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)
2 Samuel 15:24 - And lo Zadok also and all the Levites were with him bearing the ark of the covenant of God and they set down the ark of God went up and Abiathar had done until all the people passing out of the city
2 Samuel 15:25 - said And the king unto Zadok Carry back the ark of God into the city if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD Carry back and shew me both it and his habitation
2 Samuel 15:27 - said The king also unto Zadok the priest Art not thou a seer return into the city in peace with you Ahimaaz sons and Jonathan sons of Abiathar and your two sons
2 Samuel 15:34 - to the city But if thou return and say unto Absalom I will be thy servant O king I will be thy servant as I have been thy father's hitherto I will be thy servant then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel
2 Samuel 15:37 - came So Hushai friend David's into the city and Absalom came into Jerusalem
2 Samuel 17:13 - Moreover if into a city he be gotten bring then shall all Israel into a city ropes and we will draw it into the river found until there be not one small stone
2 Samuel 17:17 - Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel went and a wench and told went and told king David for they might not be seen to come into the city
2 Samuel 17:23 - And when Ahithophel saw was not followed that his counsel he saddled his ass and arose and gat him home and put his household to his city in order and put his household and hanged himself and died and was buried in the sepulchre of his father
2 Samuel 18:3 - answered But the people Thou shalt not go forth away away they will not care of us die for us neither if half they will not care for us but now thou art worth ten thousand of us therefore now it is better us out of the city that thou succour
2 Samuel 19:3 - steal away And the people that day gat into the city steal away And the people being ashamed when they flee in battle
2 Samuel 19:37 - I pray thee turn back again But behold thy servant that I may die in mine own city and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother But behold thy servant Chimham let him go over with my lord the king and do to him what shall seem good
2 Samuel 20:6 - said And David to Abishai do us more harm Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri than did Absalom take servants thou thy lord's and pursue after him lest he get cities him fenced and escape us
2 Samuel 20:15 - And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah and they cast up a bank against the city and it stood in the trench and all the people that were with Joab battered to throw it down the wall
2 Samuel 20:16 - Then cried woman a wise out of the city Hear Hear say I pray you unto Joab Come near hither that I may speak
2 Samuel 20:19 - I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD
2 Samuel 20:21 - The matter is not so but a man of mount Ephraim Sheba the son of Bichri by name hath lifted up his hand against the king even against David deliver from the city said And the woman unto Joab Behold his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall
2 Samuel 20:22 - went Then the woman unto all the people in her wisdom And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and cast And Joab And he blew a trumpet and they retired from the city every man to his tent And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king
2 Samuel 24:5 - And they passed over Jordan and pitched in Aroer on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad and toward Jazer
2 Samuel 24:7 - And came to the strong hold of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites and they went out to the south of Judah even to Beersheba
Amos 3:6 - be blown Shall a trumpet in a city and the people not be afraid shall there be evil in a city and the LORD hath not done