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)


  • 1 Chronicles 11:5 - said And the inhabitants of Jebus hither Nevertheless David Thou shalt not come took hither Nevertheless David the castle of Zion which is the city hither Nevertheless David

  • 1 Chronicles 11:7 - dwelt And David in the castle therefore they called it the city And David

  • 1 Chronicles 11:8 - And he built of the city round about even from Millo round about and Joab repaired the rest of the city

  • 1 Chronicles 13:2 - said And David unto all the congregation of Israel If it seem good unto you and that it be of the LORD our God abroad let us send unto our brethren every where that are left in all the land of Israel and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs that they may gather

  • 1 Chronicles 13:13 - brought So David not the ark home to himself to the city So David but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite

  • 1 Chronicles 15:1 - And David made him houses in the city of David and prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched for it a tent

  • 1 Chronicles 15:29 - And it came to pass as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city David that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing and she despised him in her heart

  • 1 Chronicles 18:8 - Likewise from Tibhath and from Chun cities of Hadarezer brought David brass much very made wherewith Solomon sea brass and the pillars and the vessels brass

  • 1 Chronicles 19:7 - So they hired and two thirty thousand chariots and the king of Maachah and his people and came and pitched before Medeba And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities and came to battle

  • 1 Chronicles 19:9 - came out And the children of Ammon in array and put the battle before the gate of the city and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field

  • 1 Chronicles 19:13 - Be of good courage Be of good courage for our people and for the cities of our God and let the LORD that which is good in his sight do

  • 1 Chronicles 19:15 - And when the children of Ammon saw they likewise fled that the Syrians they likewise fled before Abishai his brother and entered into the city and entered Then Joab to Jerusalem

  • 1 Chronicles 20:2 - took And David the crown of their king from off his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold stones and there were precious from off his head And David spoil out of the city and he brought much also exceeding

  • 1 Chronicles 20:3 - and all the people And he brought out that were in it and cut and with axes and with harrows of iron and with axes Even so dealt And David with all the cities of the children of Ammon returned And David and all the people to Jerusalem

  • 1 Chronicles 27:25 - and over the storehouses And over the king's was Azmaveth the son of Adiel and over the storehouses in the fields in the cities and in the villages and in the castles was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah

  • 1 Kings 2:10 - slept So David with his fathers and was buried in the city So David

  • 1 Kings 3:1 - made affinity And Solomon Pharaoh's king of Egypt and took daughter Pharaoh's and brought her into the city of David until he had made an end of building and the house and the house of the LORD and the wall of Jerusalem round about

  • 1 Kings 4:13 - The son of Geber in Ramothgilead to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh in Ramothgilead to him also pertained the region of Argob which is in Bashan threescore cities great with walls bars and brasen

  • 1 Kings 8:1 - assembled Solomon the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel unto king Solomon in Jerusalem that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David which is Zion

  • 1 Kings 8:16 - Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt I chose no city out of all the tribes Israel to build an house that my ~ I chose David my people Israel