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)


  • 2 Chronicles 9:25 - And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots and twelve thousand horsemen whom he bestowed cities in the chariot and with the king at Jerusalem

  • 2 Chronicles 9:31 - slept And Solomon his father and he was buried in the city of David his father reigned and Rehoboam his son

  • 2 Chronicles 10:17 - But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah reigned Rehoboam

  • 2 Chronicles 11:5 - dwelt And Rehoboam in Jerusalem and built cities for defence in Judah

  • 2 Chronicles 11:10 - And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron which are in Judah and in Benjamin cities fenced

  • 2 Chronicles 11:12 - And in every several city And in every several city he put shields and spears strong and made them exceeding having Judah and Benjamin

  • 2 Chronicles 11:23 - And he dealt wisely and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin city unto every fenced and he gave them victual in abundance And he desired many wives

  • 2 Chronicles 12:4 - And he took cities the fenced which pertained to Judah and came to Jerusalem

  • 2 Chronicles 12:13 - strengthened So king Rehoboam himself in Jerusalem and he reigned old and forty was one years Rehoboam and he reigned seventeen years and he reigned himself in Jerusalem the city had chosen which the LORD to put his name out of all the tribes of Israel his name there And his mother's was Naamah an Ammonitess

  • 2 Chronicles 12:16 - slept And Rehoboam with his fathers and was buried in the city of David reigned and Abijah his son

  • 2 Chronicles 13:19 - pursued And Abijah after Jeroboam and took cities from him Bethel with the towns thereof and Jeshanah with the towns thereof and Ephrain with the towns

  • 2 Chronicles 14:1 - slept So Abijah with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David reigned and Asa his son in his stead In his days was quiet the land ten years

  • 2 Chronicles 14:5 - Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images was quiet and the kingdom before

  • 2 Chronicles 14:6 - And he built cities fenced in Judah had rest for the land and he had no war in those years had given him rest because the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 14:7 - Therefore he said unto Judah Let us build these cities and make about them walls and towers gates and bars while the land is yet before us because we have sought the LORD our God us because we have sought him and he hath given us rest on every side Let us build and prospered

  • 2 Chronicles 14:14 - And they smote all the cities round about Gerar for the fear of the LORD came upon them and they spoiled all the cities spoil for there was exceeding much

  • 2 Chronicles 15:6 - was destroyed And nation And nation and city and city for God did vex them with all adversity

  • 2 Chronicles 15:8 - heard And when Asa these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet he took courage and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim and renewed the altar of the LORD that was before the porch of the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 16:4 - hearkened And Benhadad unto king Asa and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel and they smote Ijon and Dan and Abelmaim and all the store against the cities of Naphtali

  • 2 Chronicles 16:14 - And they buried him in his own sepulchres which he had made for himself in the city of David and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds by the apothecaries by the apothecaries art and they made burning great a very