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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5892 matches the Hebrew עִיר (ʿîr),
which occurs 46 times in 42 verses in 'Isa' in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 -

Your land is desolate;

Your cities H5892 are burned with fire;

Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence;

It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:8 -

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard,

Like a watchman’s hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city H5892.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 -

“Then I will have your judges return as at the first,

And your counselors as at the beginning;

Afterwards you will be called the city H5892 of righteousness,

A faithful town.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 -

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He said,

“Until cities H5892 are devastated and without inhabitant,

Houses are without people,

And the land is devastated to desolation,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:17 -

Who made the world like a wilderness

And pulled down its cities H5892,

Who did not [fn]allow his prisoners to go home?’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:21 -

“Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter

Because of the iniquity of their fathers.

They must not arise and take possession of the earth

And fill the face of the world with cities H5892.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:31 -

“Wail, O gate; cry, O city H5892;

[fn]Melt away, O Philistia, all of you;

For smoke comes from the north,

And there is no straggler in his ranks.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:1 -

The [fn]oracle concerning Damascus.

“Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city H5892

And will become a fallen ruin.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:2 -

“The cities H5892 [fn]of Aroer are forsaken;

They will be for flocks, and they will lie down in them;

And there will be no one to cause them to tremble.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 -

In that day [fn]their strong cities H5892 will be like [fn]forsaken places in the forest,

Or like [fn]branches which they forsook before the sons of Israel;

And [fn]the land will be a desolation.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:2 -

“So I will incite Egyptians against Egyptians;

And they will each fight against his brother and each against his neighbor,

City H5892 against city H5892 and kingdom against kingdom.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18 -

In that day five cities H5892 in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and swearing allegiance to Yahweh of hosts; one will be called the City H5892 of [fn]Destruction.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2 -

You who were full of noise,

You roaring city H5892, you exultant town;

Your slain were not slain with the sword,

Nor [fn]did they die in battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:9 -

And you saw that the breaches

In the wall of the city H5892 of David were many;

And you collected the waters of the lower pool.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:16 -

Take your harp, walk about the city H5892,

O forgotten harlot;

Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs,

That you may be remembered.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 -

Desolation remains in the city H5892,

And the gate is struck down to ruins.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 -

For You have made a city H5892 into a heap,

A fortified town into a ruin;

A palace of strangers is a city H5892 no more,

It will never be rebuilt.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:1 -

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

“We have a strong city H5892;

He sets up walls and ramparts for salvation.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 -

For the fortified city H5892 is isolated,

A [fn]haunt [fn]forlorn and forsaken like the desert;

There the calf will graze,

And there it will lie down and [fn]feed on its twigs.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:14 -

Because the palace has been abandoned, the [fn]populated city H5892 forsaken.

[fn]Hill and watchtower have become caves forever,

A joy for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:19 -

And it will hail when the forest comes down,

And the city H5892 will be utterly laid low.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 -

The highways are desolate, [fn]the traveler has ceased;

He has broken the covenant, he has rejected the cities H5892;

He has no regard for man.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 -

Now it happened in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities H5892 of Judah and seized them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:15 - and do not let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, this city H5892 will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:13 - ‘Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city H5892 of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?’”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 -

“Have you not heard?

Long ago I did it;

From days of old I formed it.

Now I have brought it to pass,

That you should devastate fortified cities H5892 into ruinous heaps.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:33 -

“Therefore, thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city H5892 or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield or throw up a siege ramp against it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:34 - ‘By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city H5892,’ declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:35 - ‘Indeed I will defend this city H5892 to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6 - “And I will deliver you and this city H5892 from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city H5892.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:9 -

Get yourself up on a high mountain,

O Zion, bearer of good news,

Raise up your voice powerfully,

O Jerusalem, bearer of good news;

Raise it up, do not fear.

Say to the cities H5892 of Judah,

“Behold your God!”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:11 -

Let the wilderness and its cities H5892 lift up their voices,

The villages where Kedar inhabits.

Let the inhabitants of Sela sing aloud,

Let them shout for joy from the tops of the mountains.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:26 -

Confirming the word of His servant

And the counsel of His messengers He will complete

And being the One who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited!’

And of the cities H5892 of Judah, ‘They shall be built.’

And I will raise up her waste places again.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:13 -

“I have awakened him in righteousness,

And I will make all his ways smooth;

He will build My city H5892 and will let My exiles go,

Without any payment or reward,” says Yahweh of hosts.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:2 -

“For they call themselves after the holy city H5892

And are supported by the God of Israel;

Yahweh of hosts is His name.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:1 -

Awake, awake,

Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion;

Clothe yourself in your glorious garments,

O Jerusalem, the holy city H5892;

For the uncircumcised and the unclean

Will no longer come into you.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 -

“For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left.

And your seed will possess nations

And will resettle the desolate cities H5892.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:14 -

“The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you,

And all those who spurned you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet;

And they will call you the City H5892 of Yahweh,

The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 -

Then they will rebuild the ancient waste places;

They will raise up the former desolations;

And they will make new the ruined cities H5892,

The desolations from generation to generation.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:12 -

And they will call them, “The holy people,

The redeemed of Yahweh”;

And you will be called, “Sought out, a city H5892 not forsaken.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 -

Your holy cities H5892 have become a wilderness;

Zion has become a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:6 -

“A voice of rumbling from the city H5892, a voice from the temple,

The voice of Yahweh who is paying recompense to His enemies.

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