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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 46 times in 42 verses in 'Isa' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your country is desolate, your cities H5892 are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:8 - And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 - And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city H5892 of righteousness, the faithful city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities H5892 be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:17 - That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities H5892 thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:21 - Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:31

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:31 - Howl, O gate; cry, O city; H5892 thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:1 - The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, H5892 and it shall be a ruinous heap.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:2 - The cities H5892 of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 - In that day shall his strong cities H5892 be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:2 - And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city H5892 against city, H5892 and kingdom against kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18 - In that day shall five cities H5892 in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city H5892 of destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2 - Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, H5892 a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:9 - Ye have seen also the breaches of the city H5892 of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:16 - Take an harp, go about the city, H5892 thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 - In the city H5892 is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 - For thou hast made of a city H5892 an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; H5892 it shall never be built.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:1 - In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; H5892 salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 - Yet the defenced city H5892 shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:14 - Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city H5892 shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:19 - When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city H5892 shall be low in a low place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, H5892 he regardeth no man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 - Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities H5892 of Judah, and took them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:15 - Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city H5892 shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:13 - Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city H5892 of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities H5892 into ruinous heaps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:33

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:33 - Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, H5892 nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:34

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:34 - By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, H5892 saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:35

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:35 - For I will defend this city H5892 to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6 - And I will deliver thee and this city H5892 out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:9 - O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities H5892 of Judah, Behold your God!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:11 - Let the wilderness and the cities H5892 thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:26 - That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities H5892 of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:13 - I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, H5892 and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:2 - For they call themselves of the holy city, H5892 and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:1 - Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: H5892 for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 - For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities H5892 to be inhabited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:14 - The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city H5892 of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 - And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, H5892 the desolations of many generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:12 - And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city H5892 not forsaken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - Thy holy cities H5892 are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:6 - A voice of noise from the city, H5892 a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
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