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)


  • Numbers 35:8 - And the cities shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel from them that have many ye shall give many but from them that have few ye shall give few every one according to his inheritance which he inheriteth shall give And the cities unto the Levites

  • Numbers 35:11 - Then ye shall appoint to be cities to be cities of refuge may flee for you that the slayer thither which killeth any person at unawares

  • Numbers 35:12 - And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger die that the manslayer not until he stand before the congregation in judgment

  • Numbers 35:13 - And of these cities which ye shall give six And of these cities shall ye have for refuge

  • Numbers 35:14 - and three cities Ye shall give on this side Jordan and three cities Ye shall give in the land of Canaan cities of refuge

  • Numbers 35:15 - both for the children of Israel and for the stranger and for the sojourner among These six cities shall be a refuge may flee them that every one that killeth any person unawares

  • Numbers 35:25 - shall deliver And the congregation the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood shall restore And the congregation him to the city of his refuge whither he was fled and he shall abide in it unto the death priest of the high which was anointed oil with the holy

  • Numbers 35:26 - come come But if the slayer without the border of the city of his refuge whither he was fled

  • Numbers 35:27 - find And the revenger he shall not be guilty of blood him without the borders of the city of his refuge kill And the revenger he shall not be guilty of blood kill he shall not be guilty of blood

  • Numbers 35:28 - in the city of his refuge Because he should have remained the death priest of the high but after the death priest of the high shall return the slayer into the land of his possession

  • Numbers 35:32 - And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge that he should come again to dwell in the land until the death of the priest

  • Obadiah 1:20 - And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites even unto Zarephath And the captivity of Jerusalem which is in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the south

  • Proverbs 1:21 - in the chief place of concourse She crieth in the openings of the gates in the city her words she uttereth

  • Proverbs 16:32 - is better He that is slow to anger than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city

  • Proverbs 21:22 - the city of the mighty man scaleth A wise and casteth down the strength of the confidence

  • Proverbs 25:28 - is like a city that is broken down and without walls He that hath no rule over his own spirit

  • Psalms 9:6 - O thou enemy end destructions are come to a perpetual and thou hast destroyed is perished their memorial with them

  • Psalms 31:21 - Blessed be the LORD for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness city in a strong

  • Psalms 46:4 - There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High

  • Psalms 48:1 - Great is the LORD to be praised and greatly in the city of our God in the mountain of his holiness