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)
Joshua 8:12 - And he took about five thousand men and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai on the west side
Joshua 8:13 - And when they had set the people even all the host that was on the north of the city and their liers in wait on the west of the city Joshua that night into the midst of the valley
Joshua 8:14 - saw And it came to pass when the king of Ai it that they hasted and rose up early went out and the men of the city against Israel to battle he and all his people at a time appointed before the plain but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind of the city
Joshua 8:16 - were called And all the people from the city them and they pursued after them and they pursued after Joshua and were drawn away from the city
Joshua 8:17 - left And there was not a man in Ai or Bethel that went not out after Israel and they left the city open and pursued after Israel
Joshua 8:18 - said And the LORD And Joshua Stretch out the spear it into thine hand toward Ai it into thine hand for I will give Stretch out And Joshua the spear it into thine hand toward the city
Joshua 8:19 - And the ambush arose quickly out of their place and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and they entered into the city and took it and hasted and set into the city on fire
Joshua 8:20 - looked of Ai behind them they saw ascended up and behold the smoke of the city to heaven and they had no power that fled this way or that way this way or that way and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers
Joshua 8:21 - And when Joshua and all Israel saw had taken that the ambush of the city ascended and that the smoke of the city then they turned again and slew the men of Ai
Joshua 8:22 - And the other issued out of the city against of Israel them so they were in the midst And the other And the other some on this side and some on that side and they smote them so that they let none of them remain or escape
Joshua 8:27 - Only the cattle and the spoil of that city took for a prey Israel unto themselves according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua
Joshua 8:29 - And the king of Ai he hanged from the tree until eventide was down and as soon as the sun commanded Joshua down his carcase from the tree and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city and raise heap of stones thereon a great that remaineth unto this day
Joshua 9:17 - journeyed And the children of Israel and came Now their cities day on the third Now their cities were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kirjathjearim
Joshua 10:2 - That they feared greatly cities and because it was greater because Gibeon as one cities of the royal and because it was greater than Ai thereof were mighty
Joshua 10:19 - And stay ye not but pursue after your enemies and smite the hindmost hath delivered them not to enter into their cities hath delivered for the LORD your God them into your hand
Joshua 10:20 - had made an end And it came to pass when Joshua and the children of Israel of slaying slaughter great them with a very till they were consumed that the rest which remained of them entered cities into fenced
Joshua 10:37 - And they took it and smote it with the edge of the sword and the king thereof and all the cities it utterly and all the souls that were therein he left none remaining according to all that he had done to Eglon but destroyed it utterly and all the souls
Joshua 10:39 - And he took and to her king thereof and all the cities thereof and they smote them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein he left none remaining as he had done to Hebron as he had done to Debir and to her king as he had done also to Libnah and to her king
Joshua 11:12 - And all the cities and all the kings and all the kings take of them did Joshua and smote them with the edge of the sword and he utterly destroyed commanded them as Moses the servant of the LORD
Joshua 11:13 - But as for the cities that stood still in their strength burn Israel none of them save Hazor burn only that did Joshua