Help QuickNav Adv. Options
ESV

ESV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H5892 - ʿîr

Choose a new font size and typeface
עִיר
Transliteration
ʿîr
Pronunciation
eer
Listen
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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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

Read the Full Entry

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 3 / 19 (Deu 3:6–Jos 6:14)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:6 - And we devoted them to destruction,[fn] as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city, men, women, and children.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:7 - But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:10 - all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:12 - “When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:19 - Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in the cities that I have given you,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 - Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - that the manslayer might flee there, anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past; he may flee to one of these cities and save his life:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 - “And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - “Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:12 - “If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to dwell there,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:13 - that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:15 - you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction,[fn] all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:16 - You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:1 - “When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:2 - you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:7 - Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways—then you shall add three other cities to these three,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:11 - “But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:12 - then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:10 - “When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15 - Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16 - But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:19 - “When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20 - Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6 - And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:20 - and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:21 - Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 - then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:17 - and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, “I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity.” And yet this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:18 - Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip[fn] him,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:21 - then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father’s house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:23 - “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:24 - then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:8 - Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, ‘I do not wish to take her,’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:3 - Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:16 - Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:3 - the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:3 - You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:4 - Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:5 - And when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat,[fn] and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:7 - And he said to the people, “Go forward. March around the city and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the LORD.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:11 - So he caused the ark of the LORD to circle the city, going about it once. And they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:14 - And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
ESV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
ESV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.