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Lexicon :: Strong's H5892 - ʿîr

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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 2 / 19 (Lev 25:30–Deu 3:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - ‘But if it is not redeemed for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city H5892 passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not [fn]revert in the jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - ‘As for cities H5892 of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities H5892 which are their possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - ‘What, therefore, [fn]belongs to the Levites may be redeemed, and a house sale [fn]in the city H5892 of [fn]their possession [fn]reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities H5892 of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34 - ‘But pasture fields of their cities H5892 shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25 - ‘I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities H5892, I will send pestilence among you so that you shall be given over into enemy hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - ‘And I will give your cities H5892 over as a waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - ‘You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities H5892 become waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - “And how is the land in which they live, is it good or bad? And how are the cities H5892 in which they live, are they [fn]like open camps or with fortifications?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:28 - “Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities H5892 are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw the [fn]descendants of Anak there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:16 - ‘So we cried out to Yahweh, and He heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out from Egypt; now behold, we are at Kadesh, a town H5892 on the edge of your territory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - So Israel made a vow to Yahweh and said, “If You will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities H5892 to destruction.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3 - Then Yahweh heard the voice of Israel and gave the Canaanites over; so they devoted them and their cities H5892 to destruction. Thus the name of the place was called [fn]Hormah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:25 - And Israel took all these cities H5892, and Israel lived in all the cities H5892 of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her [fn]towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26 - For Heshbon was the city H5892 of Sihon, king of the Amorites. Now it was he who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:27 - Therefore those who use proverbs say,

“Come to Heshbon! Let it be built!

So let the city H5892 of Sihon be established.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:36 -

Then Balak heard that Balaam was coming and went out to meet him at the city H5892 of Moab, which is on the Arnon border, [fn]at the end of the border.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:19 -

“And one from Jacob shall have dominion,

And will make the survivor perish from the city H5892.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:10 - Then they burned all their cities H5892 where they lived and all their camps with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:16 -

Then they came near to him and said, “We will build here sheepfolds for our livestock and cities H5892 for our little ones;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17 - but we ourselves will be armed ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place, and our little ones live in the fortified cities H5892 because of the inhabitants of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:24 - “Build yourselves cities H5892 for your little ones and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do [fn]what you have promised.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:26 - “Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall [fn]remain there in the cities H5892 of Gilead;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 -

So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Joseph’s son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities H5892 with their [fn]territories, the cities H5892 of the surrounding land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:36 - and Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified cities H5892, and sheepfolds for sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:38 - and Nebo and Baal-meon—their names being changed—and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the cities H5892 which they built.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities H5892 to live in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities H5892.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:3 - “And the cities H5892 shall be theirs to live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their herds and for all their beasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 -

“And the pasture lands of the cities H5892 which you shall give to the Levites shall extend from the wall of the city H5892 [fn]outward [fn]one thousand cubits around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - “You shall also measure outside the city H5892 on the east side [fn]two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, with the city H5892 in the center. This shall become theirs as pasture lands for the cities H5892.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “And the cities H5892 which you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities H5892 of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities H5892.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - “All the cities H5892 which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities H5892, [fn]together with their pasture lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - “Now as for the cities H5892 which you shall give from the possession of the sons of Israel, you shall take more from the larger, and you shall take less from the smaller; each shall give some of his cities H5892 to the Levites in proportion to his possession which he inherits.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - then you shall select for yourselves cities H5892 to be your cities H5892 of refuge, that the manslayer who has struck down any person unintentionally may flee there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12 - ‘And the cities H5892 shall be for you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13 - ‘And the cities H5892 which you are to give shall be your six cities H5892 of refuge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - ‘You shall give three cities H5892 across the Jordan and three cities H5892 [fn]in the land of Canaan; they are to be cities H5892 of refuge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - ‘These six cities H5892 shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel and for the sojourner and for the foreign resident among them; that anyone who strikes a person down unintentionally may flee there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25 - ‘And the congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall restore him to his city H5892 of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26 - ‘But if the manslayer at any time goes beyond the border of his city H5892 of refuge to which he may flee,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27 - and the blood avenger finds him outside the border of his city H5892 of refuge, and the blood avenger kills the manslayer, he will not be guilty of blood

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - because he should have remained in his city H5892 of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32 - ‘And you shall not take ransom for him who has fled to his city H5892 of refuge, that he may return to live in the land [fn]before the death of the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:22 -

“Then all of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may search out the land for us and bring back to us word of the way by which we should go up and the cities H5892 which we shall enter.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 - ‘Where can we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities H5892 are large and fortified to heaven. And moreover, we saw the sons of the Anakim there.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:34 - “So we captured all his cities H5892 at that time and [fn]devoted to destruction [fn]the men, women, and little ones of every city H5892. We left no survivor remaining.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35 - “We took only the animals as our plunder and the spoil of the cities H5892 which we had captured.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:36

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:36 - “From Aroer which is on the edge of the [fn]valley of Arnon and from the city H5892 which is in the [fn]valley, even to Gilead, there was not a town that was too high for us; Yahweh our God gave all [fn]over to us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - “Only you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the [fn]river Jabbok and the cities H5892 of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God had commanded us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4 - “And we captured all his cities H5892 at that time; there was not a town which we did not take from them: sixty cities H5892, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5 - “All these were cities H5892 fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many [fn]unwalled towns H5892.

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