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)


  • Judges 19:12 - said And his master unto him We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger that is not of the children of Israel we will pass over to Gibeah

  • Judges 19:15 - And they turned aside and when he went in and to lodge in Gibeah and when he went in he sat him down in a street of the city for there was no man that took them into his house and to lodge

  • Judges 19:17 - And when he had lifted up his eyes he saw man a wayfaring in the street of the city said man and the old thou and whence comest

  • Judges 19:22 - merry Now as they were making their hearts behold the men of the city behold the men sons of Belial beset into thine house and beat at the door and spake man to the master into thine house the old and spake Bring forth man that came into thine house that we may know

  • Judges 20:11 - were gathered So all the men of Israel against the city So all the men as one knit together

  • Judges 20:14 - gathered themselves together But the children of Benjamin out of the cities unto Gibeah to go out to battle But the children of Israel

  • Judges 20:15 - were numbered And the children of Benjamin at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword beside the inhabitants of Gibeah were numbered seven hundred men

  • Judges 20:31 - went out And the children of Benjamin against of the people and were drawn away from the city and they began to smite of the people and kill as at other times as at other times in the highways and the other goeth up to the house and the other to Gibeah in the field about thirty men of Israel

  • Judges 20:32 - said And the children of Benjamin They are smitten down before us as at the first And the children of Israel said Let us flee and draw them from the city unto the highways

  • Judges 20:37 - And the liers in wait hasted and rushed upon Gibeah drew themselves along And the liers in wait and smote all the city with the edge of the sword

  • Judges 20:38 - Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait that they should make a great rise up flame with smoke out of the city

  • Judges 20:40 - But when the flame began ascended up of the city with a pillar of smoke looked behind ascended up them and behold the flame of the city to heaven

  • Judges 20:42 - Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness but the battle overtook them and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst

  • Judges 20:48 - And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin and smote them with the edge of the sword all the cities as well the men as the beast as and all that came to hand all the cities and all that came to hand also they set on fire

  • Judges 21:23 - did so And the children of Benjamin and took them wives according to their number of them that danced whom they caught and returned unto their inheritance and repaired the cities and dwelt

  • Lamentations 1:1 - sit solitary How doth the city she that was great of people how is she become as a widow she that was great among the nations and princess among the provinces how is she become tributary

  • Lamentations 1:19 - I called for my lovers but they deceived me my priests and mine elders in the city gave up the ghost while they sought their meat to relieve their souls

  • Lamentations 2:12 - into their mothers They say Where is corn and wine when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city was poured out when their soul bosom into their mothers

  • Lamentations 2:15 - by clap their hands All that pass at thee they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem saying Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty The joy of the whole earth

  • Lamentations 3:51 - Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city