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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 157 times in 128 verses in 'Jos' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Jos 3:16–Jos 13:21)

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - then the waters which were [fn]flowing down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a great distance away at Adam, the city H5892 that is beside Zarethan; and those which were [fn]flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:3 - “And you shall march around the city H5892, all the men of war circling the city H5892 once. You shall do so for six days.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:4 - “Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city H5892 seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:5 - “It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city H5892 will fall down [fn]flat, and the people shall go up, everyone [fn]straight ahead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:7 - Then [fn]he said to the people, “Go forward and march around the city H5892, and the armed men shall go on ahead of the ark of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:11 - So he had the ark of the LORD [fn]taken around the city H5892, circling it once; then they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:14 - So the second day they marched around the city H5892 once and returned to the camp; they did the same for six days.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:15 -

Then on the seventh day they got up early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city H5892 in the same way seven times; only on that day did they march around the city H5892 seven times.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:16 - And at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17 - “But the city H5892 shall be designated for [fn]destruction, it and everything that is in it belongs to the LORD; only Rahab the prostitute [fn]and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.
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]flat, so that the people went up into the city H5892, everyone straight [fn]ahead, and they took the city H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - They [fn]utterly destroyed everything in the city H5892, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:24 - Then they burned the city H5892 with fire, and all that was in it. Only the silver and gold, and the articles of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the [fn]house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:26 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:1 -

Now the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not fear or be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you. Arise, go up to Ai; see, I have handed over to you the king of Ai, his people, his city H5892, and his land.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - “You shall do to Ai and its king just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall take only its spoils and its cattle as plunder for yourselves. [fn]Set an ambush for the city H5892 behind it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:4 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:5 - “Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city H5892. And when they come out to meet us as they did the first time, we will flee before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:6 - “They will come out after us until we have lured them away from the city H5892, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us just as they did the first time.’ So we will flee before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:7 - “Then you shall rise from your ambush and take possession of the city H5892, for the LORD your God will hand it over to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:8 - “Then it will be when you have seized the city H5892, that you shall set the city H5892 on fire. You shall do it in accordance with the word of the LORD. See, I have commanded you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - Then all the people of war who were with him went up and approached, and arrived in front of the city H5892; and they camped on the north side of Ai. And there was a valley between him and Ai.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - Then he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the [fn]city H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13 - So they stationed 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 spent that night in the midst of the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - And it came about, when the king of Ai saw them, that the men of the city H5892 hurried and got 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.
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 lured away from the city H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel, [fn]but they had all gone out after Israel, and they left the city H5892 [fn]unguarded and pursued Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:18 -

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Reach out with the sword that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will hand it over to you.” So Joshua reached out with the sword that was in his hand toward the city H5892.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:19 - Then the men in ambush rose quickly from their place, and when he had reached out with his hand, they ran and entered the city H5892 and captured it, and they quickly set the city H5892 on fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - When the men of Ai turned [fn]back and looked, 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city H5892 and that the smoke of the city H5892 ascended, they turned back and [fn]killed the men of Ai.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:22 - [fn]The others came out from the city H5892 to confront them, so that they were trapped in the midst of Israel, [fn]some on this side and some on that side; and they [fn]killed them until there was not one [fn]left who escaped or survived.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - Israel took only the cattle and the spoils of that city H5892 as plunder for themselves, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He had commanded Joshua.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And he hanged the king of Ai on [fn]a tree until evening; but at sunset Joshua gave the command and they took his body down from [fn]the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city H5892 gate, and erected over it a large heap of stones that stands to this day.
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, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - that [fn]he feared greatly 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:19 - but do not stay there yourselves; pursue your enemies and [fn]attack them from behind. Do not allow them to enter their cities H5892, for the LORD your God has handed them over to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - It came about when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them down in a very great defeat, until they were destroyed, and the survivors of them who escaped [fn]had entered the fortified cities H5892,
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, according to all that he had done to Eglon. And he [fn]utterly destroyed it and every person who was in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:39 - He captured it and its king and all its cities H5892, and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and [fn]utterly destroyed every person who was in it. He left no survivor. 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:12 - Joshua captured all the cities H5892 of these kings, and all their kings; and he struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed them, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:13 - However, Israel did not burn any cities H5892 that stood on their mounds, except Hazor alone, which Joshua burned.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - And all the spoils of these cities H5892 and the cattle, the sons of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every person with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left no one breathing.
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:21 -

Then Joshua came at that time and eliminated the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and all the hill country of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities H5892.

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;
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;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:16 - 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;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:17 - Heshbon and all its cities H5892 which are on the plain: Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,
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, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the leaders of Sihon, who lived in the land.

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