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
- Jeremiah 41:7הָעִ֑יר · the cityAnd when they came into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.
- Jeremiah 44:2עָרֵ֣י · the cities“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster that I brought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, they lie today in ruins and desolation
- Jeremiah 44:6בְּעָרֵ֣י · in the citiesTherefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.
- Jeremiah 44:17בְּעָרֵ֣י · in the citiesInstead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
- Jeremiah 44:21בְּעָרֵ֤י · in the cities“As for the incense you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land—did the LORD not remember and bring this to mind?
- Jeremiah 46:8עִ֖יר · the citiesEgypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’
- Jeremiah 47:2עִ֖יר · the citiesThis is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail
- Jeremiah 48:8עִ֗יר · city; וְעִיר֙ · one townThe destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.
- Jeremiah 48:9וְעָרֶ֙יהָ֙ · her citiesPut salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.
- Jeremiah 48:15וְעָרֶ֣יהָ · and its townsMoab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 48:24עָרֵי֙ · the towns…upon Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns of Moab, those far and near.
- Jeremiah 48:28עָרִים֙ · the townsAbandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
- Jeremiah 49:1בְּעָרָ֥יו · in their citiesConcerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Milcom taken possession of Gad? Why have his people settled in their cities?
- Jeremiah 49:13עָרֶ֥יהָ · her citiesFor by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
- Jeremiah 49:25עִ֣יר · is the cityHow is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
- Jeremiah 50:32בְּעָרָ֔יו · in his citiesThe arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities to consume all those around him.”
- Jeremiah 51:31עִיר֖וֹ · his cityOne courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
- Jeremiah 51:43עָרֶ֙יהָ֙ · Her citiesHer cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
- Jeremiah 52:5הָעִ֖יר · And the cityAnd the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
- Jeremiah 52:6בָּעִ֑יר · in the cityBy the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
- Jeremiah 52:7הָעִ֗יר · Then the city; מֵהָעִ֜יר · the city; הָעִ֖יר · the cityThen the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
- Jeremiah 52:15בָּעִ֗יר · in the cityThen Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen.
- Jeremiah 52:25הָעִ֡יר · still in the city; בָעִ֔יר; הָעִֽיר׃ · the cityOf those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
- Lamentations 1:1הָעִיר֙ · the cityHow lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
- Lamentations 1:19בָּעִ֣יר · in the cityI called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
- Lamentations 2:12עִ֔יר · of the cityThey cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
- Lamentations 2:15הָעִ֗יר · the cityAll who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
- Lamentations 3:51עִירִֽי׃ס · of my cityMy eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
- Lamentations 5:11בְּעָרֵ֥י · in the citiesWomen have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
- Ezekiel 4:1עִ֖יר · the city“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 4:3הָעִ֑יר · and the cityThen take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 5:2הָעִ֔יר · the cityWhen the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.
- Ezekiel 6:6הֶעָרִ֣ים · the citiesWherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.
- Ezekiel 7:15בָּעִ֔יר · in the cityThe sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.
- Ezekiel 7:23וְהָעִ֖יר · and the cityForge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
- Ezekiel 9:1הָעִ֑יר · of the cityThen I heard Him call out in a loud voice, saying, “Draw near, O executioners of the city, each with a weapon of destruction in hand.”
- Ezekiel 9:4הָעִ֔יר · the city“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
- Ezekiel 9:5בָעִ֛יר · through the cityAnd as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!
- Ezekiel 9:7בָעִֽיר׃ · throughout the cityThen He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.
- Ezekiel 9:9וְהָעִ֖יר · and the cityHe replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
- Ezekiel 10:2הָעִ֑יר · the cityAnd the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.
- Ezekiel 11:2בָּעִ֥יר · cityAnd the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.
- Ezekiel 11:6בָּעִ֣יר · cityYou have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead.
- Ezekiel 11:23הָעִ֑יר · the city; לָעִֽיר׃ · of the cityAnd the glory of the LORD rose up from within the city and stood over the mountain east of the city.