עִירִי
Iri
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Iri’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5901 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
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עירי — transliterated ʻÎyrîy — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Iri.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 1 Chronicles. A true hapax — its single appearance is 1 Chronicles 7:7. See 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5901 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Iri 1×
- American Standard Version: Iri 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Iri 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Iri 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5901 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5901 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5901 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Iri = "belonging to a city"
- a Benjamite, son of Bela
Word origin
עִירִי n.pr.m. Benjamite 1 Ch 7:7
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עיר (ʻîyr) (H5892) — city.
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.
עוּר
- , to stir up, awaken; to awake. Targ. Job XLI, 2 יְעוּרִ׳ (ed. Lag. a. oth. יְעִרִ׳ Af.).—Taan. 4ᵃ עוּרוּ, v. עוּרְפִּילָא.—Part. עָיֵיר, עָיֵר; f. עָיְירָא, עָיְרָא. Targ. Cant. V, 2.—Part. pass. עִיר, pl. עִירִין, עִירֵי awake. Y. Ber. I, 2ᵈ עד כדון ברייתא ע׳ until then (the end of the first night-watch) men are awake. Snh. 29ᵇ ע׳ ושכבי ליהוי וכ׳ shall those awake and those asleep be witnesses against thee (i.e. wouldst thou say so within the hearing of &c.)?
- 1. to stir up, awaken. Targ. Is. XIV, 9 אֲעִירַת (ed. Lag. אעדת, read אֲעָרַת). Targ. Zech. IV, 1.
- 2. to wake, watch; to wake up. Targ. Y. II, Deut. XXXII, 11 (not מֵעִיד); a. e.—Midr. Till. to Ps. XXII (ref. to ib. LVII, 9) אֲעִיר יקרי וכ׳ wake up, my dignity (soul), before the dignity of my Maker (v. infra).
- to stir up, awaken. Targ. Ps. LXXX, 3. Targ. Y. I Deut. l. c.—Y. Ber. I, 2ᵈ (ref. to Ps. LVII, 9) אנא הוינא מְעוֹרֵר שחרה וכ׳ I am wont to wake up the dawn, the dawn never wakes me up; Pesik. Vayhi, p. 63ᵃ; Pesik. R. s. 17 ושחרה לא עוֹרְרַתְנִי; Midr. Till. l. c.; Lam. R. to II, 18; a. e. e.g. Psalms 57:9
- , Ittaf. אִתָּעַר to be stirred up; to awake; to bestir one’s self. Targ. Job XIV, 12. Targ. Gen. XLI, 4. Targ. Hab. II, 19; a. e.—Y. Ber. l. c. אִתְעִיר יקרי wake up, my dignity (v. supra); Pesik. l. c. אִיתְּעַר; Pesik. R. l. c.; Lam. R. l. c.; Yalk. Ps. 776 יִתָּעַר יקרי וכ׳ let my dignity wake up. Ber. 4ᵃ לאִתְעוּרֵי משנתיה (Ms. M. לאִתְעוּרֵיה) for the purpose of (his) being waked up from his sleep; Yalk. Ex. 186. Lev. R. s. 12, beg. א׳ משנתיה וכ׳ when he woke up from his sleep, he saw &c.; a. fr.—Koh. R. to I, 8 כיון דא׳ בך חמרא וכ׳ since that wicked man’s ass has been stirred up against thee (as it will be a constant reproach to thee that that man has caused thee to ride on the Sabbath), thou canst no longer stay &c.; [Matt. K.: since that wicked man’s ass has brayed at thee, as if from נער, v. נָעַר I.] e.g. Habakkuk 2:19
עירי
- , Y. Yeb. VIII, 9ᵈ top, v. מושהן
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5901, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- 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
- 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 10 — not the complete family. 8 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Iri). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
or Ir (belonging to a city), a Benjamite, son of Bela. (1 Chronicles 7:7,12)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
fire; light
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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