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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 10 / 19 (2Ki 6:15–1Ch 1:46)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15 - Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was circling the city. H5892 And his servant said to him, “Alas, my master! [fn]What shall we do?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:19 - Then Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, nor is this the city; H5892 follow me and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” And he brought them to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4 - “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ H5892 then the famine is in the city H5892 and we will die there; and if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us [fn]go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, we will but die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, H5892 and they told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Arameans, and behold, there was no one there, nor the voice of man, only the horses tied and the donkeys tied, and the tents just as they were.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - Then the king arose in the night and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone from the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, H5892 we will capture them alive and get into the city.’” H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:24 - So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city H5892 of David; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - but King [fn]Joram had returned to Jezreel to be healed of the wounds which the Arameans had [fn]inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. So Jehu said, “If this is your mind, then let no one escape or [fn]leave the city H5892 to go tell it in Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:28 - Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his grave with his fathers in the city H5892 of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - “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 H5892 and the weapons,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:5 - And the one who was over the household, and he who was over the city, H5892 the elders, and the guardians of the children, sent word to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, all that you say to us we will do, we will not make any man king; do what is good in your sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then he wrote a letter to them a second time saying, “If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow about this time.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, H5892 who were rearing them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25 - Then it came about, as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the [fn]guard and to the royal officers, “Go in, [fn]kill them; let none come out.” And they [fn]killed them with the edge of the sword; and the [fn]guard and the royal officers threw them out, and went to the [fn]inner H5892 room H5892 of the house of Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:20 - So all the people of the land rejoiced and the city H5892 was quiet. For they had put Athaliah to death with the sword at the king’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:21 - For Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city H5892 of David, and Amaziah his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25

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 H5892 which he had taken in war from the hand of Jehoahaz his father. Three times Joash [fn]defeated him and recovered the cities H5892 of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:20 - Then they brought him on horses and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city H5892 of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:7 - And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city H5892 of David, and Jotham his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:38 - And Jotham slept with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the city H5892 of David his father; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:20 - So Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city H5892 of David; and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:6 - In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities H5892 of the Medes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9 - The sons of Israel [fn]did things secretly which were not right against the LORD their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, H5892 from watchtower to fortified city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24 - The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from [fn]Avva and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities H5892 of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:26 - So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations whom you have carried away into exile in the cities H5892 of Samaria do not know the custom of the god of the land; so he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them because they do not know the custom of the god of the land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29 - But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the houses of the high places which the people of Samaria had made, every nation in their cities H5892 in which they lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8 - He [fn]defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:11 - Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and put them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities H5892 of the Medes,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13 - Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities H5892 of Judah and seized them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:30 - nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city H5892 will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:13 - ‘Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city H5892 of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25

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 to pass,
That you should turn fortified cities H5892 into ruinous heaps.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:32 - ‘Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, “He will not come to this city H5892 or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield or throw up a siege ramp against it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:33 - “By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,”’ H5892 declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:34 - ‘For I will defend this city H5892 to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:4 - Before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6 - “I will add fifteen years to your [fn]life, and I will deliver you and this city H5892 from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city H5892 for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:20 - Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, H5892 are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5 - He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities H5892 of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - Then he brought all the priests from the cities H5892 of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, H5892 which were on one’s left at the city H5892 gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17 - Then he said, “What is this monument that I see?” And the men of the city H5892 told him, “It is the grave of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Josiah also removed all the houses of the high places which were in the cities H5892 of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made provoking [fn]the LORD; and he did to them [fn]just as he had done in Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:27 - The LORD said, “I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel. And I will cast off Jerusalem, this city H5892 which I have chosen, and the [fn]temple of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 - At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city H5892 came under siege.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11 - And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, H5892 while his servants were besieging it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:2 - So the city H5892 was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3 - On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city H5892 that there was no food for the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - Then the city H5892 was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. H5892 And [fn]they went by way of the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11 - Then the rest of the people who were left in the city H5892 and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the people, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - From the city H5892 he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and five [fn]of the king’s advisers who were found in the city; H5892 and the [fn]scribe of the captain of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:43 - Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king of the sons of Israel reigned. Bela was the son of Beor, and the name of his city H5892 was Dinhabah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:46 - When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who [fn]defeated Midian in the field of Moab, became king in his place; and the name of his city H5892 was Avith.

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