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)


  • Song of Solomon 3:3 - found The watchmen that go about the city loveth ye him whom my soul me to whom I said Saw

  • Song of Solomon 5:7 - found The watchmen that went about the city me they smote me they wounded took away my veil The watchmen of the walls

  • Zechariah 1:12 - answered Then the angel O LORD and said O LORD of hosts how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years

  • Zechariah 1:17 - Cry Thus saith Thus saith and the LORD of hosts shall yet be spread abroad My cities through prosperity shall yet comfort and the LORD Zion and shall yet choose Jerusalem

  • Zechariah 7:7 - Should ye not hear the words hath cried which the LORD by prophets the former when Jerusalem her when men inhabited and in prosperity and the cities thereof round about the south and the plain her when men inhabited

  • Zechariah 8:3 - Thus saith of the LORD I am returned unto Zion and will dwell in the midst and Jerusalem shall be called and Jerusalem a city of truth and the mountain of the LORD of hosts and the mountain the holy

  • Zechariah 8:5 - And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing And the streets

  • Zechariah 8:20 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts It shall yet come to pass that there shall come people and the inhabitants cities of many

  • Zechariah 14:2 - For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle shall be taken and the city rifled and the houses and the women shall go forth and half and the city into captivity and the residue of the people shall not be cut off and the city

  • Zephaniah 1:16 - A day of the trumpet and alarm cities against the fenced towers and against the high

  • Zephaniah 2:15 - city This is the rejoicing that dwelt carelessly that said in her heart I am and there is none beside me how is she become a desolation to lie down in a place for beasts every one that passeth by her shall hiss and wag his hand

  • Zephaniah 3:1 - Woe to her that is filthy and polluted city to the oppressing

  • Zephaniah 3:6 - I have cut off the nations are desolate their towers waste I made their streets that none passeth by are destroyed their cities so that there is no man that there is none inhabitant