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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 surrounding area, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 -

So it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the surrounding area, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - So they appointed taskmasters over them to oppress them with [fn]hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25 - ‘I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send a plague among you, so that you will be handed over to the enemy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - ‘I will turn your cities into ruins as well and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - So Israel made a vow to the LORD and said, “If You will indeed hand over this people to me, then I will [fn]utterly destroy their cities.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3 - The LORD heard the voice of Israel and turned over the Canaanites; then they [fn]utterly destroyed them and their cities. And the place was named [fn]Hormah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:25 - Israel took all these cities, and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all her [fn]villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:39 - And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:10 - Then they [fn]burned all their cities where they lived and all their encampments.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:16 -

Then they approached him and said, “We will build sheepfolds for our livestock here 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, 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 - Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to live in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “The cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall provide for the one who commits manslaughter to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - “The total number of the cities which you are to give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, [fn]together with their pasture lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - “As for the cities which you shall give them from the possession of the sons of Israel, you shall take more from the larger, and you shall take fewer from the smaller; each shall give some of his cities to the Levites in proportion to his inheritance which he possesses.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - then you shall select for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, so that the one who commits manslaughter by [fn]killing a person unintentionally may flee there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13 - ‘So the cities which you are to provide shall be six cities of refuge for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - ‘You shall provide three cities across the Jordan, and three cities [fn]in the land of Canaan; they are to be cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:22 -

“Then all of you approached me and said, ‘Let us send men ahead of us, so that they may spy 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 should enter.'

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

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

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 -

Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the [fn]east,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 -

“Then it shall come about when the LORD your God brings you into the land that He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15 - “This is what 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 one who was killed.
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, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:19 - but do not stay there yourselves; pursue your enemies and [fn]attack them from behind. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for the LORD your God has handed them over to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - It came about when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them down in a very great defeat, until they were destroyed, and the survivors of them who escaped [fn]had entered the fortified cities,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:12 - Joshua captured all the cities of these kings, and all their kings; and he struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed them, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:13 - However, Israel did not burn any cities that stood on their mounds, except Hazor alone, which Joshua burned.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:17 - Heshbon and all its cities which are on the plain: Dibon, Bamoth-baal, 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, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the leaders 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 this 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 at the camp at Shiloh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘[fn]Designate the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you [fn]through Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:2 - And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “The LORD commanded [fn]through Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasture lands for our cattle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:3 - So the sons of Israel gave the Levites from their inheritance these cities with their pasture lands, in accordance with the [fn]command of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:8 -

Now the sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as the LORD had commanded [fn]through Moses.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:9 -

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

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

And 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 one who commits manslaughter, with its pasture lands, and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands; two cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:29 - Jarmuth with its pasture lands, and 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 - And from the tribe of Naphtali, they gave Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, with its pasture lands, Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands, and Kartan with its pasture lands; three cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:35 - Dimnah with its pasture lands, and 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 drove out from there the three sons of Anak.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11 -

“At the sound of those who distribute water among the watering places,

There they will recount the righteous deeds of the LORD,

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

Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:4 - 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 - He [fn]inflicted a very great defeat on them from Aroer [fn]to the entrance of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim. So the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - The men of Israel then turned back against the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city with the cattle and all that they found; they also set on fire all the cities which they found.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:23 - The sons of Benjamin did so, and took wives according to their number from those who danced, whom they seized. And they went and returned to their inheritance, and rebuilt the cities and lived in them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:9 - Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! For if I in fact learn that my father has decided [fn]to inflict harm on you, would I not inform you?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:7 -

Now when the people of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, with those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; then the Philistines came and settled in them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:6 - And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom; take your lord's servants and pursue him, so that he does not find for himself fortified cities and escape from our sight.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7 - then they came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - So Hiram left Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they [fn]did not please him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 -

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

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

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 -

‘Have you not heard?

Long ago I did it;

From ancient times I planned it.

Now I have brought it about,

That you would turn fortified cities into ruined heaps.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:23 - But Geshur and Aram took [fn]the villages of Jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, sixty settlements. All of 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 together with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:64 - So the sons of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:65 - They gave by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:67 - They gave to them the following cities of refuge: Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its pasture lands, Gezer with its pasture lands,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:7 -

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

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:10 - Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:19 - Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured from him several cities, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and [fn]Ephron with its villages.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - For he said to Judah, “Let's build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still [fn]ours because we have sought the LORD our God; we have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:14 - They [fn]destroyed all the cities around Gerar, for the dread of the LORD had fallen on them; and they pillaged all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:4 - And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa, and he sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they [fn]conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the [fn]storage cities of Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:12 - So Jehoshaphat grew greater and greater, and he built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:5 - He gathered the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect money from all Israel to [fn]repair the house of your God annually, and you shall [fn]do the work quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:13 - But the [fn]troops whom Amaziah sent back, those not going with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck and killed three thousand of them, and plundered a large amount of spoils.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:6 -

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

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

Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, broke the memorial stones in pieces, cut down the [fn]Asherim and pulled down the high places and the altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until [fn]they had destroyed them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:1 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:28 - also storehouses 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 made cities for himself and acquired flocks and herds in abundance, because God had given him very great [fn]wealth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25 -

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

They took possession of houses full of every good thing,

Carved out cisterns, vineyards, olive groves,

Fruit trees in abundance.

So they ate, were filled and put on fat,

And lived luxuriously in Your great goodness.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:28 -

“He has lived in desolate cities,

In houses no one would inhabit,

Which are destined to become [fn]ruins.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6 -

[fn]The enemy has come to an end in everlasting 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 person scales the city of the mighty

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

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 -

I send it against a godless nation

And commission it against the people of My fury

To capture spoils 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,

Because I have understanding;

And I removed the boundaries of the peoples

And plundered their treasures,

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

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:17 -

Who made the world like a wilderness

And overthrew its cities,

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

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 -

For You have turned a city into a heap,

A fortified city into a ruin;

A palace of strangers is no longer a city,

It will never be rebuilt.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:5 -

“For He has brought low those who dwell on high, the unassailable city;

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

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 -

Thorns will come up in its fortified towers,

Weeds and thistles in its fortified cities;

It will also be a haunt of jackals

And a habitat of ostriches.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 -

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

And your [fn]descendants will possess nations

And will resettle the desolate cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 -

Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins,

They will raise up the former devastations;

And they will repair the ruined cities,

The desolations of many generations.

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

Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say,

“Blow the trumpet in the land;

Cry aloud and say,

‘Assemble, and let's go

Into the fortified cities.'

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 -

“Report it to the nations, now!

Proclaim to Jerusalem,

[fn]Enemies are coming from a remote country,

And they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 -

Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them,

A wolf of the deserts will destroy them,

A leopard is watching their cities.

Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces,

Because their wrongdoings are many,

Their apostasies are numerous.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17 -

“They will devour your harvest and your food;

They will devour your sons and your daughters;

They will devour your flocks and your herds;

They will devour your vines and your fig trees;

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14 -

Why are we sitting still?

Assemble yourselves, and let's go into the fortified cities

And perish there,

For the LORD our God has doomed us

And 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 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 is coming

A great roar from the land of the north

To make the cities of Judah

A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:15 - “This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Behold, I am going to bring on this city and all its towns the entire disaster that I have declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to listen to My words.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6 - For this is what the LORD says 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 a wilderness,

Cities that are not inhabited.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - To Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects of horror, [fn]hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:21 -

“Set up roadmarks for yourself,

Place guideposts for yourself;

Direct your [fn]mind to the highway,

The way by which you went.

Return, O virgin of Israel,

Return to these your cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:1 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and all the remaining cities of Judah, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:22 - ‘Behold, I am going to give a command,' declares the LORD, ‘and I will bring them back to this city, and they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2 - “This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: ‘You yourselves have seen all the disaster that I have brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are in ruins and no one lives in them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 -

“Leave the cities and live among the rocky cliffs,

You 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]very numerous, like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine jewelry; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7 -

‘He [fn]destroyed their [fn]palaces

And laid waste their cities;

And the land and its fullness were appalled

Because of the sound of his roaring.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 -

For this is what the Lord GOD says: “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 -

‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “On the day that I cleanse you from all your wrongdoings, I will populate the cities, and the places of ruins 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 [fn]bucklers and shields, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - An area twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession [fn]cities in which to live.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:15 - “Then the king of the North will come, pile up an assault ramp, and capture a well-fortified city; and the forces of the South will not stand their ground, not even [fn]their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:14 -

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;

And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,

But I will send a fire on its cities, and it will consume its palatial buildings.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:14 -

“I will also restore the fortunes 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 army of the sons of Israel,

Who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,

And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad,

Will [fn]possess the cities of the Negev.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:11 -

[fn]Go on your way, inhabitant of [fn]Shaphir, in shameful nakedness.

The inhabitant of [fn]Zaanan does not [fn]escape.

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

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:11 -

“I will also eliminate the cities of your land,

And tear down all your fortifications.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14 -

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

And destroy your cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:16 -

A day of trumpet and battle cry

Against the fortified cities

And the high corner towers.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:12 -

Then the angel of the LORD said, “LORD of armies, how long will You take no pity on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been indignant for these seventy years?”

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:20 -

“The LORD of armies says this: ‘It will yet turn out that peoples will come, that is, the inhabitants of many cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:21 - ‘The inhabitants of one city will go to another, saying, “Let's go at once to plead for the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of armies; [fn]I also will 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 [fn]seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand, which is on the seashore; and your [fn]seed shall possess the gate of [fn]their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,

“May you, our sister,

Become thousands of ten thousands,

And may your [fn]descendants possess

The gate of those who hate them.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - ‘As for the 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 I will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become ruins.
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 the people in open camps or in 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 indeed, we saw the [fn]descendants of Anak there!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 -

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

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

Now the cities at the extremity of the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the border of Edom in the south were Kabzeel, Eder, and 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, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:41 - Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:44 - Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:51 - Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:54 - Humtah, 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 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, Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:24 - Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (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 - 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 was the inheritance of the sons of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:23 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:35 - The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:41 - The territory of their inheritance was Zorah, 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 - so that one who commits manslaughter by [fn]killing a person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become your refuge from the avenger of blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - These were the designated cities for all the sons of Israel and for the stranger who resides among them, so that whoever [fn]kills a 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 to the sons of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, thirteen cities were given by lot from the tribe of Judah, from the tribe of the Simeonites, and from the tribe of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5 -

And to the rest of the sons of Kohath ten cities were given by lot from the families of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:6 -

And to the sons of Gershon thirteen cities were given by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:7 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:19 - All the cities of the 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, and Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities in all.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:40 - All these were the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:14 - The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel [fn]recovered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. So there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13 - Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and juniper timber and gold, [fn]satisfying 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 have been called the land of [fn]Cabul to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:39 - Now as for the rest of the acts of Ahab and everything 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 - “And now, when this letter comes to you, since your master's sons are with you, [fn]as well as the chariots and horses, and a fortified city and the weapons,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:22 - Segub 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 the reign of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:32 - Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:60 - and from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its pasture lands, [fn]Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. Their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities in all.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:62 - To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, were given from the tribe of Issachar, the tribe of Asher, the tribe of Naphtali, and the tribe of Manasseh, thirteen cities in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:63 - To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:66 -

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

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

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

So that they may live there and possess it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 -

Your land is desolate,

Your cities are burned with fire;

As for your fields, strangers are devouring them in front of you;

It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 -

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

“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,

Houses are without people

And the land is utterly desolate,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:31 -

“Wail, you gate; cry, you city;

[fn]Melt away, Philistia, all of you!

For smoke comes from the north,

And there is no straggler in his ranks.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 -

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

Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;

And [fn]the land will be a desolation.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 -

Desolation is left in the city

And the gate is battered to ruins.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:3 -

Therefore a strong people will glorify You;

Cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:1 -

This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed,

Whom I have taken by the right hand,

To subdue nations before him

And [fn]to undo the weapons belt on the waist of kings;

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 -

“The young lions have roared at him,

They have [fn]roared loudly.

And they have made his land a waste;

His cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 -

“A lion has gone up from his thicket,

And a destroyer of nations has set out;

He has gone out from his place

To make your land a waste.

Your cities will be ruins,

Without an inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 -

I looked, and behold, [fn]the fruitful land was a wilderness,

And all its cities were pulled down

Before the LORD, before His fierce anger.

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

The cities of the Negev have been locked up,

And there is no one to open them;

All Judah has been taken into exile,

Wholly taken into exile.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 -

But may that man be like the cities

Which the LORD overthrew without [fn]relenting,

And may he hear an outcry in the morning

And [fn]an alarm for war at noon;

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

“Give [fn]wings to Moab,

For she will [fn]flee away;

And her cities will become a desolation,

Without inhabitants in them.

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

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - “For I have sworn by Myself,” declares the LORD, “that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a disgrace, a wasteland, and a curse; and all its cities will become permanent ruins.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 -

“Her cities have become an object of horror,

A dry land and a desert,

A land in which no one lives

And through which no [fn]one of mankind passes.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - [fn]Everywhere you live, cities will be in ruins and the high places will be deserted, so that your altars will be in ruins and [fn]deserted, your idols will be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars will be cut down, and your works wiped out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:20 - “The inhabited cities will be in ruins, and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am the LORD.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - “So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of deserted lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate for forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 -

“They will be desolate

In the midst of the desolated lands;

And her cities will be

In the midst of the devastated cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9 - “I will make you a permanent desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - ‘And I will multiply people on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited and the ruins will be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - “And they will say, ‘This desolated land has become like the Garden of Eden; and the waste, desolated and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38 - “Like the flock [fn]for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:8 -

“So the people of two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink water,

But would not be satisfied;

Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12 -

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

From Assyria and the cities of Egypt,

From Egypt even to the Euphrates River,

Even from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:6 -

“I have eliminated nations;

Their corner towers are deserted.

I have laid waste their streets,

With no one passing by;

Their cities have been laid waste,

Without a person, without an inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:17 - “Again, proclaim, saying, ‘This is what the LORD of armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:7 - ‘Are these not the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and carefree along with its cities around it, and the [fn]Negev and the [fn]foothills were inhabited?'”
N-VSF
Occurrences: 1 time in 1 verse
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Vocative Singular Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:16 -

Take your harp, wander around the city,

You forgotten prostitute;

Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs,

That you may be remembered.

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