Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H5892: עִיר (ʻîyr) Definition

Strong's number
H5892
Lemma
עִיר
Transliteration
ʻîyr
Pronunciation
eer
Strong's definition
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. or (in the plural) עָר; or עָיַר; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 (עוּר)

933 instances of the word עִיר ʻîyr (H5892)


  • 2 Chronicles 33:14 - Now after this he built a wall without cities of David on the west side of Gihon in the valley even to the entering in gate at the fish and compassed about Ophel and raised it up a very great height and put captains of war cities in all the fenced of Judah

  • 2 Chronicles 33:15 - And he took away gods the strange and the idol of the house of the LORD and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem and cast them out of the city

  • 2 Chronicles 34:6 - And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon even unto Naphtali with their mattocks round about

  • 2 Chronicles 34:8 - year Now in the eighteenth of his reign when he had purged the land and the house he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah and Maaseiah the governor of the city and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder to repair and the house of the LORD his God

  • 2 Kings 2:19 - said of the city unto Elisha Behold I pray thee the situation of the city is pleasant as my lord seeth but the water is naught and the ground barren

  • 2 Kings 2:23 - And he went up from thence unto Bethel And he went up by the way children little there came forth out of the city and mocked him and said And he went up thou bald head And he went up thou bald head

  • 2 Kings 3:19 - And ye shall smite city every fenced city and every choice tree every good and shall fell all wells of water and stop piece every good and mar of land with stones

  • 2 Kings 3:25 - the cities And they beat down piece all the good of land cast every man his stone and filled all the wells of water it and they stopped trees all the good and felled left his stone only in Kirharaseth went about thereof howbeit the slingers it and smote

  • 2 Kings 6:14 - Therefore sent he thither horses and chariots host and a great and they came by night about the city

  • 2 Kings 6:15 - early And when the servant of the man of God was risen and gone forth behold an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots said And his servant unto him Alas my master how shall we do

  • 2 Kings 6:19 - said And Elisha unto them This is not the way neither is this the city you to the man whom ye seek them to Samaria

  • 2 Kings 7:4 - If we say We will enter into the city then the famine into the city and if they kill there and if we sit still and if they kill and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians if they save us alive if they save us alive and if they kill and if they kill

  • 2 Kings 7:10 - So they came and called unto the porter of the city and they told them saying So they came to the camp of the Syrians and behold there was no man there neither voice of man but horses tied and asses tied and the tents

  • 2 Kings 7:12 - arose And the king in the night and said unto his servants I will now shew have done you what the Syrians to us They know that we be hungry When they come out of the camp to hide themselves in the field and said When they come out into the city we shall catch them alive into the city and get

  • 2 Kings 8:24 - slept And Joram with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David reigned and Ahaziah his son

  • 2 Kings 9:15 - was returned Joram But king to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds had given which the Syrians him when he fought with Hazael But king of Syria said And Jehu If it be your minds then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to tell in Jezreel

  • 2 Kings 9:28 - carried And his servants him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David

  • 2 Kings 10:2 - cometh Now as soon as this letter sons to you seeing your master's are with you and there are with you chariots and horses city a fenced also and armour

  • 2 Kings 10:5 - of the children sent And he that was over the house and he that was over the city the elders also and the bringers up to Jehu all that thou shalt bid We are thy servants all that thou shalt bid and will do king us we will not make any thou that which is good in thine eyes and will do

  • 2 Kings 10:6 - Then he wrote a letter the second time to them saying unto my voice If ye be mine and if ye will hearken take ye the heads persons sons your master's and come this time by to morrow to me to Jezreel sons Now the king's being seventy persons were with the great men of the city which brought them up