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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 61 times in 54 verses in 'Eze' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Eze 4:1–Eze 48:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:1 - Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, H5892 even Jerusalem:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:3 - Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: H5892 and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:2 - Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, H5892 when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - In all your dwellingplaces the cities H5892 shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15 - The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, H5892 famine and pestilence shall devour him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:23 - Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city H5892 is full of violence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1 - He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city H5892 to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:4 - And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, H5892 through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5 - And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, H5892 and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city H5892 full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2 - And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. H5892 And he went in in my sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:2 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:6 - Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, H5892 and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:23 - And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, H5892 and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:20 - And the cities H5892 that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:4 - He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city H5892 of merchants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7 - And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; H5892 and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:2 - Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? H5892 yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3 - Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city H5892 sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:6 - Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, H5892 to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:9 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! H5892 I will even make the pile for fire great.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:9 - Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, H5892 from his cities H5892 which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:10 - By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city H5892 wherein is made a breach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17 - And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, H5892 which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, H5892 like the cities H5892 that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities H5892 among the cities H5892 that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 - And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities H5892 shall be in the midst of the cities H5892 that are wasted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:21 - And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city H5892 is smitten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4 - I will lay thy cities H5892 waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9 - I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities H5892 shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4 - Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities H5892 that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities H5892 shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, H5892 and the wastes shall be builded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities H5892 are become fenced, and are inhabited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38 - As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities H5892 be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:9 - And they that dwell in the cities H5892 of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:16 - And also the name of the city H5892 shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:1 - In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city H5892 was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:2 - In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city H5892 on the south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:3 - And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: H5892 and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:6 - And ye shall appoint the possession of the city H5892 five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 - And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, H5892 before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, H5892 from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:15 - And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, H5892 for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city H5892 shall be in the midst thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:17 - And the suburbs of the city H5892 shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:18 - And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:19 - And they that serve the city H5892 shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:20 - All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city. H5892

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:21 - And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, H5892 over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.

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