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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 51 times in 47 verses in '1Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:10 - So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city H5892 of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:1 - And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city H5892 of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13 - The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities H5892 with walls and brasen bars:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1 - 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 king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might 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 Box1Ki 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:16 - Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city H5892 out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:44 - If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city H5892 which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:48

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:48 - And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city H5892 which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities H5892 in the land of Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities H5892 which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:13 - And he said, What cities H5892 are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:16 - For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, H5892 and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:19 - And all the cities H5892 of store that Solomon had, and cities H5892 for his chariots, and cities H5892 for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:24 - But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city H5892 of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:26 - And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities H5892 for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:27 - And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city H5892 of David his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:32 - (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city H5892 which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:36 - And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city H5892 which I have chosen me to put my name there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:43 - And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city H5892 of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:17 - But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities H5892 of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:25 - And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city H5892 where the old prophet dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:29 - And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, H5892 to mourn and to bury him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32 - For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities H5892 of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:11 - Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city H5892 shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:12 - Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, H5892 the child shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 - And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city H5892 which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:31 - And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city H5892 of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:8 - And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city H5892 of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:20 - So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities H5892 of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:23 - The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities H5892 which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:24 - And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city H5892 of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:4 - Him that dieth of Baasha in the city H5892 shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:18 - And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city H5892 was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:24 - And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city H5892 which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10 - So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, H5892 behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:2 - And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, H5892 and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:12 - And it came to pass, when Benhadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:19 - So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, H5892 and the army which followed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:30 - But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; H5892 and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, H5892 into an inner chamber.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - And Benhadad said unto him, The cities, H5892 which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:8 - So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, H5892 dwelling with Naboth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:11 - And the men of his city, H5892 even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, H5892 did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:13 - And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, H5892 and stoned him with stones, that he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:24 - Him that dieth of Ahab in the city H5892 the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:26 - And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, H5892 and to Joash the king's son;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:36 - And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, H5892 and every man to his own country.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:39 - Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities H5892 that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:50

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:50 - And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city H5892 of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
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