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πόλεις — 283x G4172 πόλις
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N-APF
Occurrences: 163 times in 150 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Accusative Plural Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - and He overthrew those cities, and all the [fn]valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 -

Thus it happened, when God destroyed the cities of the [fn]valley, that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 -

Then they journeyed on, and there was [fn]a terror from God upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with [fn]hard labors. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25 - ‘I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you so that you shall be given over into enemy hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - ‘And I will give your cities over as a waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - So Israel made a vow to Yahweh and said, “If You will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3 - Then Yahweh heard the voice of Israel and gave the Canaanites over; so they devoted them and their cities to destruction. Thus the name of the place was called [fn]Hormah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:25 - And Israel took all these cities, and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her [fn]towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:39 - And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:10 - Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:16 -

Then they came near to him and said, “We will build here sheepfolds for our livestock and cities for our little ones;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:24 - “Build yourselves cities for your little ones and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do [fn]what you have promised.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 -

So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Joseph's son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities with their [fn]territories, the cities of the surrounding land.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:36 - and Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to live in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “And the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - “All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, [fn]together with their pasture lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - “Now as for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the sons of Israel, you shall take more from the larger, and you shall take less from the smaller; each shall give some of his cities to the Levites in proportion to his possession which he inherits.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - then you shall select for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, that the manslayer who has struck down any person unintentionally may flee there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13 - ‘And the cities which you are to give shall be your six cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - ‘You shall give three cities across the Jordan and three cities [fn]in the land of Canaan; they are to be cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:22 -

“Then all of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may search out the land for us and bring back to us word of the way by which we should go up and the cities which we shall enter.'

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - “Only you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the [fn]river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God had commanded us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4 - “And we captured all his cities at that time; there was not a town which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:12 -

“So we took possession of this land at that time. From Aroer, which is by the [fn]valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 -

Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east toward the sunrise,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 -

“Then it will be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and good cities which you did not build,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 -

“Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities [fn]fortified to heaven,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15 - “Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations [fn]nearby.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:17 - Then the sons of Israel set out and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:19 - but as for you, do not stand there; pursue your enemies and [fn]attack them in the rear. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for Yahweh your God has given them into your hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - Now it happened when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a very great slaughter until they were completely destroyed, and the survivorsthose of them who survived[fn]had entered the fortified cities,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:12 - And Joshua captured all the cities of these kings and all their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and he devoted them to destruction, just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:13 - However, Israel did not burn any cities that stood on their mounds, except Hazor alone, which Joshua burned.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:17 - Heshbon, and all its cities which are on the plain: Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - even all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the 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 - also half of Gilead, with Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir according to their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:12 - But the sons of Manasseh could not take possession of these cities because the Canaanites persisted in living in that land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:9 - So the men went and passed through the land and wrote a description of it by cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘[fn]Designate the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:2 - And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “Yahweh commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasture lands for our cattle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:3 - So the sons of Israel gave the Levites from their inheritance these cities with their pasture lands, according to the [fn]command of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:8 -

So the sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:9 -

They also gave from the tribe of the sons of Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon these cities which are here mentioned by name;

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:16 - and [fn]Ain with its pasture lands, and Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands; nine cities from these two tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:18 - Anathoth with its pasture lands and [fn]Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:22 - and Kibzaim with its pasture lands, and Beth-horon with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:24 - Aijalon with its pasture lands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:25 - From the half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27 -

Now to the sons of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, from the half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands; two cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:29 - Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En-gannim with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:31 - Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:32 - From the tribe of Naphtali, they gave Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands and Kartan with its pasture lands; three cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:35 - Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:37 - Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:13 - ‘And I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities which you had not built, and you have lived in them; you are eating of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:20 - Then they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had [fn]promised; and he dispossessed from there the three sons of Anak.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11 -

“At the sound of those who divide flocks among the watering places,

There they shall [fn]commemorate the righteous deeds of Yahweh,

The righteous deeds for His [fn]peasantry in Israel.

Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:4 - And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities [fn]in the land of Gilead that are called [fn]Havvoth-jair to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And he struck them with a very great slaughter from Aroer [fn]to the entrance of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim. So the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - Now the men of Israel returned to the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city with the cattle and all that they found; they also set on fire all the cities which they found.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:23 - And the sons of Benjamin did so and carried away wives according to their number from those who danced, whom they stole away. And they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the cities and lived in them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:9 - And Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! For if I should indeed come to know that evil has been decided by my father to come upon you, then would I not tell you about it?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:7 -

Then the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, with those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead. So they forsook the 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 find for himself fortified cities and deliver himself from our sight.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7 - and came to the fortified city of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they were not right in his eyes.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 -

Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon raised up to build the house of Yahweh, his own house, the [fn]Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - And Ben-hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will return, and you shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.” Ahab said, “And I will let you go with this covenant.” So he cut a covenant with him and let him go.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:25 - Thus they [fn]tore down the cities; and each one threw a stone on every piece of good land and filled it. And they stopped all the springs of water and felled all the good trees, until in Kir-hareseth they let its stones remain; however, the slingers went about it and struck it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25 - Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken in war from the hand of Jehoahaz his father. Three times Joash struck him and recovered the cities of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13 -

Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 -

‘Have you not heard?

Long ago I did it;

From days of old I formed it.

Now I have brought it to pass,

That you should devastate fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:23 -

But Geshur and Aram took [fn]Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:57 - To the sons of Aaron they gave the following cities of refuge:

Hebron, Libnah also with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:64 -

So the sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:65 - They also gave by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned here by name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:67 - And they gave to them the following cities of refuge:

Shechem, with its pasture lands, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasture lands,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:7 -

Then all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they had fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead. So they forsook their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:2 - that he built the cities which Huram had given to [fn]him, and settled the sons of Israel there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:4 - And he built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities which he had built in Hamath.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5 - He also built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates and bars;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:6 - and Baalath and all the storage cities which Solomon had, and all the cities for [fn]his chariots, and the cities for [fn]his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land [fn]under his rule.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:5 -

Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and built cities for fortifications in Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:10 - Zorah, Aijalon and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:19 - And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured from him several cities, Bethel with its towns, Jeshanah with its towns, and [fn]Ephron with its towns.
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 [fn]ours because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and succeeded.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:14 - And they struck down all the cities around Gerar, for the dread of Yahweh had fallen on them; and they plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:4 - So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his military forces against the cities of Israel, and they struck down Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the [fn]store cities of Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:12 - So Jehoshaphat grew greater and greater, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:5 - And he gathered the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and gather money from all Israel to [fn]repair the house of your God [fn]annually, and you shall do the matter quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:13 - But the [fn]troops whom Amaziah sent back from going with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 of them and plundered much plunder.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:6 -

Then he went out and fought against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the area of Ashdod and among the Philistines.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:4 - Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built fortresses and towers on the wooded hills.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:18 - And the Philistines also had raided the cities of the [fn]Shephelah and of the [fn]Negev of Judah, and had captured Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, and Soco with its towns, Timnah with its towns, and Gimzo with its towns, and they settled there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 -

Now when all this was completed, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, shattered the pillars, cut the [fn]Asherim in pieces, and tore down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until the destruction was completed. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:1 -

After these [fn]acts of faithfulness Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, and [fn]thought to break into them for himself.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:28 - storehouses also for the produce of grain, wine, and oil, stalls for all kinds of cattle, and [fn]sheepfolds for the flocks.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:29 - He also made cities for himself and acquired flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him exceedingly abundant [fn]wealth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25 -

“They captured fortified cities and a [fn]rich [fn]land.

They took possession of houses full of every good thing,

Hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive groves,

Trees for food in abundance.

So they ate, were filled, and grew fat,

And reveled in Your great goodness.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:28 -

“He has dwelt in desolate cities,

In houses no one would inhabit,

Which are destined to become [fn]ruins.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6 -

He

[fn]The enemy has come to an end in perpetual [fn]ruins,

And You have uprooted the cities;

The very memory of them has perished.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:20 -

For they speak [fn]against You wickedly,

And Your enemies [fn]take Your name in vain.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:22 -

A wise man goes up to the city of the mighty

And brings down the [fn]stronghold in which they trust.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 -

I send it against a godless nation

And command it against the people of My fury

To capture spoil and to seize plunder,

And to [fn]trample them down like mud in the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:13 - For he has said,

“By the power of my hand and by my wisdom I did this,

For I have understanding;

And I removed the boundaries of the peoples

And plundered their treasures,

And like a mighty man I brought down [fn]their inhabitants,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:17 -

Who made the world like a wilderness

And pulled down its cities,

Who did not [fn]allow his prisoners to go home?'

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 -

For You have made a city into a heap,

A fortified town into a ruin;

A palace of strangers is a city no more,

It will never be rebuilt.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:5 -

“For He has laid low those who settle on high, the [fn]exalted city;

He brings it low, He brings it low to the ground, He casts it to the dust.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 -

And thorns will come up in its fortified towers,

Weeds and thistles in its fortified cities;

It will also be a haunt of jackals

And an abode of ostriches.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 -

Now it happened in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 -

“For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left.

And your seed will possess nations

And will resettle the desolate cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 -

Then they will rebuild the ancient waste places;

They will raise up the former desolations;

And they will make new the ruined cities,

The desolations from generation to generation.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:15 - “For, behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” declares Yahweh; “and they will come, and each one of them will put his throne at the opening of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls round about and against all the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:5 -

Declare in Judah and make it heard in Jerusalem and say,

“Blow the trumpet in the land;

Call out, make your voice full, and say,

‘Gather yourselves, and let us go

Into the fortified cities.'

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 -

“Make mention of it to the nations, saying, ‘Behold!'

Make it heard over Jerusalem,

‘Besiegers come from a far country,

And give forth their voices against the cities of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 -

Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down;

A wolf of the deserts will devastate them;

A leopard is watching their cities.

Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces

Because their transgressions are many;

Their acts of faithlessness are mighty.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17 -

“They will devour your harvest and your food;

They will devour your sons and your daughters;

They will devour your flocks and your herds;

They will devour your vines and your fig trees;

They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14 -

Why are we sitting still?

Gather yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities

And let us be silent there

Because Yahweh our God has silenced us

And given us [fn]poisoned water to drink,

For we have sinned against Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 -

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,

A haunt of jackals;

And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 -

The sound of a report! Behold, it comes

A great quaking out of the land of the north

To make the cities of Judah

A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:15 - “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have spoken against it because they have stiffened their necks so as not to hear My words.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6 - For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah:

“You are like Gilead to Me,

Like the summit of Lebanon;

Yet most assuredly I will make you like a wilderness,

Like cities which are not inhabited.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a waste place, an object of horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:21 -

“Set up roadmarks for yourself,

Place for yourself guideposts;

Set your heart to the highway,

The way by which you went.

Return, O virgin of Israel,

Return to these your cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:1 -

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his military force, with all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his [fn]dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the military force of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:22 - ‘Behold, I am going to command,' declares Yahweh, ‘and I will cause them to return to this city; and they will fight against it and capture 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 Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘You yourselves have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a waste place and no one lives in them
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 -

“Leave the cities and dwell among the crags,

O inhabitants of Moab,

And be like a dove that nests

Beyond the mouth of the chasm.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:7 - “I made you [fn]numerous like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall, and came into the age for fine ornaments; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7 -

‘He [fn]knew how to destroy their [fn]fortified towers

And laid waste their cities;

And the land was in desolation, as well as its fullness

Because of the sound of his roaring.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 -

For thus says Lord Yahweh, “When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 -

‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:9 -

“Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will go out and make fires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and large shields, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears; and for seven years they will make fires of them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - And an area 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession as [fn]cities to dwell in.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:15 - “Then the king of the North will come, cast up a siege ramp, and capture a well-fortified city; and the might of the South will not stand, not even [fn]their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:14 -

So Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;

And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,

But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:14 -

“Also I will restore the [fn]captivity of My people Israel,

And they will rebuild the desolated cities and live in them;

They will also plant vineyards and drink their wine

And make gardens and eat their fruit.

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:20 -

And the exiles of this [fn]military force of the sons of Israel,

Who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,

And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad,

Will possess the cities of the Negev.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:11 -

[fn]Pass on by, inhabitant of [fn]Shaphir, in shameful nakedness.

The inhabitant of [fn]Zaanan does not go out.

The lamentation of [fn]Beth-ezel: “He will take from you its [fn]support.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:11 -

“And I will cut off the cities of your land

And pull down all your fortifications.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14 -

“And I will uproot your [fn]Asherim from among you

And [fn]eradicate your cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:16 -

A day of trumpet and loud shouting

Against the fortified cities

And the high corner towers.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:12 -

Then the angel of Yahweh answered and said, “O Yahweh of hosts, how long will You have no compassion for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been indignant these seventy years?”

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:20 -

“Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘It will yet be that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:21 - ‘The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, “Let us go at once to [fn]entreat the favor of Yahweh and to seek Yahweh of hosts; [fn]I will also go.”
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Occurrences: 119 times in 109 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Nominative Plural Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,

“May you, our sister,

Become thousands of ten thousands,

And may your seed possess

The gate of those who hate him.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - ‘As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - ‘You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - “And how is the land in which they live, is it good or bad? And how are the cities in which they live, are they [fn]like open camps or with fortifications?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:28 - “Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw the [fn]descendants of Anak there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 -

So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Joseph's son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities with their [fn]territories, the cities of the surrounding land.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:3 - “And the cities shall be theirs to live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their herds and for all their beasts.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12 - ‘And the cities shall be for you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13 - ‘And the cities which you are to give shall be your six cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - ‘These six cities shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel and for the sojourner and for the foreign resident among them; that anyone who strikes a person down unintentionally may flee there.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 - ‘Where can we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified to heaven. And moreover, we saw the sons of the Anakim there.”'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5 - “All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many [fn]unwalled towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:10 - all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:2 - you shall set apart three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to [fn]possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:7 - “Therefore, I am commanding you, saying, ‘You shall set apart three cities for yourself.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - if you [fn]be careful to do all this commandment which I am commanding you today, to love Yahweh your God and to walk in His ways all your days—then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:17 - Then the sons of Israel set out and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 - And the border of the sons of Reuben was the [fn]Jordan. This was the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:25 - And their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer which is before Rabbah;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:28 - This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:30 - And their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all of [fn]Havvoth-jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:4 - For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - “So now, give me this hill country about which Yahweh spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps Yahweh will be with me, and I will dispossess them as Yahweh has spoken.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:21 -

Now the cities at the far end of the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the border of Edom in the south were Kabzeel and Eder and Jagur,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:25 - and Hazor-hadattah and Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor),
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:32 - and Lebaoth and Shilhim and Ain and Rimmon; in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:36 - and Shaaraim and Adithaim and Gederah and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:41 - and Gederoth, Beth-dagon and Naamah and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:44 - and Keilah and Achzib and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:51 - and Goshen and Holon and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:54 - and Humtah and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) and Zior; nine cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:57 - Kain, Gibeah and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:59 - and Maarath and Beth-anoth and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:60 -

Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim) and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:62 - and Nibshan and the City of Salt and Engedi; six cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9 - together with the cities which were set apart for the sons of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:21 -

Now the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-keziz,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:24 - and Chephar-ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - and Zelah, Haeleph and the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:6 - and Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:7 - Ain, Rimmon and Ether and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:16 - This was the inheritance of the sons of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:23 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:35 - Now the fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer and Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:41 - And the territory of their inheritance was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:48 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3 - that the manslayer who strikes down any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become for you as a refuge from the avenger of blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourns among them, that whoever strikes down any person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the congregation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:4 - Then the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. And the sons of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, [fn]received thirteen cities by lot from the tribe of Judah and from the tribe of the Simeonites and from the tribe of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5 -

Now the rest of the sons of Kohath [fn]received ten cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Ephraim and from the tribe of Dan and from the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:6 -

And the sons of Gershon [fn]received thirteen cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:7 -

The sons of Merari according to their families [fn]received twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:19 - All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:26 - All the cities with their pasture lands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:33 - All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:39 - Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities in all.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:40 - All these were the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 -

All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:14 - And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. So there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13 -

Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (now [fn]Havvoth-JairJair being the son of Manasseh—which is in Gilead was his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:13 - And he said, “What are these cities which you have given me, my brother?” So [fn]they were called the land of [fn]Cabul to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:39 - Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did and the ivory house which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - “So now, when this letter comes to you, [fn]since your master's sons are with you, [fn]as well as the chariots and horses and a fortified city and the weapons,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:22 -

Segub became the father of Jair, and he had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:31 - Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:32 - Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:60 -

from the tribe of Benjamin:

Geba with its pasture lands, [fn]Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands.

All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61 -

Now to the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, from the family of the tribe, from the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:62 -

And to the sons of Gershom, according to their families, were given from the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher, the tribe of Naphtali, and the tribe of Manasseh, thirteen cities in Bashan.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:63 -

To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:66 -

Now some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:6 - And he built fortified cities in Judah, since the land was quiet, and [fn]there was no one at war with him during those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:35 -

For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah,

That they may dwell there and possess it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 -

Your land is desolate;

Your cities are burned with fire;

Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence;

It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 -

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He said,

“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,

Houses are without people,

And the land is devastated to desolation,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:31 -

“Wail, O gate; cry, O city;

[fn]Melt away, O Philistia, all of you;

For smoke comes from the north,

And there is no straggler in his ranks.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 -

In that day [fn]their strong cities will be like [fn]forsaken places in the forest,

Or like [fn]branches which they forsook before the sons of Israel;

And [fn]the land will be a desolation.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18 -

In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and swearing allegiance to Yahweh of hosts; one will be called the City of [fn]Destruction.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 -

Desolation remains in the city,

And the gate is struck down to ruins.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:3 -

Therefore a strong people will glorify You;

Towns of ruthless nations will fear You.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:1 -

Thus says Yahweh to Cyrus His anointed,

Whom I have taken hold of by his right hand,

To subdue nations before him

And [fn]to loose the loins of kings,

To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 -

“The young lions have roared at him;

They have given forth their voice.

And they have made his land a desolation;

His cities have been turned into ruin, without inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 -

“A lion has gone up from his thicket,

And a destroyer of nations has set out;

He has gone out from his place

To make your land a desolation.

Your cities will be turned into ruins

Without inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 -

I saw, and behold, [fn]the fruitful orchard was a wilderness,

And all its cities were torn down

Before Yahweh, before His burning anger.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:12 - “Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surely will not save them in the time of their calamity.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:19 -

The cities of the Negev have been closed up,

And there is no one to open them;

All Judah has been taken away into exile,

Wholly taken away into exile.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 -

But let that man be like the cities

Which Yahweh overthrew without [fn]relenting,

And let him hear an outcry in the morning

And a [fn]shout of war at noon,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the military force of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9 -

“Give [fn]wings to Moab,

For she will [fn]flee away;

And her cities will become a desolation,

Without inhabitants in them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:24 - and against Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:34 -

“From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have given forth their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - “For I have sworn by Myself,” declares Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproach, a ruin, and an imprecation; and all its cities will become perpetual [fn]ruins.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 -

“Her cities have become an object of horror,

A parched land, and a desert,

A land in which no man lives

And through which no son of man passes.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - “In all your places of habitation, cities will become waste, and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and [fn]desolate, your idols may be broken and cease, your incense altars may be cut in pieces, and your works may be blotted out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:20 - “The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am Yahweh.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - “So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 -

“They will be desolate

In the midst of the desolated lands;

And her cities will be

In the midst of the cities laid waste.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9 - “I will make you an everlasting desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - ‘I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - “And they will say, ‘This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate, and [fn]ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38 - “Like the flock for holy offerings, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed times, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:8 -

“So two or three cities would wander around to another city to drink water,

But would not be satisfied;

Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12 -

It will be a day when [fn]they will come to you

From Assyria and the cities of Egypt,

From Egypt even to the [fn]River,

Even from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:6 -

“I have cut off nations;

Their corner towers are desolate.

I have made their streets a waste,

With no one passing by;

Their cities are laid waste,

Without a man, without an inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:17 - “Again, call out, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “My cities will again overflow with good, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:7 - ‘Are not these the words which Yahweh called out by the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and at ease along with its cities around it, and the [fn]Negev and the [fn]Shephelah were inhabited?'”
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Occurrences: 1 time in 1 verse
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Vocative Singular Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:16 -

Take your harp, walk about the city,

O forgotten harlot;

Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs,

That you may be remembered.

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