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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 valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 - And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25 - And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather 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 - And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD and said, “If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3 - And the LORD heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called Hormah.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:25 - And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:39 - Then Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:10 - All their cities in the places where they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire,
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 you have promised.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-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 and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:36 - Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “The cities that you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight, with their pasturelands.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - And as for the cities that you shall give from the possession of the people of Israel, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance that it inherits, shall give of its cities to the Levites.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13 - And the cities that you give shall be your six cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:22 - Then all of you came near me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever 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 that we did not take from them—sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:12 - “When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 - Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 - “And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - “Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15 - Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:17 - And the people of Israel set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:19 - but do not stay there yourselves. Pursue your enemies; attack their rear guard. Do not let them enter their cities, for the LORD your God has given them into your hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - When Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow until they were wiped out, and when the remnant that remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:12 - And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:13 - But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor alone; that 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 boundary of the Ammonites;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:17 - with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - that is, all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the leaders 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 - and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of Machir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:12 - Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:9 - So the men went and passed up and down in the land and wrote in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions. Then they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:2 - “Say to the people of Israel, ‘Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:2 - And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasturelands for our livestock.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:3 - So by command of the LORD the people of Israel gave to the Levites the following cities and pasturelands out of their inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:8 - These cities and their pasturelands the people of Israel gave by lot to the Levites, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:9 - Out of the tribe of the people of Judah and the tribe of the people of Simeon they gave the following cities mentioned by name,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:16 - Ain with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands—nine cities out of these two tribes;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:18 - Anathoth with its pasturelands, and Almon with its pasturelands—four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:22 - Kibzaim with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands—four cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:24 - Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands—four cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:25 - and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasturelands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands—two cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27 - And to the Gershonites, one of the clans of the Levites, were given out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beeshterah with its pasturelands—two cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:29 - Jarmuth with its pasturelands, En-gannim with its pasturelands—four cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:31 - Helkath with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands—four cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:32 - and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands, and Kartan with its pasturelands—three cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:35 - Dimnah with its pasturelands, Nahalal with its pasturelands—four cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:37 - Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:13 - I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:20 - And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said. And he drove out from it the three sons of Anak.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11 - To the sound of musicians[fn] at the watering places,
there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the LORD,
the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel.
“Then down to the gates marched the people of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:4 - And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - And the men of Israel turned back against the people of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, the city, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns that they found they set on fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:23 - And the people of Benjamin did so and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off. Then they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and lived in them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:9 - And Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! If I knew that it was determined by my father that harm should come to you, 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 beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. And 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, lest he get himself to fortified cities and escape from us.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7 - and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 - And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the LORD and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - And Ben-hadad said to him, “The cities that my father took from your father I will restore, and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” And Ahab said, “I will let you go on these terms.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:25 - And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone until it was covered. They stopped every spring of water and felled all the good trees, till only its stones were left in Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and attacked it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25 - Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13 - 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 - “Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should turn fortified cities
into heaps of ruins,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:23 - But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-jair, Kenath, and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:57 - To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:64 - So the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:65 - They gave by lot out of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin these cities that are mentioned by name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:67 - They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:7 - And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the army[fn] had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled, and the Philistines came and lived in them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:2 - Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:4 - He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the store cities that he 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 store cities that Solomon had and all the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:5 - Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built cities for defense in Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:10 - Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, fortified cities that are in Judah and in Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:19 - And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron[fn] with its villages.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - And he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side.” So they built and prospered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:14 - And they attacked all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of the LORD was upon them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:4 - And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:12 - And Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater. He built in Judah fortresses and store cities,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:5 - And 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 act quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:13 - But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:6 - He went out and made war against the Philistines and broke through the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:4 - Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:18 - And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, 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 and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:1 - After these things and these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:28 - storehouses also for the yield of grain, wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of cattle, and sheepfolds.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:29 - He likewise provided cities for himself, and flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great possessions.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25 - And they captured fortified cities and a rich land, and took possession of houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:28 - and has lived in desolate cities,
in houses that none should inhabit,
which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6 - The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:20 - They speak against you with malicious intent;
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 stronghold in which they trust.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - Against a godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
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 have understanding;
I remove the boundaries of peoples,
and plunder their treasures;
like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:17 - who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
who did not let his prisoners go home?'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 - For you have made the city a heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the foreigners' palace is a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:5 - For he has humbled
the inhabitants of the height,
the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
casts it to the dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 - Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of jackals,
an abode for ostriches.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 - 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 BoxIsa 54:3 - For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left,
and your offspring will possess the nations
and will people the desolate cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 - They shall build up the ancient ruins;
they shall raise up the former devastations;
they shall repair the ruined cities,
the devastations of many generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:15 - For behold, I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, declares the LORD, and they shall come, and every one shall 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 through the land;
cry aloud and say,
‘Assemble, and let us go
into the fortified cities!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 - Warn the nations that he is coming;
announce to Jerusalem,
“Besiegers come from a distant land;
they shout against the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 - Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down;
a wolf from the desert shall devastate them.
A leopard is watching their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
their apostasies are great.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17 - They shall eat up your harvest and your food;
they shall eat up your sons and your daughters;
they shall eat up your flocks and your herds;
they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees;
your fortified cities in which you trust
they shall beat down with the sword.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14 - Why do we sit still?
Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities
and perish there,
for the LORD our God has doomed us to perish
and has given us poisoned water to drink,
because we have sinned against the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
a lair of jackals,
and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!—
a great commotion out of the north country
to make the cities of Judah a desolation,
a lair of jackals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:15 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear 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 surely I will make you a desert,
an uninhabited city.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:21 - “Set up road markers for yourself;
make yourself guideposts;
consider well the highway,
the road by which you went.
Return, O virgin Israel,
return to these your cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, Lachish and Azekah, for these were the only fortified cities of Judah that remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:22 - Behold, I will command, declares the LORD, and will bring them back to this city. And they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. 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 disaster that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 - “Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,
O inhabitants of Moab!
Be like the dove that nests
in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:7 - I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7 - and seized[fn] their widows.
He laid waste their cities,
and the land was appalled and all who were in it
at the sound of his roaring.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - “For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that 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 shall be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:9 - “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs[fn] and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - Another section, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:15 - Then the king of the north shall come and throw up siegeworks and take a well-fortified city. And the forces of the south shall not stand, or even his best troops, for there shall be no strength to stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:14 - For Israel has forgotten his Maker
and built palaces,
and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
so I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour her strongholds.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:14 - I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:20 - The exiles of this host of the people of Israel
shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:11 - Pass on your way,
inhabitants of Shaphir,
in nakedness and shame;
the inhabitants of Zaanan
do not come out;
the lamentation of Beth-ezel
shall take away from you its standing place.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:11 - and I will cut off the cities of your land
and throw down all your strongholds;
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14 - and I will root out your Asherah images from among you
and destroy your cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:16 - a day of trumpet blast and battle cry
against the fortified cities
and against the lofty battlements.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:12 - Then the angel of the LORD said, ‘O LORD of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?'
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:20 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:21 - The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD and to seek the LORD of hosts; I myself am going.'
N-NPF
Occurrences: 119 times in 109 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Nominative Plural Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his[fn] enemies,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,
“Our sister, may you become
thousands of ten thousands,
and may your offspring possess
the gate of those who hate him!”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:28 - However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-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 and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:3 - The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasturelands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their beasts.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12 - The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13 - And the cities that you give shall be your six cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without intent may flee there.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 - Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5 - All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:10 - all the cities of the tableland 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 apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:7 - Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways—then you shall add three other cities to these three,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:17 - And the people of Israel set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 - And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:25 - Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of Rabbah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:28 - This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:30 - Their region extended from Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole 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 people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:21 - The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme south, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:25 - Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor),
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:32 - Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:36 - Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, 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, 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 - Maarath, 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 - Nibshan, the City of Salt, and Engedi: six cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9 - together with the towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:21 - Now the cities of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to their clans were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:24 - Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, Geba—twelve cities with their villages:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - Zela, Haeleph, Jebus[fn] (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah[fn] and Kiriath-jearim[fn]—fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin according to its clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:6 - Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen cities with their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:7 - Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four cities with their villages,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:16 - This is the inheritance of the people of Zebulun, according to their clans—these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:23 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Issachar, according to their clans—the cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans—these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:35 - The fortified cities are Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:41 - And the territory of its inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:48 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Dan, according to their clans—these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3 - that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and for the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:4 - The lot came out for the clans of the Kohathites. So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, thirteen cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5 - And the rest of the Kohathites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:6 - The Gershonites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:7 - The Merarites according to their clans received from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:19 - The cities of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:26 - The cities of the clans of the rest of the Kohathites were ten in all with their pasturelands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:33 - The cities of the several clans of the Gershonites were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:39 - Heshbon with its pasturelands, Jazer with its pasturelands—four cities in all.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:40 - As for the cities of the several Merarite clans, that is, the remainder of the clans of the Levites, those allotted to them were in all twelve cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 - The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasturelands.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:14 - The cities that the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath, and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. There was peace also between Israel and the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13 - Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:13 - Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of 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 that 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 then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:22 - And Segub fathered 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 David reigned.
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, Gibeon,[fn] Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their clans were thirteen.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61 - To the rest of the Kohathites were given by lot out of the clan of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:62 - To the Gershomites according to their clans were allotted thirteen cities out of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and Manasseh in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:63 - To the Merarites according to their clans were allotted twelve cities out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:66 - And some of the clans of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:6 - He built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest. He had no war in those years, for the LORD gave him peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:35 - For God will save Zion
and build up the cities of Judah,
and people shall dwell there and possess it;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then I said, “How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:31 - Wail, O gate; cry out, O city;
melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you!
For smoke comes out of the north,
and there is no straggler in his ranks.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 - In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18 - In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of hosts. One of these will be called the City of Destruction.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 - Desolation is left in the city;
the gates are battered into ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:3 - Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;
cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:1 - Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus,
whose right hand I have grasped,
to subdue nations before him
and to loose the belts of kings,
to open doors before him
that gates may not be closed:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The lions have roared against him;
they have roared loudly.
They have made his land a waste;
his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - A lion has gone up from his thicket,
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, the fruitful land was a desert,
and all its cities were laid in ruins
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 make offerings, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:19 - The cities of the Negeb are shut up,
with none to open them;
all Judah is taken into exile,
wholly taken into exile.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 - Let that man be like the cities
that the LORD overthrew without pity;
let him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, Lachish and Azekah, for these were the only fortified cities of Judah that remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9 - “Give wings to Moab,
for she would fly away;
her cities shall become a desolation,
with no inhabitant in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:24 - and Kerioth, and 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, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - For I have sworn by myself, declares the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Her cities have become a horror,
a land of drought and a desert,
a land in which no one dwells,
and through which no son of man passes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - Wherever you dwell, the cities shall be waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined,[fn] your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:20 - And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 - And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries,
and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9 - I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - And I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38 - Like the flock for sacrifices,[fn] like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:8 - so two or three cities would wander to another city
to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
yet you did not return to me,”
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12 - In that day they[fn] will come to you,
from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
and from Egypt to the River,[fn]
from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:6 - “I have cut off nations;
their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets
so that no one walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
without a man, without an inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:17 - Cry out again, Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:7 - Were not these the words that the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, with her cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'”
N-VSF
Occurrences: 1 time in 1 verse
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Vocative Singular Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:16 - “Take a harp;
go about the city,
O forgotten prostitute!
Make sweet melody;
sing many songs,
that you may be remembered.”
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