HebrewH5892Noun (Masculine)

עִיר

ir

890Occurrences
H5892Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)

or (in the plural) עָר; or עָיַר; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 (עוּר)

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. excitement, anguish 1a) of terror

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

עִיר appears 890 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
128
Jeremiah
117
2 Chronicles
68
Ezk
53
2 Kings
51
Judges
47
1 Kings
46
Deuteronomy
46

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:43BSB

These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:Bela son of Beor. His city was named Dinhabah.

2 Kings 15:7BSB

And Azariah rested with his fathers and was buried near them in the City of David. And his son Jotham reigned in his place.

Ezk 26:19BSB

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Jeremiah 1:18BSB

Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

Joshua 19:38BSB

Iron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh. There were nineteen cities, along with their villages.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.