H5892 - עִיר (ʻîyr)

H5892 עִיר (ʻîyr) eer

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

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

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

KJV Usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.

TWOT Reference: 1587a,1615

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) excitement, anguish

1a) of terror

2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded)

2a) city, town

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G32 G1093 G2968 G3390 G3390 G4172 G5156

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עָיַר / עָר / עִיר ‛ý̂yr / ‛âr / ‛âyar BDB Definition: 1) excitement, anguish 1a) of terror 2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded) 2a) city, town Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) Same Word by TWOT Number: 1587a, 1615 Total KJV Occurrences: 1090

Bible Occurrences (934)

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Genesis 4:17

And Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then [Cain] built a city and named... [it] after his son Enoch.

Genesis 10:12

and Resen, which is between Nineveh... and the great city of Calah....

Genesis 11:4

Come, they said, let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.

Genesis 11:5

Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

Genesis 11:8

So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

Genesis 13:12

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom.

Genesis 18:24

What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there?

Genesis 18:26

So the LORD replied, If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.