This word comes from the name of Ir-nahash.
Definition
or (in the plural) עָר; or עָיַר; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
Traditional renderings: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Traditional renderings: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
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- Genesis 4:17 (2×)עִ֔יר · a city; הָעִ֔יר · [it]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 10:12הָעִ֥יר · city…and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
- Genesis 11:4עִ֗יר · a city“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 11:5הָעִ֖יר · the cityThen the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
- Genesis 11:8הָעִֽיר׃ · the citySo the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
- Genesis 13:12בְּעָרֵ֣י · in the citiesAbram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
- Genesis 18:24הָעִ֑יר · the cityWhat 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 18:26הָעִ֑יר · the citySo the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”
- Genesis 18:28הָעִ֑יר · city…suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”
- Genesis 19:4הָעִ֜יר · of the cityBefore they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.
- Genesis 19:12בָּעִ֑יר · else in the cityThen the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
- Genesis 19:14הָעִ֑יר · the citySo Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
- Genesis 19:15הָעִֽיר׃ · of the cityAt daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
- Genesis 19:16לָעִֽיר׃ · the cityBut when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for them.
- Genesis 19:20הָעִ֨יר · a townLook, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is it not a small place? Then my life will be saved.”
- Genesis 19:21הָעִ֖יר · the town“Very well,” he answered, “I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.
- Genesis 19:22הָעִ֖יר · the townHurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
- Genesis 19:25 (2×)הֶעָרִ֣ים · cities; הֶעָרִ֔ים · of the citiesThus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
- Genesis 19:29 (2×)עָרֵ֣י · the cities; הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים · the citiesSo when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
- Genesis 23:10עִיר֖וֹ · of his cityNow Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,
- Genesis 23:18עִירֽוֹ׃ · of his city…to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
- Genesis 24:10עִ֥יר · hometownThen the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.
- Genesis 24:11לָעִ֖יר · the townAs evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.
- Genesis 24:13הָעִ֔ירHere I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
- Genesis 26:33הָעִיר֙ · of the citySo he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.
- Genesis 28:19הָעִ֖יר · the city…and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
- Genesis 33:18 (2×)עִ֣יר · at the city; הָעִֽיר׃ · the cityAfter Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.
- Genesis 34:20 (2×)עִירָ֑ם · of their city; עִירָ֖ם · of their citySo Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
- Genesis 34:24 (2×)עִיר֑וֹ · of the city; עִירֽוֹ׃ · of the cityAll the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.
- Genesis 34:25הָעִ֖יר · cityThree days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
- Genesis 34:27הָעִ֑יר · the cityJacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.
- Genesis 34:28בָּעִ֛יר · in the cityThey took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.
- Genesis 35:5הֶֽעָרִים֙ · citiesAs they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
- Genesis 36:32עִיר֖וֹ · of his cityBela son of Beor reigned in Edom; the name of his city was Dinhabah.
- Genesis 36:35עִיר֖וֹ · of his cityWhen Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.
- Genesis 36:39עִיר֖וֹ · His cityWhen Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, Hadad reigned in his place. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.
- Genesis 41:35בֶּעָרִ֖ים · in the citiesUnder the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.
- Genesis 41:48 (2×)בֶּעָרִ֑ים · in the cities; הָעִ֛יר · In every cityDuring those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.
- Genesis 44:4הָעִיר֮ · from the cityThey had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
- Genesis 44:13הָעִֽירָה׃ · to the cityThen they all tore their clothes, loaded their donkeys, and returned to the city.
- Genesis 47:21לֶעָרִ֑ים · to servitude…and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.
- Exodus 1:11עָרֵ֤י · citiesSo the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
- Exodus 9:29הָעִ֔יר · the cityMoses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.