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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 the LORD; “and they will come and place, each one of them, his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls around, and against all the cities H5892 of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:18 - “Now behold, I have made you today like a fortified city H5892 and like a pillar of iron and walls of bronze against the whole land, to the kings of Judah, to its leaders, to its priests, and to the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 -

“The young lions have roared at him,

They have [fn]roared loudly.

And they have made his land a waste;

His cities H5892 have been destroyed, 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 of your [fn]trouble!

For as many as the number of your cities H5892

Are your gods, Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:14 -

‘Return, you faithless sons,’ declares the LORD;

‘For I am a master to you,

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

And bring you to Zion.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:5 -

Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say,

“Blow the trumpet in the land;

Cry aloud and say,

‘Assemble, and let’s 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 waste.

Your cities H5892 will be ruins,

Without an inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 -

“Report it to the nations, now!

Proclaim to Jerusalem,

[fn]Enemies are coming from a remote country,

And they raise their voices against the cities H5892 of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 -

I looked, and behold, [fn]the fruitful land was a wilderness,

And all its cities H5892 were pulled down

Before the LORD, before His fierce anger.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:29 -

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

They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks;

Every city H5892 is abandoned,

And no one lives in them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 -

Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them,

A wolf of the deserts will destroy them,

A leopard is watching their cities H5892.

Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces,

Because their wrongdoings are many,

Their apostasies are numerous.

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 your fortified cities H5892, in which you trust, with the sword.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:6 -

For this is what the LORD of armies says:

“Cut down her trees

And pile up an assault ramp against Jerusalem.

This is the city H5892 to be punished,

In whose midst there is only oppression.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:17 - “Do you not see what they are doing in the cities H5892 of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - “Then I will eliminate 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 groom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a site of ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14 -

Why are we sitting still?

Assemble yourselves, and let’s go into the fortified cities H5892

And perish there,

For the LORD our God has doomed us

And given us poisoned water to drink,

Because we have sinned against the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:16 -

From Dan there is heard the snorting of his horses;

At the sound of the neighing of his stallions

The whole land quakes;

For they come and devour the land and 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 is coming

A great roar from the land of the north

To make the cities H5892 of Judah

A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:6 -

And the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities H5892 of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant and do them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:12 - “Then the cities H5892 of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they [fn]burn incense, but they certainly will not save them in the time of their disaster.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:13 - “For your gods are [fn]as many as your cities H5892, Judah; and [fn]as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars for [fn]burning incense to Baal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:19 -

The cities H5892 of the Negev have been locked up,

And there is no one to open them;

All Judah has been taken into exile,

Wholly taken into exile.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:18 -

‘If I go out to the country,

There are those killed by the sword!

Or if I enter the city H5892,

There are diseases from famine!

For both prophet and priest

Have wandered around 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 young man,

A destroyer at noon;

I will suddenly bring down on her

Shock H5892 and horror.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:24 -

“But it will come about, if you give your attention to Me,” declares the LORD, “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 officials sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city H5892 will be inhabited forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:26 - “They will come in from the cities H5892 of Judah and from the areas surrounding Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, 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 the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - “I will also turn this city H5892 into an object of horror and [fn]hissing; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and [fn]hiss because of all its [fn]disasters.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:11 - and say to them, ‘This is what the LORD of armies says: “To the same extent I will break this people and this city H5892, just as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury their dead in Topheth, [fn]because there is no other place for burial.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:12 - “This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants,” declares the LORD, “so as to make this city H5892 like Topheth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:15 - “This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Behold, I am going to bring on this city H5892 and all its towns H5892 the entire disaster that I have declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to listen to My words.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:5 - ‘I will also give all the wealth of this city H5892, all its produce and all its valuable things—even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will hand over to their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away, and bring them to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 -

But may that man be like the cities H5892

Which the LORD overthrew without [fn]relenting,

And may he hear an outcry in the morning

And [fn]an alarm for war at noon;

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I am going to turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you are making war against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the middle of this city H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:6 - “I will also strike the inhabitants of this city H5892, both the people and the animals; they will die of a great plague.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - “Then afterward,” declares the LORD, “I will hand Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, that is, those who survive in this city H5892 from the plague, the sword, and the famine, over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to their enemies, and to those who seek their lives; and he will strike and kill them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them nor have pity nor compassion.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:9 - Anyone who stays in this city H5892 will die by the sword, by famine, or by plague; but anyone who leaves and goes over to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:10 - “For I have set My face against this city H5892 for harm and not for good,” declares the LORD. “It will be handed over to the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6 - For this is what the LORD says 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 a wilderness,

Cities H5892 that 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 the LORD done this to this great city H5892?’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:39 - “Therefore behold, I will certainly forget you and thrust you away from My presence, along with the city H5892 which I gave you and your fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - To Jerusalem and the cities H5892 of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects of horror, [fn]hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - “For behold, I am beginning to inflict disaster on this city H5892 which is called by My name, so should you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares the LORD of armies.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:2 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘Stand in the courtyard of the LORD’S house, and speak to all the cities H5892 of Judah who have come to worship in the LORD’S house all the words that I have commanded you to speak to them. Do not omit a word!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6 - then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city H5892 a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - “Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh and this city H5892 will be in ruins, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered to Jeremiah at the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:11 - Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the officials and to all the people, saying, “A death sentence for this man! For he has prophesied against this city H5892, just as you have heard with your own ears!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:12 -

Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and to all the people, saying, “The LORD 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 its inhabitants; for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words [fn]so that you hear them.”

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