
- Genesis 19:14 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
- Genesis 19:15 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
- Genesis 19:16 לָ/עִֽיר prep det + n c fs But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
- Genesis 19:20 הָ/עִ֨יר ptcl def.art + n c fs See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."
- Genesis 19:21 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
- Genesis 19:22 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
- Genesis 19:25 הֶ/עָרִ֣ים הֶ/עָרִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp ptcl def.art + n c fp He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
- Genesis 19:29 עָרֵ֣י הֶ֣/עָרִ֔ים n c fp cs ptcl def.art + n c fp It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
- Genesis 24:11 לָ/עִ֖יר prep det + n c fs He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
- Genesis 24:13 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
- Genesis 26:33 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
- Genesis 28:19 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
- Genesis 33:18 עִ֣יר הָ/עִֽיר n c fs cs ptcl def.art + n c fs Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
- Genesis 34:25 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
- Genesis 34:27 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
- Genesis 34:28 בָּ/עִ֛יר prep det + n c fs They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field;
- Genesis 35:5 הֶֽ/עָרִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c fp They traveled: and a terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.
- Genesis 41:35 בֶּ/עָרִ֖ים prep det + n c fp Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
- Genesis 41:48 בֶּ/עָרִ֑ים הָ/עִ֛יר prep det + n c fp ptcl def.art + n c fs He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, he laid up in the same.
- Genesis 44:4 הָ/עִיר֮ ptcl def.art + n c fs When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?
- Genesis 44:13 הָ/עִֽירָ/ה ptcl def.art + n c fs + sfx dem Then they tore their clothes, and loaded every man his donkey, and returned to the city.
- Genesis 47:21 לֶ/עָרִ֑ים prep det + n c fp As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.
Exodus 2 verses
- Exodus 9:29 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh's.
- Exodus 9:33 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
Leviticus 6 verses
- Leviticus 14:40 לָ/עִ֔יר prep det + n c fs then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city:
- Leviticus 14:41 לָ/עִ֔יר prep det + n c fs and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.
- Leviticus 14:45 לָ/עִ֔יר prep det + n c fs He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
- Leviticus 14:53 לָ/עִ֖יר prep det + n c fs but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean."
- Leviticus 25:29 עִ֣יר n c fs "'If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
- Leviticus 25:30 בָּ/עִ֜יר prep det + n c fs If it isn't redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.
Numbers 19 verses
- Numbers 13:19 הֶֽ/עָרִ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c fp and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
- Numbers 13:28 וְ/הֶֽ/עָרִ֗ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
- Numbers 21:25 הֶ/עָרִ֖ים עָרֵ֣י ptcl def.art + n c fp n c fp cs Israel took all these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns of it.
- Numbers 24:19 מֵ/עִֽיר prep + n c fs Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, Shall destroy the remnant from the city.
- Numbers 32:16 וְ/עָרִ֖ים conj + n c fp They came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
- Numbers 32:24 עָרִים֙ n c fp Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.
- Numbers 32:38 הֶ/עָרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
- Numbers 35:2 עָרִ֣ים לֶֽ/עָרִים֙ n c fp prep det + n c fp Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall you give to the Levites.
- Numbers 35:3 הֶֽ/עָרִ֛ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their animals.
- Numbers 35:4 הֶֽ/עָרִ֔ים הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fp ptcl def.art + n c fs The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits round about.
- Numbers 35:5 לָ/עִ֗יר וְ/הָ/עִ֣יר הֶ/עָרִֽים prep det + n c fs conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fp You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
- Numbers 35:6 הֶֽ/עָרִ֗ים עָרֵ֣י עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fp n c fp cs n c fs The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.
- Numbers 35:7 הֶ/עָרִ֗ים עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fp n c fs All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities; them [shall you give] with their suburbs.
- Numbers 35:8 וְ/הֶֽ/עָרִ֗ים מֵ/עָרָ֖י/ו conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.
- Numbers 35:11 עָרִ֔ים עָרֵ֥י n c fp n c fp cs then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
- Numbers 35:12 הֶ/עָרִ֛ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
- Numbers 35:13 וְ/הֶ/עָרִ֖ים עָרֵ֥י conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp n c fp cs The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
- Numbers 35:14 הֶ/עָרִ֗ים הֶֽ/עָרִ֔ים עָרֵ֥י ptcl def.art + n c fp ptcl def.art + n c fp n c fp cs You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall you give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.
- Numbers 35:15 הֶ/עָרִ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c fp For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
Deuteronomy 36 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:22 הֶֽ/עָרִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp You came near to me everyone of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.
- Deuteronomy 1:28 עָרִ֛ים n c fp Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
- Deuteronomy 2:34 עָרָי/ו֙ עִ֣יר n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:
- Deuteronomy 2:35 הֶ/עָרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp only the cattle we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.
- Deuteronomy 2:36 וְ/הָ/עִ֨יר conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us:
- Deuteronomy 3:4 עָרָי/ו֙ עִיר֙ n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Deuteronomy 3:5 עָרִ֧ים מֵ/עָרֵ֥י n c fp prep + n c fp cs All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
- Deuteronomy 3:6 עִ֣יר n c fs We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
- Deuteronomy 3:7 הֶ/עָרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
- Deuteronomy 4:41 עָרִ֔ים n c fp Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
- Deuteronomy 4:42 הֶ/עָרִ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c fp that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
- Deuteronomy 6:10 עָרִ֛ים n c fp It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,
- Deuteronomy 9:1 עָרִ֛ים n c fp Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
- Deuteronomy 13:15 הָ/עִ֥יר ptcl def.art + n c fs you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle of it, with the edge of the sword.
- Deuteronomy 13:16 הָ/עִ֤יר ptcl def.art + n c fs You shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
- Deuteronomy 19:2 עָרִ֖ים n c fp you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 19:5 הֶ/עָרִים ptcl def.art + n c fp as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
- Deuteronomy 19:7 עָרִ֖ים n c fp Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you.
- Deuteronomy 19:9 עָרִ֔ים n c fp if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, besides these three:
- Deuteronomy 19:11 הֶ/עָרִ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c fp But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities;
- Deuteronomy 20:10 עִ֔יר n c fs When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
- Deuteronomy 20:14 בָ/עִ֛יר prep det + n c fs but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
- Deuteronomy 20:15 הֶ֣/עָרִ֔ים מֵ/עָרֵ֥י ptcl def.art + n c fp prep + n c fp cs Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
- Deuteronomy 20:19 עִיר֩ n c fs When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees of it by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?
- Deuteronomy 20:20 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.
- Deuteronomy 21:2 הֶ֣/עָרִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain:
- Deuteronomy 21:3 הָ/עִ֔יר הָ/עִ֨יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;
- Deuteronomy 21:4 הָ/עִ֨יר ptcl def.art + n c fs and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
- Deuteronomy 21:6 הָ/עִ֣יר ptcl def.art + n c fs All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;
- Deuteronomy 22:15 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;
- Deuteronomy 22:17 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs and, behold, he has laid shameful things [to her charge], saying, I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. They shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
- Deuteronomy 22:18 הָֽ/עִיר ptcl def.art + n c fs The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
- Deuteronomy 22:23 בָּ/עִ֖יר prep det + n c fs If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
- Deuteronomy 22:24 הָ/עִ֣יר בָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs prep det + n c fs then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 28:3 בָּ/עִ֑יר prep det + n c fs Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.
- Deuteronomy 28:16 בָּ/עִ֑יר prep det + n c fs Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
Joshua 105 verses
- Joshua 3:16 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
- Joshua 6:3 הָ/עִ֗יר הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs You shall compass the city, all the men of war, going about the city once. Thus shall you do six days.
- Joshua 6:4 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark: and the seventh day you shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
- Joshua 6:5 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him.
- Joshua 6:7 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs They said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of Yahweh.
- Joshua 6:11 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs So he caused the ark of Yahweh to compass the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
- Joshua 6:14 הָ/עִ֜יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
- Joshua 6:15 הָ/עִ֛יר הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on the day they compassed the city seven times.
- Joshua 6:16 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout; for Yahweh has given you the city.
- Joshua 6:17 הָ/עִ֥יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Yahweh: only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
- Joshua 6:20 הָ/עִ֨ירָ/ה֙ הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs + sfx dem ptcl def.art + n c fs So the people shouted, and [the priests] blew the trumpets; and it happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
- Joshua 6:21 בָּ/עִ֔יר prep det + n c fs They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
- Joshua 6:24 וְ/הָ/עִ֛יר conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs They burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein; only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of Yahweh.
- Joshua 6:26 הָ/עִ֤יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Joshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before Yahweh, that rises up and builds this city Jericho: with the loss of his firstborn shall he lay the foundation of it, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
- Joshua 8:2 לָ/עִ֖יר prep det + n c fs You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: only the spoil of it, and the cattle of it, shall you take for a prey to yourselves: set you an ambush for the city behind it.
- Joshua 8:4 לָ/עִיר֙ הָ/עִ֔יר הָ/עִ֖יר prep det + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; don't go very far from the city, but be all ready:
- Joshua 8:5 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;
- Joshua 8:6 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;
- Joshua 8:7 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
- Joshua 8:8 הָ/עִ֗יר הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on fire; according to the word of Yahweh shall you do: behold, I have commanded you.
- Joshua 8:11 הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs All the people, [even] the [men of] war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between him and Ai.
- Joshua 8:12 לָ/עִֽיר prep det + n c fs He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
- Joshua 8:13 לָ/עִ֔יר לָ/עִ֑יר prep det + n c fs prep det + n c fs So they set the people, even all the host who was on the north of the city, and their liers-in-wait who were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
- Joshua 8:14 הָ/עִ֣יר הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
- Joshua 8:16 ב/עיר הָ/עִֽיר prep det + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
- Joshua 8:17 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't go out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
- Joshua 8:18 הָ/עִֽיר ptcl def.art + n c fs Yahweh said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand. Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
- Joshua 8:19 הָ/עִ֖יר הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire.
- Joshua 8:20 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
- Joshua 8:21 הָ/עִ֔יר הָ/עִ֑יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.
- Joshua 8:22 הָ/עִיר֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The others came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
- Joshua 8:27 הָ/עִ֣יר ptcl def.art + n c fs Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.
- Joshua 8:29 הָ/עִ֔יר ptcl def.art + n c fs The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, to this day.
- Joshua 10:2 עִ֤יר עָרֵ֣י n c fs n c fp cs that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men of it were mighty.
- Joshua 11:13 הֶ/עָרִ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c fp But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.
- Joshua 11:14 הֶ/עָרִ֤ים ptcl def.art + n c fp All the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any who breathed.
- Joshua 11:19 עִ֗יר n c fs There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took all in battle.
- Joshua 13:9 וְ/הָ/עִ֨יר conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
- Joshua 13:16 וְ/הָ/עִ֨יר conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
- Joshua 13:23 הֶ/עָרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan, and the border [of it]. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and the villages of it.
- Joshua 13:28 הֶ/עָרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and the villages of it.
- Joshua 13:30 עִֽיר n c fs Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities:
- Joshua 14:4 עָרִים֙ n c fp For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for their cattle and for their substance.
- Joshua 14:12 וְ/עָרִים֙ conj + n c fp Now therefore give me this hill-country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified: it may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke.
- Joshua 15:21 הֶ/עָרִ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
- Joshua 15:32 עָרִ֛ים n c fp and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.
- Joshua 15:36 עָרִ֥ים n c fp and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:41 עָרִ֥ים n c fp and Gederoth, Beth Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:44 עָרִ֥ים n c fp and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:51 עָרִ֥ים n c fp and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:54 עָרִ֥ים n c fp and Humtah, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:57 עָרִ֥ים n c fp Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:59 עָרִ֥ים n c fp and Maarath, and Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:60 עָרִ֥ים n c fp Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:62 עָרִ֥ים n c fp and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages.
- Joshua 16:9 וְ/הֶ/עָרִ֗ים הֶ/עָרִ֖ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp ptcl def.art + n c fp together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
- Joshua 17:9 עָרִ֤ים עָרֵ֣י n c fp n c fp cs The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook: these cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh: and the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and the goings out of it were at the sea:
- Joshua 17:12 הֶֽ/עָרִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out [the inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
- Joshua 18:9 לֶֽ/עָרִ֛ים prep det + n c fp The men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.
- Joshua 18:21 הֶֽ/עָרִ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth Hoglah, and Emek Keziz,
- Joshua 18:24 עָרִ֥ים n c fp and Chephar Ammoni, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages:
- Joshua 18:28 עָרִ֥ים n c fp and Zelah, Eleph, and the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath, [and] Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
- Joshua 19:6 עָרִ֥ים n c fp and Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
- Joshua 19:7 עָרִ֥ים n c fp Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:
- Joshua 19:8 הֶֽ/עָרִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c fp and all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
- Joshua 19:15 עָרִ֥ים n c fp and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:16 הֶֽ/עָרִ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c fp This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:22 עָרִ֥ים n c fp and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh; and the goings out of their border were at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:23 הֶ/עָרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:30 עָרִ֛ים n c fp Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:31 הֶ/עָרִ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c fp This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:38 עָרִ֥ים n c fp Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth Anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:39 הֶ/עָרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:48 הֶֽ/עָרִ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c fp This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:50 הָ/עִיר֙ הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs according to the commandment of Yahweh they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill-country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived therein.
- Joshua 20:4 מֵ/הֶ/עָרִ֣ים הָ/עִ֔יר הָ/עִֽיר הָ/עִ֨ירָ/ה֙ prep + ptcl def.art + n c fp ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs + sfx dem He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
- Joshua 20:6 בָּ/עִ֣יר עִיר/וֹ֙ הָ/עִ֖יר prep det + n c fs n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms ptcl def.art + n c fs He shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the manslayer return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from whence he fled.
- Joshua 21:2 עָרִ֖ים n c fp and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for our cattle.
- Joshua 21:3 הֶ/עָרִ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their suburbs.
- Joshua 21:4 עָרִ֖ים n c fp The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
- Joshua 21:5 עָרִ֥ים n c fp The rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
- Joshua 21:6 עָרִ֖ים n c fp The children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
- Joshua 21:7 עָרִ֖ים n c fp The children of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
- Joshua 21:8 הֶ/עָרִ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
- Joshua 21:9 הֶֽ/עָרִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c fp They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are [here] mentioned by name:
- Joshua 21:12 הָ/עִ֖יר ptcl def.art + n c fs But the fields of the city, and the villages of it, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
- Joshua 21:16 עָרִ֣ים n c fp and Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
- Joshua 21:18 עָרִ֖ים n c fp Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.
- Joshua 21:19 עָרֵ֥י עָרִ֖ים n c fp cs n c fp All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
- Joshua 21:22 עָרִ֖ים n c fp and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs; four cities.
- Joshua 21:24 עָרִ֖ים n c fp Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; four cities.
- Joshua 21:25 עָרִ֖ים n c fp Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities.
- Joshua 21:26 עָרִ֥ים n c fp All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their suburbs.
- Joshua 21:27 עִיר֙ עָרִ֖ים n c fs cs n c fp To the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh [they gave] Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Be-eshterah with its suburbs; two cities.
- Joshua 21:29 עָרִ֖ים n c fp Jarmuth with its suburbs, En Gannim with its suburbs; four cities.
- Joshua 21:31 עָרִ֖ים n c fp Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
- Joshua 21:32 עִ֣יר עָרִ֖ים n c fs cs n c fp Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammothdor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities.
- Joshua 21:33 עָרֵ֥י עִ֖יר n c fp cs n c fs All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
- Joshua 21:35 עָרִ֖ים n c fp Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities.
- Joshua 21:37 עָרִ֖ים n c fp Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.
- Joshua 21:39 עָרִ֖ים n c fp Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.
- Joshua 21:40 הֶ֨/עָרִ֜ים עָרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp n c fp All [these were] the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
- Joshua 21:41 עָרֵ֣י עָרִ֛ים n c fp cs n c fp All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs.
- Joshua 21:42 הֶ/עָרִ֣ים עִ֣יר עִ֔יר הֶ/עָרִ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c fp n c fs n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fp These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities.
- Joshua 24:13 וְ/עָרִים֙ conj + n c fp I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities which you didn't build, and you dwell therein; of vineyards and olive groves which you didn't plant do you eat.
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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.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
