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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 6 / 19 (Jos 21:18–Jdg 17:8)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:18 - Anathoth with its pasture lands and [fn]Almon with its pasture lands; four cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:19 - All the cities H5892 of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities H5892 with their pasture lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:20 - Then the cities H5892 from the tribe of Ephraim were allotted to the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, even to the rest of the sons of Kohath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:21 - They gave them Shechem, the city H5892 of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasture lands,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:22 - and Kibzaim with its pasture lands and Beth-horon with its pasture lands; four cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:24 - Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; four cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:25

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. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:26 - All the cities H5892 with their pasture lands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27 - 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 H5892 of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands; two cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:29 - Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En-gannim with its pasture lands; four cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:31 - Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:32 - From the tribe of Naphtali, they gave Kedesh in Galilee, the city H5892 of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands and Kartan with its pasture lands; three cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:33 - All the cities H5892 of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities H5892 with their pasture lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:35 - Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:37 - Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:38 - From the tribe of Gad, they gave Ramoth in Gilead, the city H5892 of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and Mahanaim with its pasture lands,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:39 - Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities H5892 in all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:40 - All these were the cities H5892 of the sons of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 - All the cities H5892 of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel were forty-eight cities H5892 with their pasture lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:42 - These cities H5892 each H5892 had its surrounding pasture lands; thus it was with all these cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:13 - ‘I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities H5892 which you had not built, and you have lived in them; you are eating of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:8 - Then the sons of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city H5892 on fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16 - The [fn]descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up from the city H5892 of palms with the sons of Judah, to the wilderness of Judah which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17 - Then Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites living in Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. So the name of the city H5892 was called Hormah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:23 - The house of Joseph spied out Bethel (now the name of the city H5892 was formerly Luz).

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:24 - The spies saw a man coming out of the city H5892 and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance to the city H5892 and we will treat you kindly.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:25 - So he showed them the entrance to the city, H5892 and they struck the city H5892 with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go free.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:26 - The man went into the land of the Hittites and built a city H5892 and named it Luz [fn]which is its name to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13 - And he gathered to himself the sons of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and [fn]defeated Israel, and they possessed the city H5892 of the palm trees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - Then Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the LORD had spoken to him; and because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city H5892 to do it by day, he did it by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28 - When the men of the city H5892 arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was torn down, and the Asherah which was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar which had been built.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30 - Then the men of the city H5892 said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has torn down the altar of Baal, and indeed, he has cut down the Asherah which was beside it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:16 - He took the elders of the city, H5892 and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and he [fn]disciplined the men of Succoth with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:17 - He tore down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:27 - Gideon made it into an ephod, and placed it in his city, H5892 Ophrah, and all Israel played the harlot with it there, so that it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:30 - When Zebul the ruler of the city H5892 heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:31 - He sent messengers to Abimelech [fn]deceitfully, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his [fn]relatives have come to Shechem; and behold, they are [fn]stirring up the city H5892 against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:33 - “In the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush upon the city; H5892 and behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you shall do to them [fn]whatever you can.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:35 - Now Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the city H5892 gate; and Abimelech and the people who were with him arose from the ambush.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:43 - So he took [fn]his people and divided them into three [fn]companies, and lay in wait in the field; when he looked and [fn]saw the people coming out from the city, H5892 he arose against them and [fn]slew them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:44 - Then Abimelech and the [fn]company who was with him dashed forward and stood in the entrance of the city H5892 gate; the other two [fn]companies then dashed against all who were in the field and [fn]slew them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - Abimelech fought against the city H5892 all that day, and he captured the city H5892 and killed the people who were in it; then he razed the city H5892 and sowed it with salt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51 - But there was a strong tower in the center of the city, H5892 and all the men and women with all the leaders of the city H5892 fled there and shut themselves in; and they went up on the roof of the tower.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:26 - ‘While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities H5892 that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - He struck them with a very great slaughter from Aroer [fn]to the entrance of Minnith, twenty cities, H5892 and as far as Abel-keramim. So the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:7 - Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities H5892 of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - So the men of the city H5892 said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,
“What is sweeter than honey?
And what is stronger than a lion?”
And he said to them,
“If you had not plowed with my heifer,
You would not have found out my riddle.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - When it was told to the Gazites, saying, “Samson has come here,” they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. H5892 And they kept silent all night, saying, “Let us wait until the morning light, then we will kill him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - Now Samson lay until midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the city H5892 gate and the two posts and pulled them up along with the bars; then he put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain which is opposite Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - Then the man departed from the city, H5892 from Bethlehem in Judah, to [fn]stay wherever he might find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.

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