עִיר
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hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine1,096 occurrences37 books937 verses
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.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עִיר:
- πόλιςpolis“city”98%
Glossary entries
Usage patterns
Occurrences
1,096 total
- 1 Kings 14:21הָ֠עִיר · the cityMeanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
- 1 Kings 14:31בְּעִ֣יר · in the CityAnd Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 15:8בְּעִ֣יר · in the CityAnd Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Asa reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 15:20עָרֵ֣י · the citiesAnd Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and the whole land of Naphtali, including the region of Chinnereth.
- 1 Kings 15:23וְהֶֽעָרִים֙ · and the citiesNow the rest of the acts of Asa, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? In his old age, however, he became diseased in his feet.
- 1 Kings 15:24בְּעִ֖יר · in the cityAnd Asa rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David, and his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 16:4בָּעִ֔יר · in the cityAnyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”
- 1 Kings 16:18הָעִ֔יר · the cityWhen Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down upon himself. So he died
- 1 Kings 16:24הָעִיר֙ · [it]He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.
- 1 Kings 17:10הָעִ֔יר · the citySo Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”
- 1 Kings 20:2הָעִֽירָה׃ · into the cityThen he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel,
- 1 Kings 20:12הָעִֽיר׃ · the cityBen-hadad received this message while he and the kings were drinking in their tents, and he said to his servants, “Take your positions.” So they stationed themselves against the city.
- 1 Kings 20:19הָעִ֔יר · the cityMeanwhile, these young officers of the district governors marched out of the city, with the army behind them,
- 1 Kings 20:30הָעִיר֒ · the city; הָעִ֖יר · to the cityThe rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.
- 1 Kings 20:34הֶעָרִ֣ים · the citiesBen-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I release you,” Ahab replied. So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.
- 1 Kings 21:8בְּעִיר֔וֹ · in his cityThen Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.
- 1 Kings 21:11עִיר֜וֹ; בְּעִיר֔וֹ · in [Naboth’s] citySo the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.
- 1 Kings 21:13לָעִ֔יר · the cityAnd the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.
- 1 Kings 21:24בָּעִ֔יר · in the cityAnyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”
- 1 Kings 22:26הָעִ֑יר · of the cityAnd the king of Israel declared, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,
- 1 Kings 22:36עִיר֖וֹ · his own cityAs the sun was setting, the cry rang out in the army: “Every man to his own city, and every man to his own land!”
- 1 Kings 22:39הֶעָרִ֖ים · the citiesAs for the rest of the acts of Ahab, along with all his accomplishments and the ivory palace and all the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 22:50בְּעִ֖יר · in the cityAnd Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David. And his son Jehoram reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 2:19הָעִיר֙ · of the city; הָעִיר֙ · that the city’sThen the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please note, our lord, that the city’s location is good, as you can see. But the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”
- 2 Kings 2:23הָעִ֔יר · the cityFrom there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
- 2 Kings 3:19עִ֤יר · city; עִ֣יר · cityAnd you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.”
- 2 Kings 3:25וְהֶעָרִ֣ים · the citiesThey destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.
- 2 Kings 6:14הָעִֽיר׃ · the city…the king of Aram sent horses, chariots, and a great army. They went there by night and surrounded the city.
- 2 Kings 6:15הָעִ֖יר · the cityWhen the servant of the man of God got up and went out early in the morning, behold, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”
- 2 Kings 6:19הָעִיר֒ · the cityAnd Elisha told them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will take you to the man you are seeking.” And he led them to Samaria.
- 2 Kings 7:4הָעִ֜יר · the city; בָּעִיר֙ · in the cityIf we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”
- 2 Kings 7:10הָעִיר֒ · of the citySo they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city, saying, “We went to the Aramean camp and no one was there—not a trace—only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents were intact.”
- 2 Kings 7:12הָעִיר֙ · the city; הָעִ֖יר · the citySo the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”
- 2 Kings 8:24בְּעִ֣יר · in the CityAnd Jehoram rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 9:15הָעִ֔יר · the city…but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) So Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then do not let anyone escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”
- 2 Kings 9:28בְּעִ֥יר · in the CityThen his servants carried him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his fathers in his tomb in the City of David.
- 2 Kings 10:2וְעִ֥יר · city“When this letter arrives, since your master’s sons are with you and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city and weaponry,
- 2 Kings 10:5הָעִ֟יר · of the citySo the palace administrator, the overseer of the city, the elders, and the guardians sent a message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do whatever you say. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your sight.”
- 2 Kings 10:6הָעִ֖יר · of the cityThen Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.
- 2 Kings 10:25עִ֥יר · the inner roomWhen he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.
- 2 Kings 11:20וְהָעִ֣יר · And the city…and all the people of the land rejoiced. And the city was quiet, because Athaliah had been put to the sword at the royal palace.
- 2 Kings 12:21בְּעִ֣יר · in the CityHis servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer struck him down, and he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the City of David, and his son Amaziah reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 13:25הֶֽעָרִים֙ · the cities; עָרֵ֥י · the citiesThen Jehoash son of Jehoahaz took back from Ben-hadad son of Hazael the cities that Hazael had taken in battle from his father Jehoahaz. Jehoash defeated Ben-hadad three times, and so recovered the cities of Israel.