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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 138 times in 118 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Jer 1:15–Jer 26:15)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:15 - “For, behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” declares Yahweh; “and they will come, and each one of them will put his throne at the opening of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls round about and against all the cities H5892 of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:18 - “Now behold, I have given you today as a fortified city H5892 and as a pillar of iron and as walls of bronze against the whole land, to the kings of Judah, to its princes, to its priests, and to the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 -

“The young lions have roared at him;

They have given forth their voice.

And they have made his land a desolation;

His cities H5892 have been turned into ruin, without inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:28 -

“But where are your gods

Which you made for yourself?

Let them arise, if they can save you

In the time when your evil comes;

For according to the number of your cities H5892

Are your gods, O Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:14 -

[fn]Return, O faithless sons,’ declares Yahweh;

‘For I am a master to you,

And I will take you one from a city H5892 and two from a family,

And I will bring you to Zion.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:5 -

Declare in Judah and make it heard in Jerusalem and say,

“Blow the trumpet in the land;

Call out, make your voice full, and say,

‘Gather yourselves, and let us go

Into the fortified cities H5892.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 -

“A lion has gone up from his thicket,

And a destroyer of nations has set out;

He has gone out from his place

To make your land a desolation.

Your cities H5892 will be turned into ruins

Without inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 -

“Make mention of it to the nations, saying, ‘Behold!’

Make it heard over Jerusalem,

‘Besiegers come from a far country,

And give forth their voices against the cities H5892 of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 -

I saw, and behold, [fn]the fruitful orchard was a wilderness,

And all its cities H5892 were torn down

Before Yahweh, before His burning anger.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:29 -

At the sound of the horseman and bowman every city H5892 flees;

They go into the thickets and climb up among the rocks;

Every city H5892 is forsaken,

And no man inhabits them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 -

Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down;

A wolf of the deserts will devastate them;

A leopard is watching their cities H5892.

Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces

Because their transgressions are many;

Their acts of faithlessness are mighty.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17 -

“They will devour your harvest and your food;

They will devour your sons and your daughters;

They will devour your flocks and your herds;

They will devour your vines and your fig trees;

They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities H5892 in which you trust.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:6 -

For thus says Yahweh of hosts,

“Cut down her trees

And cast up a siege against Jerusalem.

This is the city H5892 to be punished,

In whose midst there is only oppression.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:17 - “Are you not seeing what they are doing in the cities H5892 of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - “Then I will make to cease from the cities H5892 of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land will become a waste place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14 -

Why are we sitting still?

Gather yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities H5892

And let us be silent there

Because Yahweh our God has silenced us

And given us [fn]poisoned water to drink,

For we have sinned against Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:16 -

From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses;

At the sound of the neighing of his valiant steeds

The whole land quakes;

And they come and devour the land as well as its fullness,

The city H5892 and its inhabitants.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 -

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,

A haunt of jackals;

And I will make the cities H5892 of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 -

The sound of a report! Behold, it comes

A great quaking out of the land of the north

To make the cities H5892 of Judah

A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:6 -

And Yahweh said to me, “Call out all these words in the cities H5892 of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant so that you will do them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:12 - “Then the cities H5892 of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surely will not save them in the time of their calamity.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:13 - “For your gods are the number of your cities H5892, O Judah; and the number of the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:19 -

The cities H5892 of the Negev have been closed up,

And there is no one to open them;

All Judah has been taken away into exile,

Wholly taken away into exile.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:18 -

‘If I go out to the field,

Behold, those [fn]slain with the sword!

Or if I enter the city H5892,

Behold, diseases of famine!

For both prophet and priest

Have gone around as merchants in the land that they do not know.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8 -

“Their widows will be more numerous before Me

Than the sand of the seas;

I will bring against them, against the mother of a choice man,

A destroyer at noonday;

I will suddenly bring down on her

Anguish H5892 and terror.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:24 -

“But it will be, if you listen carefully to Me,” declares Yahweh, “to bring no load in through the gates of this city H5892 on the sabbath day, but to keep the sabbath day holy by doing no work on it,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:25 - then there will come in through the gates of this city H5892 kings and princes [fn]sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city H5892 will be inhabited forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:26 - “And they will come in from the cities H5892 of Judah and from all around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the [fn]Shephelah, from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to the house of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - “I will also make this city H5892 an object of horror and of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be [fn]horrified and hiss because of all its [fn]slaughtering.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:11 - and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “Just so will I break this people and this city H5892, even as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury in Topheth [fn]because there is no other place for burial.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:12 - “This is what I will do to this place and its inhabitants,” declares Yahweh, “so as to make this city H5892 like Topheth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:15 - “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city H5892 and all its towns H5892 the entire calamity that I have spoken against it because they have stiffened their necks so as not to hear My words.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:5 - ‘I will also give over all the wealth of this city H5892, all the fruit of its labor, and all its precious things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away, and bring them to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 -

But let that man be like the cities H5892

Which Yahweh overthrew without [fn]relenting,

And let him hear an outcry in the morning

And a [fn]shout of war at noon,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the center of this city H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:6 - “I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city H5892, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - “Then afterwards,” declares Yahweh, “I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who remain in this city H5892 from the pestilence, the sword, and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword. He will not show pity on them nor spare nor have compassion.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:9 - “He who inhabits this city H5892 will die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as spoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:10 - “For I have set My face against this city H5892 for [fn]evil and not for good,” declares Yahweh. “It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6 - For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah:

“You are like Gilead to Me,

Like the summit of Lebanon;

Yet most assuredly I will make you like a wilderness,

Like cities H5892 which are not inhabited.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:8 -

“Many nations will pass by this city H5892; and they will say to one another, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city H5892?’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:39 - “Therefore behold, I will surely forget you and abandon you, along with the city H5892 which I gave you and your fathers, so that you are out of My presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem and the cities H5892 of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a waste place, an object of horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - “For behold, I am beginning to bring evil against this city H5892 which is called by My name. But shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for I am calling for a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares Yahweh of hosts.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:2 - “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Stand in the court of the house of Yahweh, and you shall speak to all the cities H5892 of Judah who have come to worship in the house of Yahweh all the words that I have commanded you to speak to them. Do not take away a word!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6 - then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city H5892 I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - “Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city H5892 will be laid waste, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered about Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:11 - Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the officials and to all the people, saying, “A judgment of death for this man! For he has prophesied against this city H5892 as you have heard in your hearing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:12 -

Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and to all the people, saying, “Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city H5892 all the words that you have heard.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:15 - “Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves and on this city H5892 and on its inhabitants; for truly Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”

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