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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 3 / 19 (Deu 3:6–Jos 6:14)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:6 - And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:7 - But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, H5892 we took for a prey to ourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:10 - All the cities H5892 of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities H5892 of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:12 - And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities H5892 thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:19 - But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities H5892 which I have given you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 - Then Moses severed three cities H5892 on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities H5892 he might live:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 - And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, H5892 which thou buildedst not,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities H5892 great and fenced up to heaven,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:12 - If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, H5892 which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:13 - Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, H5892 saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:15 - Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city H5892 with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:16 - And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, H5892 and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:1 - When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, H5892 and in their houses;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:2 - Thou shalt separate three cities H5892 for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, H5892 and live:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:7 - Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities H5892 for thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities H5892 more for thee, beside these three:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:11 - But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:12 - Then the elders of his city H5892 shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:10 - When thou comest nigh unto a city H5892 to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, H5892 even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15 - Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities H5892 which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities H5892 of these nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16 - But of the cities H5892 of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:19 - When thou shalt besiege a city H5892 a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20 - Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city H5892 that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities H5892 which are round about him that is slain:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - And it shall be, that the city H5892 which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city H5892 shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - And the elders of that city H5892 shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6 - And all the elders of that city, H5892 that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, H5892 and unto the gate of his place;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:20 - And they shall say unto the elders of his city, H5892 This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:21 - And all the men of his city H5892 shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 - Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city H5892 in the gate:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:17 - And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:18 - And the elders of that city H5892 shall take that man and chastise him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:21 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city H5892 shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:23 - If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, H5892 and lie with her;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:24 - Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, H5892 and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; H5892 and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:8 - Then the elders of his city H5892 shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:3 - Blessed shalt thou be in the city, H5892 and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:16 - Cursed shalt thou be in the city, H5892 and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:3 - And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city H5892 of palm trees, unto Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city H5892 Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:3 - And ye shall compass the city, H5892 all ye men of war, and go round about the city H5892 once. Thus shalt thou do six days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:4 - And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city H5892 seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:5 - And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city H5892 shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:7 - And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, H5892 and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:11 - So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, H5892 going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:14 - And the second day they compassed the city H5892 once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.

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