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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 - So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - And it came to pass, 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 had dwelt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 - And they journeyed, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25 - And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you;
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet 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 utterly destroy their cities.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3 - And the LORD listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of that place was called Hormah.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:25 - So Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:39 - So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kirjath Huzoth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:10 - They also burned with fire all the cities where they dwelt, and all their forts.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:16 - Then they came near to him and said: “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:24 - “Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded out of your mouth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - So Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding country.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:36 - Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the children of Israel that they give the Levites cities to dwell in from the inheritance of their possession, and you shall also give the Levites common-land around the cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “Now among the cities which you will give to the Levites you shall appoint six cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. And to these you shall add forty-two cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - “So all the cities you will give to the Levites shall be forty-eight; these you shall give with their common-land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - “And the cities which you will give shall be from the possession of the children of Israel; from the larger tribe you shall give many, from the smaller you shall give few. Each shall give some of its cities to the Levites, in proportion to the inheritance that each receives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - ‘then you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally may flee there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13 - ‘And of the cities which you give, you shall have six cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - ‘You shall appoint three cities on this side of the Jordan, and three cities you shall appoint in the land of Canaan, which will be cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:22 - “And every one of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - “Only you did not go near the land of the people of Ammon—anywhere along the River Jabbok, or to the cities of the mountains, or wherever the LORD our God had forbidden us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4 - “And we took 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 - “And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, and half the mountains of Gilead and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 - Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 - “So it shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15 - “Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - “then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance from the slain man to the surrounding cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:17 - Then the children of Israel journeyed and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kirjath Jearim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:19 - “And do not stay there yourselves, but pursue your enemies, and attack their rear guard. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - Then it happened, while Joshua and the children of Israel made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they had finished, that those who escaped entered fortified cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:12 - So all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took and struck with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:13 - But as for the cities that stood on their mounds,[fn] Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only, which Joshua burned.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the children of Ammon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:17 - Heshbon and all its cities that are in the plain: Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses had struck with the princes of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who were princes of Sihon dwelling in the country.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:31 - half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Machir according to their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:12 - Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities, but the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:9 - So the men went, passed through the land, and wrote the survey in a book in seven parts by cities; and they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:2 - “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:2 - And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “The LORD commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their common-lands for our livestock.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:3 - So the children of Israel gave to the Levites from their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their common-lands:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:8 - And the children of Israel gave these cities with their common-lands by lot to the Levites, as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:9 - So they gave from the tribe of the children of Judah and from the tribe of the children of Simeon these cities which are designated by name,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:16 - Ain with its common-land, Juttah with its common-land, and Beth Shemesh with its common-land: nine cities from those two tribes;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:18 - Anathoth with its common-land, and Almon with its common-land: four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:22 - Kibzaim with its common-land, and Beth Horon with its common-land: four cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:24 - Aijalon with its common-land, and Gath Rimmon with its common-land: four cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:25 - and from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with its common-land and Gath Rimmon with its common-land: two cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27 - Also to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, from the other half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), and Be Eshterah with its common-land: two cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:29 - Jarmuth with its common-land, and En Gannim with its common-land: four cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:31 - Helkath with its common-land, and Rehob with its common-land: four cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:32 - and from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), Hammoth Dor with its common-land, and Kartan with its common-land: three cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:35 - Dimnah with its common-land, and Nahalal with its common-land: four cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:37 - Kedemoth with its common-land, and Mephaath with its common-land: four cities;[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:13 - ‘I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:20 - And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said. Then he expelled from there the three sons of Anak.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11 - Far from the noise of the archers, among the watering places,
There they shall recount the righteous acts of the LORD,
The righteous acts for His villagers in Israel;
Then the people of the LORD shall go down to the gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:4 - Now he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys; they also had thirty towns, which are called “Havoth Jair”[fn] to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And he defeated them from Aroer as far as Minnith—twenty cities—and to Abel Keramim,[fn] with a very great slaughter. Thus the people of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - And the men of Israel turned back against the children of Benjamin, and struck them down with the edge of the sword—from every city, men and beasts, all who were found. They also set fire to all the cities they came to.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:23 - And the children of Benjamin did so; they took enough wives for their number from those who danced, whom they caught. Then they went and returned to their inheritance, and they rebuilt the cities and dwelt in them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:9 - But Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! For if I knew certainly that evil was determined by my father to come upon you, then would I not tell you?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:7 - And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were on the other side of the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt 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, lest he find for himself fortified cities, and escape us.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7 - and they came to the stronghold of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went out to South Judah as far as Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - Then Hiram went from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, but they did not please him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 - And this is the reason for the labor force which King Solomon raised: to build the house of the LORD, his own house, the Millo,[fn] the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - So Ben-Hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you may set up marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” Then Ahab said, “I will send you away with this treaty.” So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:25 - Then they destroyed the cities, and each man threw a stone on every good piece of land and filled it; and they stopped up all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees. But they left the stones of Kir Haraseth intact. However the slingers surrounded and attacked it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25 - And Jehoash[fn] the son of Jehoahaz recaptured from the hand of Ben-Hadad, the son of Hazael, the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times Joash defeated him and recaptured the cities of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13 - And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 - ‘Did you not hear long ago
How I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:23 - (Geshur and Syria took from them the towns of Jair, with Kenath and its towns—sixty towns.) All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:57 - And to the sons of Aaron they gave one of the cities of refuge, Hebron; also Libnah with its common-lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its common-lands,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:64 - So the children of Israel gave these cities with their common-lands to the Levites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:65 - And they gave by lot from the tribe of the children of Judah, from the tribe of the children of Simeon, and from the tribe of the children of Benjamin these cities which are called by their names.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:67 - And they gave them one of the cities of refuge, Shechem with its common-lands, in the mountains of Ephraim, also Gezer with its common-lands,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:7 - And 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; then the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:2 - that the cities which Hiram[fn] had given to Solomon, Solomon built them; and he settled the children of Israel there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:4 - He also built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities which he built in Hamath.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5 - He built Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:6 - also Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities and the cities of the cavalry, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:5 - So Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:10 - Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and Benjamin, fortified cities.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:19 - And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took cities from him: Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephrain[fn] with its villages.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - Therefore he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and make walls around them, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us, 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 - Then they defeated all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of the LORD came upon them; and they plundered all the cities, for there was exceedingly much spoil in them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:4 - So Ben-Hadad heeded King Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:12 - So Jehoshaphat became increasingly powerful, and he built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:5 - Then he gathered the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you do it quickly.” However the Levites did not do it quickly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:13 - But as for the soldiers of the army which Amaziah had discharged, so that they would not go with him to battle, they raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon, killed three thousand in them, and took much spoil.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:6 - Now he went out and made war against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities around Ashdod and among the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:4 - Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and towers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:18 - The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Sochoh with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages; and they dwelt there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the sacred pillars in pieces, cut down the wooden images, and threw down the high places and the altars—from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh—until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned to their own cities, every man to his possession.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:1 - After these deeds of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered Judah; he encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them over to himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:28 - storehouses for the harvest of grain, wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of livestock, and folds for flocks.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:29 - Moreover he provided cities for himself, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much property.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25 - And they took strong cities and a rich land,
And possessed houses full of all goods,
Cisterns already dug, vineyards, olive groves,
And fruit trees in abundance.
So they ate and were filled and grew fat,
And delighted themselves in Your great goodness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:28 - He dwells in desolate cities,
In houses which no one inhabits,
Which are destined to become ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6 - O enemy, destructions are finished forever!
And you have destroyed cities;
Even their memory has perished.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:20 - For they speak against You wickedly;
Your enemies take Your name in vain.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:22 - A wise man scales the city of the mighty,
And brings down the trusted stronghold.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - I will send him against an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:13 - For he says:

“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
And by my wisdom, for I am prudent;
Also I have removed the boundaries of the people,
And have robbed their treasuries;
So I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:17 - Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who did not open the house of his prisoners?'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 - For You have made a city a ruin,
A fortified city a ruin,
A palace of foreigners to be a city no more;
It will never be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:5 - For He brings down those who dwell on high,
The lofty city;
He lays it low,
He lays it low to the ground,
He brings it down to the dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 - And thorns shall come up in its palaces,
Nettles and brambles in its fortresses;
It shall be a habitation of jackals,
A courtyard for ostriches.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 - Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 - For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will inherit the nations,
And make the desolate cities inhabited.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 - And they shall rebuild the old ruins,
They shall raise up the former desolations,
And they shall 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,” says the LORD;
“They shall come and each one set his throne
At the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,
Against all its walls all around,
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, ‘Gather together,'
And say, ‘Assemble yourselves,
And let us go into the fortified cities.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 - “Make mention to the nations,
Yes, proclaim against Jerusalem,
That watchers come from a far country
And raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 - Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them,
A wolf of the deserts shall destroy them;
A leopard will watch over their cities.
Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces,
Because their transgressions are many;
Their backslidings have increased.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17 - And they shall eat up your harvest and your bread,
Which your sons and daughters should eat.
They shall eat up your flocks and your herds;
They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees;
They shall destroy your fortified cities,
In which you trust, with the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14 - “Why do we sit still?
Assemble yourselves,
And let us enter the fortified cities,
And let us be silent there.
For the LORD our God has put us to silence
And given us water of gall to drink,
Because we have sinned against the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - “I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of jackals.
I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - Behold, the noise of the report has come,
And a great commotion out of the north country,
To make the cities of Judah desolate, a den of jackals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:15 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all her towns all the doom that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks that they might not hear My words.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6 - For thus says the LORD to the house of the king of Judah:

“You are Gilead to Me,
The head of Lebanon;
Yet I surely will make you a wilderness,
Cities which are not inhabited.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:21 - “Set up signposts,
Make landmarks;
Set your heart toward the highway,
The way in which you went.
Turn back, O virgin of Israel,
Turn back 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, all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem and all its cities, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and Azekah; for only these fortified cities remained of the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:22 - ‘Behold, I will command,' says the LORD, ‘and cause them to return to this city. 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 have seen all the calamity that I have brought on Jerusalem and on all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 - You who dwell in Moab,
Leave the cities and dwell in the rock,
And be like the dove which makes her nest
In the sides of the cave's mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:7 - “I made you thrive like a plant in the field; and you grew, matured, and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed, your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7 - He knew their desolate places,[fn]
And laid waste their cities;
The land with its fullness was desolated
By the noise of his roaring.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - “For thus says the Lord GOD: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like cities that are not inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and 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 also enable you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:9 - “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - An area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide shall belong to the Levites, the ministers of the temple; they shall have twenty chambers as a possession.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:15 - “So the king of the North shall come and build a siege mound, and take a fortified city; and the forces[fn] of the South shall not withstand him. Even his choice troops shall have no strength to resist.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:14 - “For Israel has forgotten his Maker,
And has built temples;[fn]
Judah also has multiplied fortified cities;
But I will send fire upon his cities,
And it shall devour his palaces.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:14 - I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:20 - And the captives of this host of the children of Israel
Shall possess the land of the Canaanites
As far as Zarephath.
The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
Shall possess the cities of the South.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:11 - Pass by in naked shame, you inhabitant of Shaphir;
The inhabitant of Zaanan[fn] does not go out.
Beth Ezel mourns;
Its place to stand is taken away from you.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:11 - I will cut off the cities of your land
And throw down all your strongholds.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14 - I will pluck your wooden images[fn] from your midst;
Thus I will destroy your cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:16 - A day of trumpet and alarm
Against the fortified cities
And against the high towers.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:12 - Then the Angel of the LORD answered and said, “O LORD of hosts, how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You were angry these seventy years?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:20 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts:

‘Peoples shall yet come,
Inhabitants of many cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:21 - The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying,
“Let us continue to go and pray before the LORD,
And seek the LORD of hosts.
I myself will go also.”
N-NPF
Occurrences: 119 times in 109 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Nominative Plural Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - “blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - And they blessed Rebekah and said to her:

“Our sister, may you become
The mother of thousands of ten thousands;
And may your descendants possess
The gates of those who hate them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - ‘Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;
your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - “whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:28 - “Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - So Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding country.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:3 - “They shall have the cities to dwell in; and their common-land shall be for their cattle, for their herds, and for all their animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12 - ‘They shall be cities of refuge for you from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13 - ‘And of the cities which you give, you shall have six cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - ‘These six cities shall be for refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills a person accidentally may flee there.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 - ‘Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.” '
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5 - “All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:10 - “all the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:2 - “you shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:7 - “Therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall separate three cities for yourself.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - “and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:17 - Then the children of Israel journeyed and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kirjath Jearim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 - And the border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children 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 Ammonites as far as Aroer, which is before Rabbah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:28 - This is the inheritance of the children 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 towns of Jair which are in Bashan, sixty cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:4 - For the children of Joseph were two tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim. And they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their common-lands for their livestock and their property.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - “Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD said.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:21 - The cities at the limits of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the border of Edom in the South, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:25 - Hazor, Hadattah, Kerioth, Hezron (which is Hazor),
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:32 - Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:36 - Sharaim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim: fourteen cities with their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:41 - Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:44 - Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:51 - Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:54 - Humtah, Kirjath Arba (which 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 - Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon: six cities with their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:60 - Kirjath Baal (which is Kirjath Jearim) and Rabbah: two cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:62 - Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi: six cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9 - The separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:21 - Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, according to their families, were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:24 - Chephar Haammoni, Ophni, and Gaba: twelve cities with their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - Zelah, Eleph, Jebus (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kirjath: fourteen cities with their villages. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:6 - Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteen cities and their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:7 - Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan: four cities and their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:16 - This was the inheritance of the children 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 children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:35 - And the fortified cities are Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:41 - And the territory of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:48 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3 - ‘that the slayer who kills a person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there; and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel and for the stranger who dwelt among them, that whoever killed a person accidentally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood before the congregation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:4 - Now the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. And the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had thirteen cities by lot from the tribe of Judah, from the tribe of Simeon, and from the tribe of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5 - The rest of the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:6 - And the children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:7 - The children of Merari according to their families had twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:19 - All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their common-lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:26 - All the ten cities with their common-lands were for the rest of the families of the children of Kohath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:33 - All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their common-lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:39 - Heshbon with its common-land, and Jazer with its common-land: four cities in all.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:40 - So all the cities for the children of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 - All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their common-lands.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:14 - Then the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath; and Israel recovered its territory from the hands of the Philistines. Also there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13 - Ben-Geber,[fn] in Ramoth Gilead; to him belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, in Gilead; to him also belonged the region of Argob in Bashan—sixty large cities with walls and bronze gate-bars;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - (Hiram the king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress and gold, as much as he desired), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:13 - So he said, “What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” And he called them the land of Cabul,[fn] as they are to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:39 - Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, the ivory house which he built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master's sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and weapons,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:22 - Segub begot Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:31 - Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:32 - And 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 common-lands, Alemeth[fn] with its common-lands, and Anathoth with its common-lands. All their cities among their families were thirteen.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61 - To the rest of the family of the tribe of the Kohathites they gave by lot ten cities from half the tribe of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:62 - And to the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, they gave thirteen cities from the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:63 - To the sons of Merari, throughout their families, they gave twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:66 - Now some of the families of the sons of Kohath were given cities as their territory from the tribe of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:6 - And he built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest; he had no war in 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 country is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire;
Strangers devour your land in your presence;
And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered:

“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant,
The houses are without a man,
The land is utterly desolate,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:31 - Wail, O gate! Cry, O city!
All you of Philistia are dissolved;
For smoke will come from the north,
And no one will be alone in his appointed times.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 - In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken bough[fn]
And an uppermost branch,[fn]
Which they left because of the children of Israel;
And there will be desolation.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18 - In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear by the LORD of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 - In the city desolation is left,
And the gate is stricken with destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:3 - Therefore the strong people will glorify You;
The city of the terrible nations will fear You.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:1 - “Thus says the LORD to His anointed,
To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held—
To subdue nations before him
And loose the armor of kings,
To open before him the double doors,
So that the gates will not be shut:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The young lions roared at him, and growled;
They made his land waste;
His cities are burned, without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - The lion has come up from his thicket,
And the destroyer of nations is on his way.
He has gone forth from his place
To make your land desolate.
Your cities will be laid waste,
Without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 - I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wilderness,
And all its cities were broken down
At the presence of the LORD,
By His fierce anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:12 - “Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:19 - The cities of the South shall be shut up,
And no one shall open them;
Judah shall be carried away captive, all of it;
It shall be wholly carried away captive.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 - And let that man be like the cities
Which the LORD overthrew, and did not relent;
Let him hear the cry in the morning
And the shouting at noon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and Azekah; for only these fortified cities remained of the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9 - “Give wings to Moab,
That she may flee and get away;
For her cities shall be desolate,
Without any to dwell in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:24 - On Kerioth and Bozrah,
On all the cities of the land of Moab,
Far or near.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:34 - “From the cry of Heshbon to Elealeh and to Jahaz
They have uttered their voice,
From Zoar to Horonaim,
Like a three-year-old heifer;[fn]
For the waters of Nimrim also shall be desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - “For I have sworn by Myself,” says the LORD, “that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Her cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where no one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - “In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, your idols may be broken and made to cease, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:20 - “Then the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall become desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.” ' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - “I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and among the cities that are laid waste, her cities shall be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 - “They shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries,
And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9 - “I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - “I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - “So they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38 - “Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.” ' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:8 - So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water,
But they were not satisfied;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12 - In that day they[fn] shall come to you
From Assyria and the fortified cities,[fn]
From the fortress[fn] to the River,[fn]
From sea to sea,
And mountain to mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:6 - “I have cut off nations,
Their fortresses are devastated;
I have made their streets desolate,
With none passing by.
Their cities are destroyed;
There is no one, no inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:17 - “Again proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts:

“My cities shall again spread out through prosperity;
The LORD will again comfort Zion,
And will again choose Jerusalem.” ' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:7 - Should you not have obeyed the words which the LORD proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and the South[fn] and the Lowland were inhabited?' ”
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Occurrences: 1 time in 1 verse
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Vocative Singular Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:16 - “Take a harp, go about the city,
You forgotten harlot;
Make sweet melody, sing many songs,
That you may be remembered.”
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