עִיר

irexcitementHow to read Hebrew
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.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עִיר:

Glossary entries

Ir-Nahash

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,096 total
  1. Jeremiah 4:29הָעִ֣יר · city
    Every 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.
  2. Jeremiah 5:6עָ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם · their cities
    Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.
  3. Jeremiah 5:17עָרֵ֣י · cities
    They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”
  4. Jeremiah 6:6הָעִ֣יר · city
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.
  5. Jeremiah 7:17בְּעָרֵ֣י · in the cities
    Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
  6. Jeremiah 7:34מֵעָרֵ֣י · from the cities
    I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
  7. Jeremiah 8:14עָרֵ֥י · cities
    Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
  8. Jeremiah 8:16עִ֖יר · the city
    The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.
  9. Jeremiah 9:11עָרֵ֧י · the cities
    “And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
  10. Jeremiah 10:22עָרֵ֧י · the cities
    Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the land to the north. It will make the cities of Judah a desolation, a haunt for jackals.
  11. Jeremiah 11:6בְּעָרֵ֣י · in the cities
    Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.
  12. Jeremiah 11:12עָרֵ֣י · Then the cities
    Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.
  13. Jeremiah 11:13עָרֶ֔יךָ · as your cities
    Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’
  14. Jeremiah 13:19עָרֵ֥י · The cities
    The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.
  15. Jeremiah 14:18הָעִ֔יר · the city
    If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
  16. Jeremiah 15:8עִ֖יר · anguish
    I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
  17. Jeremiah 17:24הָעִ֥יר · city
    If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,
  18. Jeremiah 17:25הָעִ֣יר · city; הָֽעִיר־ · city
    …then kings and princes will enter through the gates of this city. They will sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses with their officials, along with the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.
  19. Jeremiah 17:26מֵעָרֵֽי־ · from the cities
    And people will come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, and from the foothills, the hill country, and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.
  20. Jeremiah 19:8הָעִ֣יר · city
    I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
  21. Jeremiah 19:11הָעִ֣יר · city
    …and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
  22. Jeremiah 19:12הָעִ֥יר · city
    This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.
  23. Jeremiah 19:15הָעִ֤יר · city; עָרֶ֔יהָ · the villages around it
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
  24. Jeremiah 20:5הָעִ֣יר · city
    I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.
  25. Jeremiah 20:16כֶּֽעָרִ֛ים · like the cities
    May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
  26. Jeremiah 21:4הָעִ֥יר · city
    …this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
  27. Jeremiah 21:6הָעִ֣יר · city
    I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’
  28. Jeremiah 21:7בָּעִ֨יר · city
    ‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
  29. Jeremiah 21:9בָּעִ֣יר · city
    Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.
  30. Jeremiah 21:10בָּעִ֨יר · city
    For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.’
  31. Jeremiah 22:6עָרִ֖ים · like cities
    For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
  32. Jeremiah 22:8הָעִ֣יר · city; לָעִ֥יר · city
    And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
  33. Jeremiah 23:39הָעִיר֙ · the city
    …therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.
  34. Jeremiah 25:18עָרֵ֣י · and the cities
    …to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
  35. Jeremiah 25:29בָעִ֜יר · on the city
    For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
  36. Jeremiah 26:2עָרֵ֣י · the cities
    “This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all the cities of Judah who come to worship there. Do not omit a word.
  37. Jeremiah 26:6הָעִ֤יר · city
    …then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”
  38. Jeremiah 26:9וְהָעִ֥יר · city
    How dare you prophesy in the name of the LORD that this house will become like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted!” And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
  39. Jeremiah 26:11הָעִ֣יר · city
    Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears!”
  40. Jeremiah 26:12הָעִ֣יר · city
    But Jeremiah said to all the officials and all the people, “The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.
  41. Jeremiah 26:15הָעִ֥יר · city
    But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upon its residents; for truly the LORD has sent me to speak all these words in your hearing.”
  42. Jeremiah 26:20הָעִ֤יר · city
    Now there was another man prophesying in the name of the LORD, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land the same things that Jeremiah did.
  43. Jeremiah 27:17הָעִ֥יר · city
    Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
  44. Jeremiah 27:19בָּעִ֥יר · city
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,
  45. Jeremiah 29:7הָעִ֗יר · of the city
    Seek the prosperity of the city to which I have sent you as exiles. Pray to the LORD on its behalf, for if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
  46. Jeremiah 29:16בָּעִ֣יר · city
    …this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David’s throne and all the people who remain in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile—
  47. Jeremiah 30:18עִיר֙ · And the city
    This is what the LORD says: “I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.