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)
Ezra 3:1 - was come month And when the seventh and the children of Israel were in the cities gathered themselves together the people man as one to Jerusalem
Ezra 10:14 - stand Let now our rulers of all the congregation in our cities and let all them which have taken wives strange come times at appointed and with them the elders in our cities in our cities and the judges be turned thereof until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter
Genesis 4:17 - knew And Cain his wife and she conceived and bare Enoch and he builded a city and called after the name a city after the name of his son Enoch
Genesis 10:11 - Out of that land went forth Asshur and builded Nineveh Rehoboth and the city and Calah
Genesis 10:12 - And Resen between Nineveh and Calah city the same is a great
Genesis 11:4 - And they said Go to let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth
Genesis 11:5 - came down And the LORD to see the city and the tower builded which the children of men
Genesis 11:8 - scattered them abroad So the LORD from thence upon the face of all the earth and they left off to build the city
Genesis 13:12 - Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom
Genesis 18:24 - Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for fifty righteous that are therein
Genesis 18:26 - said And the LORD If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city then I will spare all the place
Genesis 18:28 - Peradventure there shall lack of the fifty righteous and five I will not destroy and five all the city And he said I will not destroy If I find there forty and five
Genesis 19:4 - But before they lay down even the men of the city even the men of Sodom compassed the house and young both old all the people from every quarter
Genesis 19:12 - said unto Lot any Hast thou here besides son in law and thy sons and thy daughters and whatsoever thou hast in the city bring them out of this place
Genesis 19:14 - get you out And Lot and spake his sons in law which married his daughters and said Up get you out of this place will destroy for the LORD this city But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law
Genesis 19:15 - And when the morning arose hastened then the angels Lot saying Arise take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city
Genesis 19:16 - And while he lingered laid hold and upon the hand and upon the hand of his wife and upon the hand of his two daughters being merciful the LORD unto him and they brought him forth and set him without the city
Genesis 19:20 - Behold now this city is near to flee unto and it is a little one Oh let me escape is a little one unto and it shall live and my soul
Genesis 19:21 - And he said unto him See I have accepted thee concerning this thing also that I will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken
Genesis 19:22 - Haste thee escape thither for I cannot do any thing till thou be come was called thither Therefore the name of the city Zoar