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 50:32 - shall stumble And the most proud and fall and none shall raise him up and I will kindle a fire in his cities and it shall devour all round about

  • Jeremiah 51:31 - One post to meet One post One post and one messenger to meet and one messenger and one messenger the king of Babylon is taken that his city at one end

  • Jeremiah 51:43 - Her cities are a desolation a land a dry and a wilderness a land dwelleth thereby wherein no man pass thereby neither doth any son of man

  • Jeremiah 52:5 - So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah

  • Jeremiah 52:6 - day of the month And in the fourth in the ninth day of the month was sore the famine in the city so that there was no bread for the people of the land

  • Jeremiah 52:7 - was broken up Then the city of war fled and went forth Then the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls garden which was by the king's now the Chaldeans Then the city round about by the way of the plain

  • Jeremiah 52:15 - certain of the poor of the people and the residue of the people that remained in the city and those that fell away and those that fell away to the king of Babylon and the residue of the multitude carried away captive Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard

  • Jeremiah 52:25 - also out of the city He took eunuch an which had the charge men of war and seven men of them that were near person the king's that were found also out of the city scribe and the principal of the host who mustered of the people of the land and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the midst also out of the city

  • Job 15:28 - And he dwelleth cities in desolate and in houses which no man inhabiteth which are ready to become heaps

  • Job 24:12 - from out of the city Men groan and the soul of the wounded crieth out yet God layeth not folly

  • Joel 2:9 - in the city They shall run to and fro upon the wall they shall run upon the houses they shall climb up at the windows they shall enter in like a thief

  • Jonah 1:2 - Arise to Nineveh city that great and cry is come up against it for their wickedness before

  • Jonah 3:2 - Arise unto Nineveh city that great and preach unto it the preaching that I bid

  • Jonah 3:3 - arose So Jonah Now Nineveh according to the word of the LORD Now Nineveh city great was an exceeding journey of three days

  • Jonah 3:4 - began And Jonah to enter into the city journey day's a and he cried and said Yet forty day's and Nineveh shall be overthrown

  • Jonah 4:5 - went out So Jonah of the city and sat on the east side of the city and there made him a booth and sat under it in the shadow till he might see of the city

  • Jonah 4:11 - And should not I spare Nineveh city that great wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand cattle and also much

  • Jonah 4:11 - And should not I spare Nineveh city that great wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand cattle and also much

  • Joshua 3:16 - stood That the waters and those that came down from above and rose up heap upon an far very Adam from the city that is beside Zaretan and those that came down sea of the plain sea even the salt failed and were cut off and the people passed over right against Jericho

  • Joshua 6:3 - And ye shall compass the city of war and go round about the city once Thus shalt thou do six days