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)


  • Nehemiah 2:8 - And a letter unto Asaph the keeper forest And the king granted me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace and for the house and for the wall of the city and for the house that I shall enter into granted And the king hand of my God me according to the good

  • Nehemiah 3:15 - But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh the ruler of part of Mizpah he built it and covered it and set up the doors thereof the locks thereof and the bars thereof and the wall of the pool of Siloah garden by the king's and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David

  • Nehemiah 7:4 - Now the city was large and great but the people were few therein and the houses were not builded

  • Nehemiah 7:6 - These are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away had carried away whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah every one unto his city

  • Nehemiah 7:73 - dwelt So the priests and the Levites and the porters and the singers and some of the people and the Nethinims and all Israel in their cities came month and when the seventh the children and all Israel in their cities

  • Nehemiah 8:15 - And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities and in Jerusalem saying Go forth unto the mount and fetch and branches olive and branches branches and pine and branches and myrtle and branches and palm and branches branches of thick to make booths as it is written

  • Nehemiah 9:25 - And they took cities strong land and a fat and possessed houses full goodness wells digged vineyards and oliveyards trees and fruit in abundance so they did eat and were filled and became fat and delighted goodness themselves in thy great

  • Nehemiah 10:37 - the firstfruits of our dough and our offerings and the fruit of all manner of trees of wine and of oil And that we should bring unto the priests to the chambers of the house of our God and the tithes of our ground that the same Levites that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage

  • Nehemiah 11:1 - dwelt And the rulers of the people at Jerusalem the rest of the people also cast lots to bring one of ten dwelt at Jerusalem city the holy and nine parts city

  • Nehemiah 11:3 - Now these are the chief of the province dwelt in Jerusalem but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession but in the cities to wit Israel the priests and the Levites and the Nethinims and the children servants of Solomon's

  • Nehemiah 11:9 - And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer and Judah the son of Senuah over the city was second

  • Nehemiah 11:18 - All the Levites city in the holy were two hundred fourscore and four

  • Nehemiah 11:20 - And the residue of Israel of the priests and the Levites were in all the cities of Judah every one in his inheritance

  • Nehemiah 12:37 - gate And at the fountain which was over against them they went up by the stairs of the city of David at the going up of the wall above the house of David gate even unto the water eastward

  • Nehemiah 12:44 - appointed And at that time over the chambers for the treasures for the offerings for the firstfruits and for the tithes to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites rejoiced for Judah for the priests and Levites that waited

  • Nehemiah 13:18 - Did not your fathers bring not our God all this evil upon us and upon this city more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath

  • Numbers 13:19 - And what the land is that they dwell in whether it be good or bad and what cities is that they dwell in in whether in tents or in strong holds

  • Numbers 13:28 - Nevertheless be strong the people that dwell in the land and the cities are walled great and very the children of Anak and moreover we saw

  • Numbers 20:16 - And when we cried unto the LORD he heard our voice and sent an angel and hath brought us forth out of Egypt and behold we are in Kadesh a city in the uttermost of thy border

  • Numbers 21:2 - vowed And Israel a vow unto the LORD and said If thou wilt indeed If thou wilt indeed this people into my hand then I will utterly destroy their cities