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)


  • Jeremiah 19:12 - Thus will I do unto this place saith the LORD and to the inhabitants thereof and even make this city as Tophet

  • Jeremiah 19:15 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will bring and upon all her towns and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it because they have hardened their necks that they might not hear my words

  • Jeremiah 20:5 - Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city and all the labours thereof and all the precious things thereof and all the treasures of the kings of Judah Moreover I will deliver into the hand of their enemies which shall spoil them and take them and carry them to Babylon

  • Jeremiah 20:16 - And let that man be as the cities overthrew which the LORD and repented not and let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noontide

  • Jeremiah 21:4 - Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Behold I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans which besiege you without the walls and I will assemble them into the midst of this city

  • Jeremiah 21:6 - And I will smite the inhabitants of this city both man and beast pestilence of a great they shall die

  • Jeremiah 21:7 - And afterward saith the LORD I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people and such as are left in this city from the pestilence from the sword and from the famine and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those that seek their life and he shall smite them with the edge from the sword he shall not spare them neither have pity nor have mercy

  • Jeremiah 21:9 - He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence but he that goeth out and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you he shall live and his life shall be unto him for a prey

  • Jeremiah 21:10 - For I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good saith the LORD into the hand of the king of Babylon it shall be given and he shall burn it with fire

  • Jeremiah 22:6 - For thus saith the LORD house unto the king's of Judah Thou art Gilead unto me and the head of Lebanon yet surely I will make thee a wilderness and cities which are not inhabited

  • Jeremiah 22:8 - shall pass nations And many by this city and they shall say every man to his neighbour done Wherefore hath the LORD by this city thus unto this great

  • Jeremiah 23:39 - forget Therefore behold I even I will utterly you and I will forsake you and the city that I gave you and your fathers and cast you out of my presence

  • Jeremiah 25:18 - To wit Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and the kings thereof and the princes thereof to make them a desolation an astonishment an hissing and a curse as it is this day

  • Jeremiah 25:29 - on the city for I will call by my name For lo I begin to bring evil Ye shall not be unpunished Ye shall not be unpunished Ye shall not be unpunished for a sword for I will call upon all the inhabitants of the earth saith the LORD of hosts

  • Jeremiah 26:2 - Thus saith in the LORD'S Stand in the court house in the LORD'S and speak unto all the cities of Judah which come to worship house in the LORD'S all the words that I command and speak unto them diminish all the words

  • Jeremiah 26:6 - Then will I make this house like Shiloh this city Then will I make a curse to all the nations of the earth

  • Jeremiah 26:9 - Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD saying shall be like Shiloh This house and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant were gathered And all the people against Jeremiah This house of the LORD

  • Jeremiah 26:11 - Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people Then spake is worthy to die This man for he hath prophesied against this city as ye have heard with your ears

  • Jeremiah 26:12 - Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people Then spake The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard

  • Jeremiah 26:15 - But know But know that if ye put me to death blood innocent ye shall surely bring upon yourselves and upon this city and upon the inhabitants thereof for of a truth hath sent the LORD me unto you to speak in your ears all these words