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)


  • Joshua 21:38 - And out of the tribe of Gad to be a city of refuge for the slayer Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs and Mahanaim with her suburbs

  • Joshua 21:39 - Heshbon with her suburbs Jazer with her suburbs cities four

  • Joshua 21:40 - So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families which were remaining by their families of the Levites were by their lot So all the cities twelve

  • Joshua 21:41 - All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel All the cities were forty and eight with their suburbs

  • Joshua 21:42 - These cities These cities These cities with their suburbs round about These cities

  • Joshua 24:13 - And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour and cities which ye built not and ye dwell in them of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat

  • Judges 1:8 - had fought Now the children of Judah against Jerusalem and had taken it and smitten it with the edge of the sword the city and set on fire

  • Judges 1:16 - And the children of the Kenite father in law Moses went up out of the city of palm trees among And the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah which lieth in the south of Arad and dwelt among the people

  • Judges 1:17 - And Judah with Simeon his brother and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath and utterly destroyed was called it And the name of the city Hormah

  • Judges 1:23 - sent to descry And the house of Joseph Bethel Now the name of the city before was Luz

  • Judges 1:24 - saw And the spies a man come forth into the city and they said saw us we pray thee the entrance into the city and we will shew thee mercy

  • Judges 1:25 - And when he shewed them the entrance into the city they smote into the city with the edge of the sword the man and all his family but they let go

  • Judges 1:26 - And the man into the land of the Hittites and built a city and called the name thereof Luz the name thereof unto this day

  • Judges 3:13 - And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek and smote Israel and possessed the city of palm trees

  • Judges 6:27 - took Then Gideon ten of his servants and did had said as the LORD unto him and so it was because he feared household his father's of the city and did it by day and did it by night

  • Judges 6:28 - arose early of the city in the morning was cast down behold the altar of Baal and the grove was cut down bullock that was by it and the second was offered behold the altar that was built

  • Judges 6:30 - said of the city unto Joash Bring out thy son that he may die because he hath cast down the altar of Baal and because he hath cut down the grove

  • Judges 8:16 - And he took the elders of the city and thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them he taught of Succoth

  • Judges 8:17 - the tower of Penuel And he beat down and slew of the city

  • Judges 8:27 - made And Gideon an ephod thereof and put it in his city even in Ophrah went thither a whoring and all Israel after And Gideon and to his house it which thing became a snare