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Lexicon :: Strong's H5892 - ʿîr

Aa
עִיר
Transliteration
ʿîr
Pronunciation
eer
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From עוּר (H5782) a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1587a,1615

Strong’s Definitions

עִיר ʻîyr, eer; or (in the plural) עָר ʻâr; or עָיַר ʻâyar; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post):—Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,089x

The KJV translates Strong's H5892 in the following manner: city (1,074x), town (7x), every one (2x), variant (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,089x
The KJV translates Strong's H5892 in the following manner: city (1,074x), town (7x), every one (2x), variant (6x).

  1. excitement, anguish

    1. of terror

  2. city, town (a place of waking, guarded)

    1. city, town

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עִיר ʻîyr, eer; or (in the plural) עָר ʻâr; or עָיַר ʻâyar; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post):—Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
STRONGS H5892: Abbreviations
† I. עִיר noun [masculine] excitement; — of terror, וּבֶהָלוֺת ע׳ Jeremiah 15:9; of rage (si vera lectio), לֹא אָבוֺא בְּעִיר Hosea 11:9, but St proposes לְבָעֵר compare We Oort Now GASm. — בָּעִיר Psalm 73:20 see עור Hiph. — see II, III. עִיר.

II. עִיר 1092 noun feminineGenesis 10:12 (AlbrZAW xvi.40 f.) city, town (√ unknown; Late Hebrew id.; ? Phoenician ער Lzb345; Sabean ער fortified height (compare 3) PräZMG xxvi (1872), 437, ערן, עהרן city CISiv. pp. 94, 95, 173); — ע׳ absolute Genesis 4:17 +, construct Genesis 24:10 +; הָעִ֫ירָה 1 Kings 14:12 + 7 times; suffix עִירִי 2 Samuel 19:38 2 times, etc.; plural עָרִים Isaiah 6:11 +, עֲיָרִים Judges 10:4 (text error, or word-play, compare GFM); construct עָרֵי Genesis 19:29 +; suffix עָרַי Zechariah 1:17, עָרֵיכֶם Isaiah 1:7 +, etc.; —
1. city, town, abode of men Genesis 4:17 (J) and often; גְּדֹלָה Genesis 10:12 (J), +, or קְטַנָּה Ecclesiastes 9:14 (compare Genesis 19:20); especially
a. fortified: עָרִים בְּצֻרוֺת 2 Samuel 20:6 +, etc., see בָּצַר, מִבְצָר; עִיר מִבְצַרצֹֿר Joshua 19:29 (P) fortified city (of) Tyre, מָצוֺר ע׳ Psalm 31:22 +, etc., see מָצוֺר, מְצוּרָה below צוּר (Micah 7:12 see מָצוֺר); עָזלָֿנוּ ע׳ Isaiah 26:1, עָרֵי מָעוּזּוֺ Isaiah 17:9; וּבְרִיחַ דְּלָתַיִם ע׳ 1 Samuel 23:7; חוֺמָה ע׳ Leviticus 25:29, compare Leviticus 25:30 (P), 1 Kings 4:13; on Hosea 10:14 see I. עַם 2b (1 Samuel 9:14 read הַשֵּׁעַר Greek Version of the LXX We Dr and others).
b. opposed to הַפְּרָזִי כֹּפֶר 1 Samuel 6:18, הַפּ׳ עָרֵי Deuteronomy 3:5, הַפְּרָזוֹת ע׳ Esther 9:19; distinguished from dependencies חֲצֵרִים Joshua 13:23 + often P.
c. עָרֶיה are dependent towns Joshua 13:17 (P), Jeremiah 19:15.
†d. עָרֵי הַמַּמְלָכָה Joshua 10:2 (JE) royal cities (i.e. with a king, compare Tel Amarna al šarri), so singular 1 Samuel 27:5, opposed to הַשָּׁדֶה עָרֵי 1 Samuel 27:5 rural towns; הַמְּלוּכָה ע׳ 2 Samuel 12:26 (but read הַמַּיִם ע׳ We Bu Kit Löhr HPS, see 2 below).
†e. עֶרֵי מִסְכְּנוֺת Exodus 1:11 storage-cities, so 1 Kings 9:19 2 Chronicles 8:6, 4; 17:12; for נַפְתָּלִי ע׳ מ׳ 2 Chronicles 16:4 read probably כִּנְרוֺת עֵלוֿגו׳ (as 1 Kings 15:20; Be Kit Buhl); compare הֶרֶכֶב ע׳ 1 Kings 9:19; 1 Kings 10:26 2 Chronicles 8:6; 9:25; 2 Chronicles 1:14; הַפָּרָשִׁים ע׳ 1 Kings 9:19 2 Chronicles 8:6.
†f. (הַ)מִקְלָט ע׳ (P) asylum-cities Numbers 35:11, 13, 14; Joshua 20:2, compare Numbers 35:25, 26, 27, 28, 32, לְמִקְלָט ע׳ Numbers 35:12; מִקְלַט הָרֹצֵחַ ע׳ Joshua 21:13 + 4 times in Joshua 21.
g. (הָ)אֱלֹהִים ע׳ = Jerusalem: Psalm 46:5; Psalm 87:3, compare Psalm 48:2; Psalm 48:9; י׳ ע׳ Isaiah 60:14; Psalm 101:8; צְבָאוֺת י׳ ע׳ Psalm 48:9.
h. city = inhabitants 1 Samuel 4:13; 1 Samuel 5:12; Isaiah 22:2; Ruth 1:19, so 2 Samuel 20:22 (reading הָעִיר for MT הָעָם) Greek Version of the LXX We Dr and others (compare also following).
i. combinations are: רֹכְלִים ע׳ Ezekiel 17:4 city of merchants; מוֺשָׁב ע׳ Psalm 107:4; Psalm 107:7; Psalm 107:36 city for dwelling; especially of character or condition: † הַצֶּדֶק ע׳ Isaiah 1:26, † ע׳ הָאֱמֶת Zechariah 8:3; † הַקּדֶשׁ ע׳ Isaiah 48:2; Isaiah 52:1; Nehemiah 11:1, 18, compare Daniel 9:24, all of Jerusalem; עָרֵי קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ Jeremiah 5:17 of Judaean cities; of foreign cities, תְּהִלָּךְ ע׳ Jeremiah 49:25, הָע׳ הַהֻלָּלה Ezekiel 26:17, הָעַלִּיזָה הָע׳ Zephaniah 2:15; of Jerusalem also הַיּוֺנָה הָע׳ Zephaniah 3:1 oppressive city, (הַ)דָּמִים ע׳ bloody city Ezekiel 22:2; Ezekiel 24:6, 9 and (of Nineveh) Nahum 3:1.
2. of fortress in a city especially עִיר דָּוִד 2 Samuel 5:7, 9; 2 Samuel 6:10 + often (see דָּוִד); כֵית הַבָּ֑עַל ע׳ 2 Kings 10:25 (crpt; Klo proposes דְּבִיר for ע׳, compare Kmp Benz Kit); הַמַּיִם ע׳ 2 Samuel 12:27 (so read also 2 Samuel 12:26, see 1d).
3. apparently fortified place, of any size, עִיר מִבְצָר בְּכָלעָֿרֵיהֶם מִמִּגְּדַּל נוֺצְרִים עַדֿ 2 Kings 17:9 2 Kings 18:8; compare Numbers 13:9 (P; but on compare of ver. see Di); perhaps also עֲמָלֵק ע׳ 1 Samuel 15:5 (HPS). — Hosea 7:4 see I. עור Hiph.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:17; 4:17; 10:12; 10:12; 19:20; 19:29; 24:10

Exodus

1:11

Leviticus

25:29; 25:30

Numbers

13:9; 35:11; 35:12; 35:13; 35:14; 35:25; 35:26; 35:27; 35:28; 35:32

Deuteronomy

3:5

Joshua

10:2; 13:17; 13:23; 19:29; 20:2; 21:13

Judges

10:4

Ruth

1:19

1 Samuel

4:13; 5:12; 6:18; 9:14; 15:5; 23:7; 27:5; 27:5

2 Samuel

5:7; 5:9; 6:10; 12:26; 12:26; 12:27; 19:38; 20:6; 20:22

1 Kings

4:13; 9:19; 9:19; 9:19; 10:26; 14:12; 15:20

2 Kings

10:25; 17:9; 18:8

2 Chronicles

1:14; 8:4; 8:6; 8:6; 8:6; 9:25; 16:4; 17:12

Nehemiah

11:1; 11:18

Esther

9:19

Psalms

31:22; 46:5; 48:2; 48:9; 48:9; 73:20; 87:3; 101:8; 107:4; 107:7; 107:36

Ecclesiastes

9:14

Isaiah

1:7; 1:26; 6:11; 17:9; 22:2; 26:1; 48:2; 52:1; 60:14

Jeremiah

5:17; 15:9; 19:15; 49:25

Ezekiel

17:4; 22:2; 24:6; 24:9; 26:17

Daniel

9:24

Hosea

7:4; 10:14; 11:9

Micah

7:12

Nahum

3:1

Zephaniah

2:15; 3:1

Zechariah

1:17; 8:3

H5892

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Strong's Number H5892 matches the Hebrew עִיר (ʿîr),
which occurs 1,095 times in 936 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 19 / 19 (Hos 11:6–Zec 14:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:6 - And the sword shall abide on his cities, H5892 and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:9 - I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:10 - I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? H5892 and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:9 - They shall run to and fro in the city; H5892 they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:6 - Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, H5892 and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, H5892 and the LORD hath not done it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:6 - And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, H5892 and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:7 - And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, H5892 and caused it not to rain upon another city: H5892 one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:8 - So two or three cities H5892 wandered unto one city, H5892 to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:3 - For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city H5892 that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:8 - The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city H5892 with all that is therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:17 - Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, H5892 and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:14 - And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the H5892 waste cities, H5892 and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:20 - And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities H5892 of the south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:2 - Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, H5892 and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:2 - Arise, go unto Nineveh, that H5892 great city, H5892 and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:3 - So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an H5892 exceeding great city H5892 of three days' journey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4 - And Jonah began to enter into the city H5892 a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:5 - So Jonah went out of the city, H5892 and sat on the east side of the city, H5892 and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11 - And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, H5892 wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:11 - And I will cut off the cities H5892 of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14 - And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:9 - The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, H5892 and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12 - In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the H5892 fortified cities, H5892 and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:1 - Woe to the H5892 bloody city! H5892 it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:12 - Woe to him that buildeth a town H5892 with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:16 - A day of the trumpet and alarm against the H5892 fenced cities, H5892 and against the high towers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15 - This is the H5892 rejoicing city H5892 that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:1 - Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the H5892 oppressing city! H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:6 - I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities H5892 are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:12 - Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities H5892 of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:17 - Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities H5892 through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:7 - Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof H5892 round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:3 - Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city H5892 of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:5 - And the streets of the city H5892 shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:20 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of H5892 many cities: H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:2 - For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city H5892 shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city H5892 shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. H5892

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