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)


  • 1 Kings 14:31 - slept And Rehoboam with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David ~ And his mother's was Naamah an Ammonitess reigned And Abijam his son

  • 1 Kings 15:8 - slept And Abijam with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David reigned and Asa his son

  • 1 Kings 15:20 - hearkened So Benhadad unto king Asa and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel and smote Ijon and Dan and Abelbethmaachah and all Cinneroth with all the land of Naphtali

  • 1 Kings 15:23 - The rest of all the acts of Asa and all his might and all that he did and the cities which he built are they not written in the book of all the acts of the kings of Judah Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet

  • 1 Kings 15:24 - slept And Asa his father and was buried his father in the city of David his father reigned and Jehoshaphat his son

  • 1 Kings 16:4 - Him that dieth of Baasha in the city eat shall the dogs Him that dieth of his in the fields eat shall the fowls of the air

  • 1 Kings 16:18 - saw And it came to pass when Zimri was taken that the city that he went into the palace house of the king's and burnt house of the king's over him with fire and died

  • 1 Kings 16:24 - And he bought of the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver and built of the hill and called after the ~ of the city and built after the ~ of Shemer owner of the hill Samaria

  • 1 Kings 17:10 - So he arose to Zarephath And when he came to the gate of the city woman behold the widow was there gathering of sticks and he called to her and said Fetch me I pray thee a little water in a vessel that I may drink

  • 1 Kings 20:2 - And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city and said and said Benhadad

  • 1 Kings 20:12 - And it came to pass when Benhadad heard this message as he was drinking he and the kings in the pavilions that he said unto his servants Set Set themselves in array against the city

  • 1 Kings 20:19 - came out of the city So these young men of the princes of the provinces and the army which followed

  • 1 Kings 20:30 - fled But the rest to Aphek into the city fell and there a wall upon twenty and seven thousand of the men But the rest And Benhadad fled and came into the city chamber chamber

  • 1 Kings 20:34 - And Benhadad said unto him The cities took as my father as my father I will restore streets and thou shalt make for thee in Damascus and thou shalt make as my father in Samaria a covenant Then said Ahab I will send thee away So he made a covenant Then said Ahab I will send thee away

  • 1 Kings 21:8 - So she wrote letters ~ in Ahab's them with his seal and sealed and sent letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city dwelling with Naboth

  • 1 Kings 21:11 - did in his city even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city had sent as Jezebel unto them and as it was written in the letters had sent

  • 1 Kings 21:13 - And there came in two children of Belial and sat witnessed of Belial Naboth in the presence of the people saying did blaspheme Naboth God and the king Then they carried him forth out of the city and stoned him with stones that he died

  • 1 Kings 21:24 - Him that dieth of Ahab in the city eat the dogs Him that dieth in the field eat shall the fowls of the air

  • 1 Samuel 1:3 - went up man And this out of his city yearly yearly to worship and to sacrifice of the LORD of hosts in Shiloh And the two sons of Eli Hophni and Phinehas the priests of the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 4:13 - And when he came lo Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching for his heart trembled for the ark of God And when the man And when he came and told into the city cried out into the city