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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)
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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 1,093 times in 935 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 19 (Gen 4:17–Lev 25:29)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17 - And Cain knew his wife, and having conceived she bore Enoch; and he [fn]built a city; and he named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11 - Out of that land came Assur, and built Ninevi, and the city Rhooboth, and Chalach,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:12 - and Dase between Ninevi and Chalach: this is the great city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - And Lot dwelt in a city of the neighbouring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - Should there be fifty righteous in the city, wilt thou destroy them? wilt thou not spare the whole place for the sake of the fifty righteous, if they be in it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:26 - And the Lord said, If there should be in Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole city, and the whole place for their sakes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, wilt thou destroy the whole city because of the five wanting? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - But before they went to sleep, the men of the city, the Sodomites, compassed the house, both young and old, all the people together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12 - And the men said to Lot, Hast thou here sons-in-law, or sons or daughters, or if thou hast any other friend in the city, bring them out of this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law who had married his daughters, and said, Rise up, and depart out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city; but he seemed to be speaking absurdly before his sons-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 - But when it was morning, the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise and take thy wife, and thy two daughters whom thou hast, and go forth; lest thou also be destroyed with the iniquities of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:16 - And they were troubled, and the angels laid hold on his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, in that the Lord spared him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - Behold this city is near for me to escape thither, which is a small one, and there shall I be preserved, is it not little? and my soul shall live because of thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - And he said to him, Behold, I have had respect to [fn]thee also about this thing, that I should not overthrow the city about which thou hast spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - Hasten therefore to escape thither, for I shall not be able to do anything until thou art come thither; therefore he called the name of that city, Segor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - And he overthrew these cities, and all the country round about, and all that dwelt in the cities, and the plants springing out of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - And it came to pass that when God destroyed all the cities of the region round about, God remembered Abraam, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those cities in which Lot dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:10 - Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Chet, and Ephron the Chettite answered Abraam and spoke in the hearing of the sons of Chet, and of all who entered the city, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:18 - to Abraam for a possession, before the sons of Chet, and all that entered into the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 - And the servant took ten camels of his master's camels, and he took of all the goods of his master with him, and he arose and went into Mesopotamia to the city of Nachor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - And he [fn]rested his camels without the city by the well of water towards evening, when damsels go forth to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13 - Lo! I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of them that inhabit the city come forth to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - And he called it, Oath: therefore he called the name of that city, the Well of Oath, until this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - And he called the name of that place, the House of God; and the name of the city before was Ulam-luz.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - And Jacob came to Salem, a city of Secima, which is in the land of Chanaan, when he departed out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and [fn]took up a position in front of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20 - And Emmor and Sychem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - And all that went in at the gate of their city hearkened to Emmor and Sychem his son, and they were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin every male.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25 - And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, the two sons of Jacob, Symeon and Levi, Dina's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city securely, and slew every male.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - But the sons of Jacob came upon the [fn]wounded, and ravaged the city wherein they had defiled Dina their sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28 - And their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses they took, and all things whatsoever were in the city, and whatsoever were in the plain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 - So Israel departed from Secima, and the fear of God was upon the cities round about them, and they did not pursue after the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:32 - And Balac, son of Beor, reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dennaba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:35 - And Asom died; and Adad son of Barad, who cut off Madiam in the plain of Moab, ruled in his stead; and the name of his city was Getthaim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:39 - And Ballenon the son of Achobor died; and Arad the son of Barad reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Phogor; and the name of his wife was Metebeel, daughter of Matraith, son of Maizoöb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:35 - And let them gather all the food of these seven good years that are coming, and let the corn be gathered under the hand of Pharao; let food be kept in the cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 - And he gathered all the food of the seven years, in which was the plenty in the land of Egypt; and he laid up the food in the cities; the food of the fields of a city round about it he laid up in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4 - And when they had gone out of the city, and were not far off, then Joseph said to his steward, Arise, and pursue after the men; and thou shalt overtake them, and say to them, Why have ye returned evil for good?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:13 - And they rent their garments, and laid each man his sack on his ass, and returned to the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:21 - And he brought the people into bondage to him, for servants, from one extremity of Egypt to the other,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - And he set over them task-masters, who should afflict them in their works; and they built strong cities for Pharao, both Pitho, and Ramesses, and On, which is Heliopolis.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29 - And Moses said to him, When I shall have departed from the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord, and the thunderings shall cease, and the hail and the rain shall be no longer, that thou mayest know that the earth is the Lord's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33 - And Moses went forth from Pharao out of the city, and stretched out his hands to the Lord, and the thunders ceased and the hail, and the rain did not drop on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40 - then the priest shall give orders, and they shall take away the stones in which the plague is, and shall cast them out of the city into an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - And they shall scrape the house within round about, and shall pour out the dust scraped off outside the city into an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - And they shall take down the house, and its timbers and its stones, and they shall carry out all the mortar without the city into an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:53

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:53 - And he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the field, and shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:29 - And if any one should sell an inhabited house in a walled city, then there shall be the ransom of it, until the time is fulfilled: its time of ransom shall be a full year.

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