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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 17 / 19 (Jer 38:9–Eze 9:9)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:9 - My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:17 - Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and H5892 this city H5892 shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:18 - But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city H5892 be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:23 - So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city H5892 to be burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:2 - And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city H5892 was broken up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:4 - And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city H5892 by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:9 - Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, H5892 and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16 - Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city H5892 for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:5 - Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities H5892 of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:10 - As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities H5892 that ye have taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7 - And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, H5892 that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities H5892 of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities H5892 of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:17 - But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities H5892 of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:21 - The incense that ye burned in the cities H5892 of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:8 - Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city H5892 and the inhabitants thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:2 - Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, H5892 and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8 - And the spoiler shall come upon every city, H5892 and H5892 no city H5892 shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9 - Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof H5892 shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:15 - Moab is spoiled, and H5892 gone up out of her cities, H5892 and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:24 - And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities H5892 of the land of Moab, far or near.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 - O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, H5892 and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:1 - Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof H5892 shall be perpetual wastes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:25 - How is the city H5892 of praise not left, the city of my joy!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:32 - And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, H5892 and it shall devour all round about him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:31 - One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city H5892 is taken at one end,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Her cities H5892 are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:5 - So the city H5892 was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:6 - And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, H5892 so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:7 - Then the city H5892 was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city H5892 by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city H5892 round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:15 - Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, H5892 and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25 - He took also out of the city H5892 an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; H5892 and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - How doth the city H5892 sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:19 - I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, H5892 while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12 - They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, H5892 when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:15 - All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city H5892 that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:51 - Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:11 - They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities H5892 of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:1 - Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, H5892 even Jerusalem:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:3 - Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: H5892 and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:2 - Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, H5892 when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - In all your dwellingplaces the cities H5892 shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15 - The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, H5892 famine and pestilence shall devour him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:23 - Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city H5892 is full of violence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1 - He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city H5892 to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:4 - And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, H5892 through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5 - And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, H5892 and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city H5892 full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

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