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)


  • Deuteronomy 25:8 - shall call Then the elders of his city him and speak unto him and if he stand to it and say I like not to take

  • Deuteronomy 28:3 - Blessed shalt thou be in the city Blessed shalt thou be in the field

  • Deuteronomy 28:16 - Cursed shalt thou be in the city Cursed shalt thou be in the field

  • Deuteronomy 34:3 - And the south and the plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees unto Zoar

  • Ecclesiastes 7:19 - Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city

  • Ecclesiastes 8:10 - And so I saw the wicked buried who had come from the place of the holy and gone and they were forgotten in the city And so where they had so done this is also vanity

  • Ecclesiastes 9:14 - city There was a little men and few within it and there came king a great against it and besieged it and built bulwarks a great

  • Ecclesiastes 9:15 - Now there was found man in it a poor wise delivered the city and he by his wisdom yet no man remembered man in it a poor

  • Ecclesiastes 10:15 - The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them because he knoweth to the city

  • Esther 3:15 - The posts went out being hastened commandment And the king and the decree was given Shushan the palace And the king and Haman sat down to drink but the city Shushan was perplexed

  • Esther 4:1 - Mordecai perceived all that was done rent Mordecai his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes and went out into the midst of the city and cried cry with a loud and a bitter

  • Esther 4:6 - went forth So Hatach to Mordecai unto the street of the city which was before gate the king's

  • Esther 6:9 - be delivered And let this apparel and horse to the hand of one princes of the king's most noble that they may array of one of the king's delighteth to honour and bring and horse through the street of the city and proclaim before him Thus shall it be done of one of the king's delighteth to honour

  • Esther 6:11 - Then took Haman the apparel and the horse and arrayed Mordecai and brought him on horseback through the street of the city and proclaimed before him Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour

  • Esther 8:11 - granted Wherein the king the Jews which were in every city which were in every city to gather themselves together and to stand for their life to destroy to slay and to cause to perish all the power of the people and province that would assault them both little ones and women and to take the spoil of them for a prey

  • Esther 8:15 - And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king apparel in royal of blue and white crown of gold and with a great and with a garment of fine linen and purple and the city of Shushan rejoiced

  • Esther 8:17 - And in every province And in every province and in every city and in every city whithersoever commandment the king's and his decree came had joy and gladness of the Jews a feast day and a good And many of the people of the land became Jews fell for the fear of the Jews

  • Esther 9:2 - gathered themselves together The Jews in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus to lay hand on such as sought their hurt and no man could withstand them of them fell for the fear upon all people

  • Esther 9:19 - Therefore the Jews of the villages that dwelt towns in the unwalled made day the fourteenth of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting day and a good and of sending portions one to another

  • Esther 9:28 - And that these days should be remembered and kept every generation every generation every family every family every province every province and every city and every city And that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews nor the memorial of them perish from their seed