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)


  • Exodus 1:11 - Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens And they built cities treasure for Pharaoh Pithom and Raamses

  • Exodus 9:29 - said And Moses unto him As soon as I am gone out of the city I will spread abroad my hands is the LORD'S and the thunder shall cease neither shall there be any more hail that thou mayest know is the LORD'S how that the earth

  • Exodus 9:33 - went out And Moses from Pharaoh of the city and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD ceased and the thunders and hail and the rain was not poured upon the earth

  • Ezekiel 4:1 - Thou also son of man take thee a tile and lay it before thee and pourtray upon it the city even Jerusalem

  • Ezekiel 4:3 - Moreover take pan of iron and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city and set thy face against it and it shall be besieged and thou shalt lay siege against it This shall be a sign to the house of Israel

  • Ezekiel 5:2 - a third part with fire Thou shalt burn in the midst of the city are fulfilled when the days of the siege and thou shalt take a third part and smite a sword about a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind a sword and I will draw out after

  • Ezekiel 6:6 - In all your dwellingplaces the cities may be laid waste and the high places shall be desolate may be laid waste and made desolate that your altars may be broken and cease and your idols may be cut down and your images may be abolished and your works

  • Ezekiel 7:15 - The sword is without and pestilence and the famine within he that is in the field The sword shall die and he that is in the city and the famine and pestilence shall devour

  • Ezekiel 7:23 - Make a chain for the land is full crimes of bloody and the city is full of violence

  • Ezekiel 9:1 - He cried also in mine ears voice with a loud saying to draw near Cause them that have charge over the city even every man weapon with his destroying in his hand

  • Ezekiel 9:4 - said And the LORD unto him Go through in the midst of the city in the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst

  • Ezekiel 9:5 - And to the others he said in mine hearing Go him through the city ye after and smite spare let not your eye neither have ye pity

  • Ezekiel 9:7 - And he said unto them Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain And they went forth And they went forth and slew in the city

  • Ezekiel 9:9 - Then said he unto me The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah great is exceeding is exceeding full and the land of blood and the city full of perverseness Then said hath forsaken The LORD and the land The LORD seeth

  • Ezekiel 10:2 - And he spake unto the man clothed with linen And he spake And he went in between the wheels even under the cherub and fill thine hand with coals of fire between even under the cherub and scatter them over the city And he went in in my sight

  • Ezekiel 11:2 - Then said he unto me Son of man that devise mischief and give counsel wicked in this city

  • Ezekiel 11:6 - Ye have multiplied thereof with the slain in this city and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain

  • Ezekiel 11:23 - went up And the glory of the LORD from the midst of the city and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city

  • Ezekiel 12:20 - And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste and the land shall be desolate and ye shall know that I am the LORD

  • Ezekiel 17:4 - the top of his young twigs He cropped off and carried it into a land of traffick it in a city of merchants he set