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

Page 11 / 19 (1Ch 2:22–2Ch 12:4)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:22 - And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities H5892 in the land of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:23 - And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. H5892 All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:31 - And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities H5892 unto the reign of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:32 - And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities: H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:33 - And all their villages that were round about the same cities, H5892 unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:56

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:56 - But the fields of the city, H5892 and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:57

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:57 - And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities H5892 of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:60

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:60 - And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities H5892 throughout their families were thirteen cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61 - And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:62

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:62 - And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:63

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:63 - Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:64

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:64 - And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities H5892 with their suburbs.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:65

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:65 - And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, H5892 which are called by their names.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:66

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:66 - And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities H5892 of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:67

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:67 - And they gave unto them, of the cities H5892 of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:2 - Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities H5892 were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:7 - And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their cities, H5892 and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:5 - And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city H5892 of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:7 - And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city H5892 of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:8 - And he built the city H5892 round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:2 - And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities H5892 and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:13 - So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city H5892 of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:1 - And David made him houses in the city H5892 of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:29 - And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city H5892 of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:8 - Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities H5892 of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:7 - So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, H5892 and came to battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:9 - And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: H5892 and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:13 - Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities H5892 of our God: and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:15 - And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. H5892 Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:2 - And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:3 - And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities H5892 of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:25 - And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, H5892 and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:14 - And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, H5892 and with the king at Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:2 - Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city H5892 of David, which is Zion.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:5 - Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city H5892 among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:34 - If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city H5892 which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:38 - If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city H5892 which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:2 - That the cities H5892 which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:4 - And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, H5892 which he built in Hamath.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5 - Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, H5892 with walls, gates, and bars;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:6 - And Baalath, and all the store cities H5892 that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, H5892 and the cities H5892 of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:11 - And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city H5892 of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:25 - And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, H5892 and with the king at Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:31 - And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city H5892 of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:17 - But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities H5892 of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:5 - And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities H5892 for defence in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:10 - And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:12 - And in every several city H5892 he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:23 - And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: H5892 and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:4 - And he took the fenced cities H5892 which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

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