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

Page 1 / 2 (Eze 4:1–Eze 48:21)

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:1 -

“Now as for you, son of man, get yourself a brick, set it before you, and inscribe a city H5892 on it, Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:3 - “Now as for you, get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city H5892, and establish your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:2 - “One-third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city H5892 when the days of the siege are fulfilled. Then you shall take one-third and strike it with the sword all around [fn]the city, and one-third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - “In all your places of habitation, cities H5892 will become waste, and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and [fn]desolate, your idols may be broken and cease, your incense altars may be cut in pieces, and your works may be blotted out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15 - ‘The sword is outside, and the plague and the famine are inside. He who is in the field will die by the sword; famine and the plague will also devour those in the city H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:23 -

‘Make the chain, for the land is full of judgments that promote bloodshed, and the city H5892 is full of violence.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1 -

Then He cried out in my hearing with a loud voice saying, “Draw near, [fn]O executioners of the city H5892, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:4 - Yahweh said to him, “Go through the midst of the city H5892, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being done in its midst.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5 - But to the others He said in my hearing, “Go through the city H5892 after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - And He said to them, “Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” Thus they went out and struck down the people in the city H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 -

Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with bloodshed, and the city H5892 is full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh does not see!’

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2 - And He spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, “Enter between the whirling wheels under the [fn]cherubim and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city H5892.” And he entered in my sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:2 - He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise wickedness and give evil counsel in this city H5892,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:6 - “You have multiplied your slain in this city H5892, and you have filled its streets with [fn]them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:23 - The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city H5892 and stood over the mountain which is east of the city H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:20 - “The inhabited cities H5892 will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:4 - “He plucked off the topmost of its young twigs and brought it to a land of merchants; he set it in a city H5892 of traders.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7 -

‘He [fn]knew how to destroy their [fn]fortified towers

And laid waste their cities H5892;

And the land was in desolation, as well as its fullness

Because of the sound of his roaring.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - “Now as for you, son of man, [fn]make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And [fn]make a signpost; [fn]make it at the head of the way to the city H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:2 - “Now as for you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the city H5892 of blood? Then you shall cause her to know all her abominations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3 - “And you shall say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “A city H5892 shedding blood in her midst, so that her time will come; and she makes idols against herself for defilement!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:6 -

‘Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh,

“Woe to the city H5892 of blood,

To the pot in which there is rust

And whose rust has not gone out of it!

Take out of it piece after piece,

[fn]Without making a choice.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:9 -

‘Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh,

“Woe to the city H5892 of blood!

I also will make the pile great.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:9 - therefore, behold, I am going to open the flank of Moab by its cities H5892, by its cities H5892 which are on its [fn]frontiers, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:10 - “Because of the abundance of his horses, the fine dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of horsemen and [fn]wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city H5892 that is breached.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17 - “They will take up a lamentation over you and say to you,

‘How you have perished, O inhabited one,

From the seas, O city H5892 that was praised,

Which was strong on the sea,

She and her inhabitants,

Who [fn]imposed [fn]her terror

On all her inhabitants!

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 -

For thus says Lord Yahweh, “When I make you a city H5892 laid waste, like the cities H5892 which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - “So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities H5892, in the midst of cities H5892 that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 -

“They will be desolate

In the midst of the desolated lands;

And her cities H5892 will be

In the midst of the cities H5892 laid waste.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:21 -

Now it happened in the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth of the tenth month, that those who escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city H5892 has been struck down.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4 -

“I will lay waste your cities H5892,

And you will become a desolation.

Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9 - “I will make you an everlasting desolation, and your cities H5892 will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4 - ‘Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of Lord Yahweh. Thus says Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities H5892 which have become plunder and objects of scoffing to the rest of the nations which are round about,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - ‘I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities H5892 will be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 -

‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities H5892 to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - “And they will say, ‘This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate, and [fn]ruined cities H5892 are fortified and inhabited.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38 - “Like the flock for holy offerings, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed times, so will the waste cities H5892 be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:9 -

“Then those who inhabit the cities H5892 of Israel will go out and make fires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and large shields, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears; and for seven years they will make fires of them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:16 - “And even the name of the city H5892 will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:1 -

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city H5892 was struck down, on that same day the hand of Yahweh was upon me, and He brought me there.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:2 - In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and caused me to rest on a very high mountain, and on it to the south there was a structure like a city H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:3 - And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, like the vision which I saw when [fn]He came to bring the city H5892 to ruin. And the visions were like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:6 -

“And you shall give the city H5892 possession of an area [fn]5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, alongside the contribution of the holy portion; it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 -

“Now the prince shall have land on either side of the holy contribution and the city’s H5892 possession of land, adjacent to the holy contribution and the city’s H5892 possession of land, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east, and in length comparable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:15 -

“And the remainder, [fn]5,000 cubits in width and 25,000 [fn]in length, shall be for common use for the city H5892, for places of habitation, and for [fn]open spaces; and the city H5892 shall be in its midst.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:17 - “And the city H5892 shall have [fn]open spaces: on the north [fn]250 cubits, on the south 250 cubits, on the east 250 cubits, and on the west 250 cubits.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:18 - “And the remainder of the length alongside the holy contribution shall be 10,000 cubits toward the east and 10,000 toward the west; and it shall be [fn]alongside the holy contribution. And its produce shall be food for the workers of the city H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:19 - “The workers of the city H5892, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:20 - “The whole contribution shall be 25,000 by 25,000 cubits; you shall contribute the holy contribution, a [fn]square, with the city’s H5892 possession of land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:21 -

“And the remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy contribution and of the city’s H5892 possession of land; in front of the 25,000 cubits of the contribution toward the east border and westward in front of the 25,000 toward the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. And the holy contribution and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it.


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