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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 1,095 times in 936 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 19 (Jos 6:15–Jos 14:12)

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Then it happened that on the seventh day they rose early at the [fn]breaking of dawn and marched around the city H5892 in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city H5892 seven times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:16 - Now it happened that on the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, “Shout! For Yahweh has given you the city H5892.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17 - “And the city H5892 shall be devoted to destruction, it and all that is in it belongs to Yahweh; only Rahab the harlot [fn]and all who are with her in the house shall live because she hid the messengers whom we sent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20 - So the people shouted, and [fn]the priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down [fn]beneath itself, so that the people went up into the city H5892, every man straight [fn]ahead, and they took the city H5892.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - And they devoted to destruction everything in the city H5892, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:24 - But they burned the city H5892 with fire, and all that was in it. Only the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the [fn]house of Yahweh.

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Then Joshua made them swear an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed before Yahweh is the man who rises up and builds this city H5892 Jericho; with the loss of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he shall set up its gates.”

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Now Yahweh said to Joshua, “Do not fear or be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city H5892, and his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - “So you shall do to Ai and its king just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall take only its spoil and its cattle as plunder for yourselves. [fn]Set an ambush for the city H5892 behind it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:4 - And he commanded them, saying, “See, you are going to ambush the city H5892 from behind [fn]it. Do not go very far from the city H5892, but all of you be ready.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:5 - “Then I and all the people who are with me will come near the city H5892. And it will be that when they come out to meet us as at the first, we will flee before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:6 - “And they will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city H5892, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us as at the first.’ So we will flee before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:7 - “And you shall rise from your ambush and take possession of the city H5892, for Yahweh your God will give it into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:8 - “Then it will be that when you have seized the city H5892, that you shall set the city H5892 on fire. You shall do it according to the word of Yahweh. See, I have commanded you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - Then all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near and arrived in front of the city H5892 and camped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - And he took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the [fn]city H5892.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13 - So they set the people, all the army that was on the north side of the city H5892, and its rear guard on the west side of the city H5892, and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - Now it happened that when the king of Ai saw it, the men of the city H5892 hurried and rose up early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city H5892.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:16 - And all the people who were in the city H5892 were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city H5892.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - So not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they forsook the city H5892, leaving it open, and pursued Israel.

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Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” So Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city H5892.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:19 - Then the men in ambush rose quickly from their place, and when he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city H5892 and captured it, and they quickly set the city H5892 on fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - Then the men of Ai turned [fn]back and looked, and behold, the smoke of the city H5892 ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - But Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city H5892 and that the smoke of the city H5892 ascended. So they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:22 - [fn]And the others came out from the city H5892 to meet them, so that they were trapped in the midst of Israel, [fn]some on this side and some on that side; and they struck them down until [fn]there was no one remaining for him who survived or escaped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - Israel took only the cattle and the spoil of that city H5892 as plunder for themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which He had commanded Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua gave a command, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city H5892 gate and raised over it a great heap of stones that stands to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:17 - Then the sons of Israel set out and came to their cities H5892 on the third day. Now their cities H5892 were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - they feared exceedingly because Gibeon was a great city H5892, like one of the royal cities H5892, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:19 - but as for you, do not stand there; pursue your enemies and [fn]attack them in the rear. Do not allow them to enter their cities H5892, for Yahweh your God has given them into your hand.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - Now it happened when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a very great slaughter until they were completely destroyed, and the survivors—those of them who survived—[fn]had entered the fortified cities H5892,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:37 - And they captured it and struck it and its king and all its cities H5892 and all the persons who were in it with the edge of the sword. He left no survivor remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon. And he devoted it and every person who was in it to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:39 - And he captured it and its king and all its cities H5892, and they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted every person who was in it to destruction. He left no survivor remaining. Just as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had also done to Libnah and its king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:12 - And Joshua captured all the cities H5892 of these kings and all their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and he devoted them to destruction, just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:13 - However, Israel did not burn any cities H5892 that stood on their mounds, except Hazor alone, which Joshua burned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - Now all the spoil of these cities H5892 and the cattle, the sons of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them. They left no one remaining who breathed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:19 - There was not a city H5892 which made peace with the sons of Israel except the Hivites living in Gibeon; they took them all in battle.

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Then Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab and from all the hill country of Judah and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities H5892.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:9 - from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city H5892 which is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba, as far as Dibon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - and all the cities H5892 of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:16 - And their [fn]territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city H5892 which is in the middle of the valley and all the plain by Medeba;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:17 - Heshbon, and all its cities H5892 which are on the plain: Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - even all the cities H5892 of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 - And the border of the sons of Reuben was the [fn]Jordan. This was the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families, the cities H5892 and their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:25 - And their territory was Jazer, and all the cities H5892 of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer which is before Rabbah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:28 - This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad according to their families, the cities H5892 and their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:30 - And their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all of [fn]Havvoth-jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities H5892;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:31 - also half of Gilead, with Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities H5892 of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:4 - For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a portion to the Levites in the land, except cities H5892 to live in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - “So now, give me this hill country about which Yahweh spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified cities H5892; perhaps Yahweh will be with me, and I will dispossess them as Yahweh has spoken.”

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