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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- Exodus 9:33הָעִ֔יר · [went] out of the cityThen Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.
- Leviticus 14:40לָעִ֔יר · the city…he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.
- Leviticus 14:41לָעִ֔יר · the cityAnd he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.
- Leviticus 14:45לָעִ֔יר · the cityIt must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.
- Leviticus 14:53לָעִ֖יר · the cityFinally, he is to release the live bird into the open fields outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.
- Leviticus 25:29עִ֣יר · cityIf a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.
- Leviticus 25:30בָּעִ֜יר · cityIf it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.
- Leviticus 25:32 (2×)וְעָרֵי֙ · As for the cities; עָרֵ֣י · in the citiesAs for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.
- Leviticus 25:33 (2×)וְעִ֥יר · in a city; עָרֵ֣י · in the citiesSo whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.
- Leviticus 25:34עָרֵיהֶ֖ם · around their citiesBut the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.
- Leviticus 26:25עָרֵיכֶ֑ם · your citiesAnd I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Leviticus 26:31עָֽרֵיכֶם֙ · your citiesI will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
- Leviticus 26:33וְעָרֵיכֶ֖ם · and your citiesBut I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
- Numbers 13:19הֶֽעָרִ֗ים · Are the citiesIs the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?
- Numbers 13:28וְהֶֽעָרִ֗ים · and the citiesNevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
- Numbers 20:16עִ֖יר · a city…and when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
- Numbers 21:2עָרֵיהֶֽם׃ · their cities {to destruction}So Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction.”
- Numbers 21:3עָרֵיהֶ֑ם · their cities {to destruction}And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.
- Numbers 21:25 (2×)הֶעָרִ֖ים · the cities; עָרֵ֣יIsrael captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.
- Numbers 21:26עִ֗יר · was the cityHeshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.
- Numbers 21:27עִ֥יר · let the cityThat is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.
- Numbers 22:36עִ֣יר · cityWhen Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite city on the Arnon border, at the edge of his territory.
- Numbers 24:19מֵעִֽיר׃ · of the cityA ruler will come from Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city.”
- Numbers 31:10עָרֵיהֶם֙ · the citiesThen they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,
- Numbers 32:16וְעָרִ֖ים · and citiesThen the Gadites and Reubenites approached Moses and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.
- Numbers 32:17בְּעָרֵ֣י · citiesBut we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
- Numbers 32:24עָרִים֙ · citiesBuild cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
- Numbers 32:26בְּעָרֵ֥י · in the citiesOur children, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead.
- Numbers 32:33 (2×)לְעָרֶ֙יהָ֙ · including its cities; עָרֵ֥י · themSo Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land including its cities and the territory surrounding them.
- Numbers 32:36עָרֵ֥י · citiesBeth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.
- Numbers 32:38הֶעָרִ֖ים · the cities…as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. And they renamed the cities they rebuilt.
- Numbers 35:2 (2×)עָרִ֣ים · cities; לֶֽעָרִים֙ · the cities“Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities.
- Numbers 35:3הֶֽעָרִ֛ים · The citiesThe cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.
- Numbers 35:4 (2×)הֶֽעָרִ֔ים · around the cities; הָעִיר֙The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.
- Numbers 35:5 (3×)לָעִ֗יר · the city; וְהָעִ֣יר · with the city; הֶעָרִֽים׃ · for the citiesYou are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.
- Numbers 35:6 (3×)הֶֽעָרִ֗ים · of the cities; עָרֵ֣י · as cities; עִֽיר׃ · other citiesSix of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
- Numbers 35:7 (2×)הֶעָרִ֗ים · number of cities; עִ֑ירThe total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.
- Numbers 35:8 (2×)וְהֶֽעָרִ֗ים · The cities; מֵעָרָ֖יוThe cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”