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
- Isaiah 14:31עִ֔יר · O cityWail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.
- Isaiah 17:1מֵעִ֔יר · a cityThis is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.
- Isaiah 17:2עָרֵ֣י · The citiesThe cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
- Isaiah 17:9עָרֵ֣י · citiesIn that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.
- Isaiah 19:2עִ֣יר · city; בְּעִ֔יר · against city“So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
- Isaiah 19:18עָרִ֜ים · cities; עִ֣יר · the CityIn that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.
- Isaiah 22:2עִ֚יר · O cityO city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
- Isaiah 22:9עִיר־ · in the walls of the CityYou saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.
- Isaiah 23:16עִ֖יר · the city“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”
- Isaiah 24:12בָּעִ֖יר · The cityThe city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.
- Isaiah 25:2מֵעִיר֙ · the city; מֵעִ֔יר · [is] a city [no more]Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
- Isaiah 26:1עִ֣יר · cityIn that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.
- Isaiah 27:10עִ֤יר · cityFor the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
- Isaiah 32:14עִ֖יר · cityFor the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—
- Isaiah 32:19הָעִֽיר׃ · and the cityBut hail will level the forest, and the city will sink to the depths.
- Isaiah 33:8עָרִ֔ים · the witnessesThe highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
- Isaiah 36:1עָרֵ֧י · citiesIn the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
- Isaiah 36:15הָעִ֣יר · cityDo not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
- Isaiah 37:13לָעִ֣ירWhere are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
- Isaiah 37:26עָרִ֥ים · citiesHave you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
- Isaiah 37:33הָעִ֣יר · citySo this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
- Isaiah 37:34הָעִ֥יר · cityHe will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD.
- Isaiah 37:35הָעִ֥יר · city‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
- Isaiah 38:6הָעִ֣יר · city; הָעִ֥יר · cityAnd I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
- Isaiah 40:9לְעָרֵ֣י · to the citiesGo up on a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. Raise your voice loudly, O Jerusalem, herald of good news. Lift it up, do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”
- Isaiah 42:11וְעָרָ֔יו · and its citiesLet the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.
- Isaiah 44:26וּלְעָרֵ֤י · and of the cities…who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’
- Isaiah 45:13עִירִי֙ · My cityI will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts.”
- Isaiah 48:2מֵעִ֤יר · city…who indeed call yourselves after the holy city and lean on the God of Israel; the LORD of Hosts is His name.
- Isaiah 52:1עִ֣יר · cityAwake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.
- Isaiah 54:3וְעָרִ֥ים · citiesFor you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.
- Isaiah 60:14עִ֣יר · the CityThe sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 61:4עָ֣רֵי · citiesThey will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.
- Isaiah 62:12עִ֖יר · A CityAnd they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
- Isaiah 64:10עָרֵ֥י · citiesYour holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
- Isaiah 66:6מֵעִ֔יר · from the cityHear the uproar from the city; listen to the voice from the temple! It is the voice of the LORD, repaying His enemies what they deserve!
- Jeremiah 1:15עָרֵ֥י · the other citiesFor I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.
- Jeremiah 1:18לְעִ֨יר · cityNow 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.
- Jeremiah 2:15עָרָ֥יו · his citiesThe young lions have roared at him; they have sounded their voices. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 2:28עָרֶ֔יךָ · as your citiesBut where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
- Jeremiah 3:14מֵעִ֗יר · from a city“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
- Jeremiah 4:5עָרֵ֥י · citiesAnnounce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’
- Jeremiah 4:7עָרַ֥יִךְ · Your citiesA lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
- Jeremiah 4:16עָרֵ֥י · the citiesWarn the nations now! Proclaim to Jerusalem: “A besieging army comes from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.
- Jeremiah 4:26עָרָ֗יו · its citiesI looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
- Jeremiah 4:29הָעִ֔יר · cityEvery city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.