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πόλεις — 283x G4172 πόλις
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N-APF
Occurrences: 163 times in 150 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Accusative Plural Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - and He overthrew those cities, and all the [fn]valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the [fn]valley, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 - As they journeyed, there was [fn]a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with [fn]hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25 - ‘I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - ‘I will [fn]lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - So Israel made a vow to the LORD and said, “If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will [fn]utterly destroy their cities.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3 - The LORD heard the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites; then they [fn]utterly destroyed them and their cities. Thus the name of the place was called [fn]Hormah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:25 - Israel took all these cities and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her [fn]villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:39 - And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:10 - Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:16 - Then they came near to him and said, “We will build here sheepfolds for our livestock and cities for our little ones;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:24 - “Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do [fn]what you have promised.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Joseph's son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities with their [fn]territories, the cities of the surrounding land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:36 - and Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to live in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “The cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - “All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, [fn]together with their pasture lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - “As for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the sons of Israel, you shall take more from the larger and you shall take less from the smaller; each shall give some of his cities to the Levites in proportion to his possession which he inherits.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - then you shall select for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, that the manslayer who has [fn]killed any person unintentionally may flee there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13 - ‘The cities which you are to give shall be your six cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - ‘You shall give three cities across the Jordan and three cities [fn]in the land of Canaan; they are to be cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:22 - “Then all of you approached me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may search out the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we should go up and the cities which we shall enter.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - “Only you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the [fn]river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the LORD our God had commanded us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4 - “We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:12 - “So we took possession of this land at that time. From Aroer, which is by the [fn]valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 - Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the [fn]east,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 - “Then it shall come about when the LORD your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - “Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities [fn]fortified to heaven,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15 - “Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations [fn]nearby.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:17 - Then the sons of Israel set out and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:19 - but do not stay there yourselves; pursue your enemies and [fn]attack them in the rear. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - It came about when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished [fn]slaying them with a very great slaughter, until they were destroyed, and the survivors who remained of them [fn]had entered the fortified cities,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:12 - Joshua captured all the cities of these kings, and all their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:13 - However, Israel did not burn any cities that stood on their mounds, except Hazor alone, which Joshua burned.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:17 - Heshbon, and all its cities which are on the plain: Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - even all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:31 - also half of Gilead, with Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir according to their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:12 - But the sons of Manasseh could not take possession of these cities, because the Canaanites persisted in living in that land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:9 - So the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying,[fn]Designate the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you [fn]through Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:2 - They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “The LORD commanded [fn]through Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasture lands for our cattle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:3 - So the sons of Israel gave the Levites from their inheritance these cities with their pasture lands, according to the [fn]command of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:8 - Now the sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as the LORD had commanded [fn]through Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:9 - They gave these cities which are here mentioned by name from the tribe of the sons of Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:16 - and [fn]Ain with its pasture lands and Juttah with its pasture lands and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands; nine cities from these two tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:18 - Anathoth with its pasture lands and [fn]Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:22 - and Kibzaim with its pasture lands and Beth-horon with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:24 - Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:25 - From the half-tribe of Manasseh, they allotted Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27 - To the sons of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, from the half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands; two cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:29 - Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En-gannim with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:31 - Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:32 - From the tribe of Naphtali, they gave Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands and Kartan with its pasture lands; three cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:35 - Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:37 - Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:13 - ‘I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you had not built, and you have lived in them; you are eating of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:20 - Then they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had [fn]promised; and he drove out from there the three sons of Anak.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11 - “At the sound of those who divide flocks among the watering places,
There they shall recount the righteous deeds of the LORD,
The righteous deeds for His [fn]peasantry in Israel.
Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:4 - He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities [fn]in the land of Gilead that are called [fn]Havvoth-jair to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - He struck them with a very great slaughter from Aroer [fn]to the entrance of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim. So the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - The men of Israel then turned back against the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city with the cattle and all that they found; they also set on fire all the cities which they found.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:23 - The sons of Benjamin did so, and took wives according to their number from those who danced, whom they carried away. And they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the cities and lived in them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:9 - Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! For if I should indeed learn that evil has been decided by my father to come upon you, then would I not tell you about it?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:7 - When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, with those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; then the Philistines came and lived in them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:6 - And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom; take your lord's servants and pursue him, so that he does not find for himself fortified cities and escape from our sight.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7 - and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they [fn]did not please him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 - Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the LORD, his own house, the [fn]Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - Ben-hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore, and you shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.” Ahab said, “And I will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:25 - Thus they destroyed the cities; and each one threw a stone on every piece of good land and filled it. So they stopped all the springs of water and felled all the good trees, until in Kir-hareseth only they left its stones; however, the slingers went about it and struck it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25 - Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken in war from the hand of Jehoahaz his father. Three times Joash [fn]defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13 - Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 - ‘Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From ancient times I planned it.
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:23 - But Geshur and Aram took [fn]the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:57 - To the sons of Aaron they gave the following cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah also with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:64 - So the sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:65 - They gave by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, the tribe of the sons of Simeon and the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:67 - They gave to them the following cities of refuge: Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its pasture lands, Gezer also with its pasture lands,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:7 - When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they had fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:2 - that he built the cities which Huram had given to [fn]him, and settled the sons of Israel there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:4 - He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities which he had built in Hamath.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5 - He also built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates and bars;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:6 - and Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for [fn]his chariots and cities for [fn]his horsemen, and all that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land [fn]under his rule.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:5 - Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and built cities for defense in Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:10 - Zorah, Aijalon and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:19 - Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured from him several cities, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages and [fn]Ephron with its villages.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - For he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still [fn]ours because we have sought the LORD our God; we have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:14 - They [fn]destroyed all the cities around Gerar, for the dread of the LORD had fallen on them; and they despoiled all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:4 - So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they [fn]conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim and all the [fn]store cities of Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:12 - So Jehoshaphat grew greater and greater, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:5 - He gathered the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect money from all Israel to [fn]repair the house of your God [fn]annually, and you shall do the matter quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:13 - But the [fn]troops whom Amaziah sent back from going with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 of them and plundered much spoil.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:6 - Now he went out 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 area of Ashdod and among the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:4 - Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built fortresses and towers on the wooded hills.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:18 - The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the [fn]lowland and of the Negev of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, and Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages, and they settled there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the [fn]Asherim and pulled down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, [fn]until they had destroyed them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:1 - After these [fn]acts of faithfulness Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and besieged the fortified cities, and [fn]thought to break into them for himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:28 - storehouses also for the produce of grain, wine and oil, pens for all kinds of cattle and [fn]sheepfolds for the flocks.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:29 - He made cities for himself and acquired flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great [fn]wealth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25 - “They captured fortified cities and a [fn]fertile land.
They took possession of houses full of every good thing,
Hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive groves,
Fruit trees in abundance.
So they ate, were filled and grew fat,
And reveled in Your great goodness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:28 - “He has lived in desolate cities,
In houses no one would inhabit,
Which are destined to become [fn]ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6 - [fn]The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins,
And You have uprooted the cities;
The very memory of them has perished.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:20 - For they speak [fn]against You wickedly,
And Your enemies [fn]take Your name in vain.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:22 - A wise man scales the city of the mighty
And brings down the [fn]stronghold in which they trust.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - I send it against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My fury
To capture booty and to seize plunder,
And to [fn]trample them down like mud in the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:13 - For he has said,
“By the power of my hand and by my wisdom I did this,
For I have understanding;
And I removed the boundaries of the peoples
And plundered their treasures,
And like a mighty man I brought down [fn]their inhabitants,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:17 - Who made the world like a wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who did not [fn]allow his prisoners to go home?'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 - For You have made a city into a heap,
A fortified city into a ruin;
A palace of strangers is a city no more,
It will never be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:5 - “For He has brought low those who dwell on high, the unassailable city;
He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He casts it to the dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 - Thorns will come up in its fortified towers,
Nettles and thistles in its fortified cities;
It will also be a haunt of jackals
And an abode of ostriches.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 - Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 - “For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left.
And your [fn]descendants will possess nations
And will resettle the desolate cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 - Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins,
They will raise up the former devastations;
And they will repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:15 - “For, behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD; “and they will come and they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls round about and against all the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:5 - Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say,
“Blow the trumpet in the land;
Cry aloud and say,
‘Assemble yourselves, and let us go
Into the fortified cities.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 - “Report it to the nations, now!
Proclaim over Jerusalem,
‘Besiegers come from a far country,
And lift their voices against the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 - Therefore a lion from the forest will slay them,
A wolf of the deserts will destroy them,
A leopard is watching their cities.
Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces,
Because their transgressions are many,
Their apostasies are numerous.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17 - “They will devour your harvest and your food;
They will devour your sons and your daughters;
They will devour your flocks and your herds;
They will devour your vines and your fig trees;
They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14 - Why are we sitting still?
Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities
And let us perish there,
Because the LORD our God has doomed us
And given us poisoned water to drink,
For we have sinned against the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - “I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
A haunt of jackals;
And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - The sound of a report! Behold, it comes
A great commotion out of the land of the north
To make the cities of Judah
A desolation, a haunt of jackals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:15 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6 - For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah:
“You are like Gilead to Me,
Like the summit of Lebanon;
Yet most assuredly I will make you like a wilderness,
Like cities which are not inhabited.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:21 - “Set up for yourself roadmarks,
Place for yourself guideposts;
Direct your [fn]mind to the highway,
The way by which you went.
Return, O virgin of Israel,
Return to these your cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:1 - The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, with all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the remaining cities of Judah, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:22 - ‘Behold, I am going to command,' declares the LORD, ‘and I will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘You yourselves have seen all the calamity that I have brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are in ruins and no one lives in them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 - “Leave the cities and dwell among the crags,
O inhabitants of Moab,
And be like a dove that nests
Beyond the mouth of the chasm.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:7 - “I made you [fn]numerous like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine ornaments; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7 - ‘He [fn]destroyed their [fn]fortified towers
And laid waste their cities;
And the land and its fullness were appalled
Because of the sound of his roaring.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - For thus says the Lord GOD, “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:9 - “Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will go out and make fires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - An area 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession [fn]cities to dwell in.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:15 - “Then the king of the North will come, cast up a siege ramp and capture a well-fortified city; and the forces of the South will not stand their ground, not even [fn]their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:14 - For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:14 - “Also I will restore the [fn]captivity of My people Israel,
And they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them;
They will also plant vineyards and drink their wine,
And make gardens and eat their fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:20 - And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel,
Who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,
And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
Will possess the cities of the Negev.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:11 - [fn]Go on your way, inhabitant of [fn]Shaphir, in shameful nakedness.
The inhabitant of [fn]Zaanan does not [fn]escape.
The lamentation of [fn]Beth-ezel: “He will take from you its [fn]support.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:11 - “I will also cut off the cities of your land
And tear down all your fortifications.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14 - “I will root out your [fn]Asherim from among you
And destroy your cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:16 - A day of trumpet and battle cry
Against the fortified cities
And the high corner towers.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:12 - Then the angel of the LORD said, “O LORD of hosts, how long will You have no compassion for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been indignant these seventy years?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:20 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts,It will yet be that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:21 - ‘The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, “Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; [fn]I will also go.”
N-NPF
Occurrences: 119 times in 109 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Nominative Plural Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your [fn]seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your [fn]seed shall possess the gate of [fn]their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - They blessed Rebekah and said to her,
“May you, our sister,
Become thousands of ten thousands,
And may your [fn]descendants possess
The gate of those who hate them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - ‘As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - ‘You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - “How is the land in which they live, is it good or bad? And how are the cities in which they live, are they [fn]like open camps or with fortifications?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:28 - “Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw the [fn]descendants of Anak there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Joseph's son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities with their [fn]territories, the cities of the surrounding land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:3 - “The cities shall be theirs to live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their herds and for all their beasts.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12 - ‘The cities shall be to you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands before the congregation for [fn]trial.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13 - ‘The cities which you are to give shall be your six cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - ‘These six cities shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the alien and for the sojourner among them; that anyone who [fn]kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 - ‘Where can we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified to heaven. And besides, we saw the sons of the Anakim there.”'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5 - “All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many [fn]unwalled towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:10 - all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:2 - you shall set aside three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to [fn]possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:7 - “Therefore, I command you, saying, ‘You shall set aside three cities for yourself.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - if you [fn]carefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in His ways alwaysthen you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:17 - Then the sons of Israel set out and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 - The border of the sons of Reuben was the [fn]Jordan. This was the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:25 - Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer which is before Rabbah;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:28 - This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:30 - Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the [fn]towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:4 - For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - “Now then, give me this hill country about which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps the LORD will be with me, and I will [fn]drive them out as the LORD has spoken.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:21 - Now the cities at the extremity of the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the border of Edom in the south were Kabzeel and Eder and Jagur,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:25 - and Hazor-hadattah and Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor),
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:32 - and Lebaoth and Shilhim and Ain and Rimmon; in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:36 - and Shaaraim and Adithaim and Gederah and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:41 - and Gederoth, Beth-dagon and Naamah and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:44 - and Keilah and Achzib and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:51 - and Goshen and Holon and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:54 - and Humtah and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:57 - Kain, Gibeah and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:59 - and Maarath and Beth-anoth and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:60 - Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:62 - and Nibshan and the City of Salt and Engedi; six cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9 - together with the cities which were set apart for the sons of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:21 - Now the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-keziz,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:24 - and Chephar-ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - and Zelah, Haeleph and the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:6 - and Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:7 - Ain, Rimmon and Ether and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:16 - This was the inheritance of the sons of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:23 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:35 - The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer and Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:41 - The territory of their inheritance was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:48 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3 - that the manslayer who [fn]kills any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become your refuge from the avenger of blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever [fn]kills any person unintentionally may flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the congregation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:4 - Then the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. And the sons of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, [fn]received thirteen cities by lot from the tribe of Judah and from the tribe of the Simeonites and from the tribe of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5 - The rest of the sons of Kohath [fn]received ten cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Ephraim and from the tribe of Dan and from the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:6 - The sons of Gershon [fn]received thirteen cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:7 - The sons of Merari according to their families [fn]received twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:19 - All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:26 - All the cities with their pasture lands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:33 - All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:39 - Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities in all.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:40 - All these were the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 - All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:14 - The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. So there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13 - Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire), then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:13 - He said, “What are these cities which you have given me, my brother?” So [fn]they were called the land of [fn]Cabul to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:39 - Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did and the ivory house which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - “Now, when this letter comes to you, since your master's sons are with you, [fn]as well as the chariots and horses and a fortified city and the weapons,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:22 - Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:31 - Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri and Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:32 - Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen and Ashan, five cities;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:60 - and from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its pasture lands, [fn]Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61 - Then to the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, from the family of the tribe, from the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:62 - To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, were given from the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher, the tribe of Naphtali, and the tribe of Manasseh, thirteen cities in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:63 - To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:66 - Now some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:6 - He built fortified cities in Judah, since the land was undisturbed, and [fn]there was no one at war with him during those years, because the LORD had given him rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:35 - For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah,
That they may dwell there and possess it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your land is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire,
Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence;
It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,
“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:31 - “Wail, O gate; cry, O city;
[fn]Melt away, O Philistia, all of you;
For smoke comes from the north,
And there is no straggler in his ranks.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 - In that day [fn]their strong cities will be like [fn]forsaken places in the forest,
Or like [fn]branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And [fn]the land will be a desolation.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18 - In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and swearing allegiance to the LORD of hosts; one will be called the City of [fn]Destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 - Desolation is left in the city
And the gate is battered to ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:3 - Therefore a strong people will glorify You;
Cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:1 - Thus says the LORD to Cyrus His anointed,
Whom I have taken by the right hand,
To subdue nations before him
And [fn]to loose the loins of kings;
To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - “The young lions have roared at him,
They have [fn]roared loudly.
And they have made his land a waste;
His cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - “A lion has gone up from his thicket,
And a destroyer of nations has set out;
He has gone out from his place
To make your land a waste.
Your cities will be ruins
Without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 - I looked, and behold, [fn]the fruitful land was a wilderness,
And all its cities were pulled down
Before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:12 - “Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surely will not save them in the time of their disaster.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:19 - The cities of the Negev have been locked up,
And there is no one to open them;
All Judah has been carried into exile,
Wholly carried into exile.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 - But let that man be like the cities
Which the LORD overthrew without [fn]relenting,
And let him hear an outcry in the morning
And a [fn]shout of alarm at noon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the remaining cities of Judah, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9 - “Give [fn]wings to Moab,
For she will [fn]flee away;
And her cities will become a desolation,
Without inhabitants in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:24 - against Kerioth, Bozrah and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:34 - “From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have [fn]raised their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - “For I have sworn by Myself,” declares the LORD, “that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - “Her cities have become an object of horror,
A parched land and a desert,
A land in which no man lives
And through which no son of man passes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - “In all your dwellings, cities will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and [fn]desolate, your idols may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:20 - “The inhabited cities will be laid waste and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am the LORD.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - “So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 - “They will be desolate
In the midst of the desolated lands;
And her cities will be
In the midst of the devastated cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9 - “I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - ‘I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - “They will say, ‘This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38 - “Like the flock [fn]for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:8 - “So two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink water,
But would not be satisfied;
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12 - It will be a day when [fn]they will come to you
From Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
From Egypt even to the [fn]Euphrates,
Even from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:6 - “I have cut off nations;
Their corner towers are in ruins.
I have made their streets desolate,
With no one passing by;
Their cities are laid waste,
Without a man, without an inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:17 - “Again, proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:7 - ‘Are not these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and [fn]prosperous along with its cities around it, and the [fn]Negev and the [fn]foothills were inhabited?'”
N-VSF
Occurrences: 1 time in 1 verse
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Vocative Singular Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:16 - Take your harp, walk about the city,
O forgotten harlot;
Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs,
That you may be remembered.
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