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.
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
- Ezekiel 12:20וְהֶעָרִ֤ים · citiesThe inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
- Ezekiel 17:4בְּעִ֥יר · it in a cityHe plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.
- Ezekiel 19:7וְעָרֵיהֶ֖ם · their citiesHe broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.
- Ezekiel 21:19עִ֖יר · to each city“Now you, son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same land. And make a signpost where the road branches off to each city.
- Ezekiel 22:2עִ֣יר · on the city“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations
- Ezekiel 22:3עִ֣יר · O city…and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself,
- Ezekiel 24:6עִ֣יר · to the cityTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now rusted, whose rust will not come off! Empty it piece by piece; cast no lots for its contents.
- Ezekiel 24:9עִ֣יר · to the cityYes, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.
- Ezekiel 25:9מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים · cities; מֵֽעָרָ֖יו…therefore I will indeed expose the flank of Moab beginning with its frontier cities—Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim—the glory of the land.
- Ezekiel 26:10עִ֥יר · cityHis multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.
- Ezekiel 26:17הָעִ֣יר · O cityThen they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!
- Ezekiel 26:19עִ֣יר · city; כֶּעָרִ֖ים · citiesFor this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,
- Ezekiel 29:12וְעָרֶ֙יהָ֙ · and her cities; עָרִ֤ים · citiesI will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.
- Ezekiel 30:7וְעָרָ֕יו · and their cities; עָרִ֥ים · citiesThey will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.
- Ezekiel 33:21הָעִֽיר׃ · The cityIn the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”
- Ezekiel 35:4עָרֶ֙יךָ֙ · I will turn your citiesI will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 35:9וְעָרֶ֖יךָ · and your citiesI will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 36:4וְלֶעָרִ֣ים · cities…therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
- Ezekiel 36:10הֶֽעָרִ֔ים · The citiesI will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
- Ezekiel 36:33הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים · I will cause the citiesThis is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt.
- Ezekiel 36:35וְהֶעָרִ֧ים · The citiesThen they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’
- Ezekiel 36:38הֶעָרִ֣ים · citiesLike the numerous flocks for sacrifices at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 39:9עָרֵ֣י · in the citiesThen those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, kindle fires, and burn up the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.
- Ezekiel 39:16עִ֛יר · Even the city(Even the city will be named Hamonah.) And so they will cleanse the land.
- Ezekiel 40:1הָעִ֑יר · JerusalemIn the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
- Ezekiel 40:2עִ֖יר · that resembled a cityIn visions of God He took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose southern slope was a structure that resembled a city.
- Ezekiel 43:3הָעִ֔יר · the cityThe vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when He came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the River Kebar. I fell facedown,
- Ezekiel 45:6הָעִ֜יר · of the cityAs the property of the city, you are to set aside an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjacent to the holy district. It will belong to the whole house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 45:7הָעִ֗יר; הָעִ֔יר · of the cityNow the prince will have the area bordering each side of the area formed by the holy district and the property of the city, extending westward from the western side and eastward from the eastern side, running lengthwise from the western boundary to the eastern boundary and parallel to one of the tribal portions.
- Ezekiel 48:15לָעִ֔יר · by the city; הָעִ֖יר · The cityThe remaining area, 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, will be for common use by the city, for houses, and for pastureland. The city will be in the center of it
- Ezekiel 48:17לָעִיר֒ · of the cityThe pastureland of the city will extend 250 cubits to the north, 250 cubits to the south, 250 cubits to the east, and 250 cubits to the west.
- Ezekiel 48:18הָעִֽיר׃ · of the cityThe remainder of the length bordering the holy portion and running adjacent to it will be 10,000 cubits on the east side and 10,000 cubits on the west side. Its produce will supply food for the workers of the city.
- Ezekiel 48:19הָעִ֑יר · of the cityThe workers of the city who cultivate it will come from all the tribes of Israel.
- Ezekiel 48:20הָעִֽיר׃ · the cityThe entire portion will be a square, 25,000 cubits by 25,000 cubits. You are to set apart the holy portion, along with the city property.
- Ezekiel 48:21הָעִ֟יר · of the cityThe remaining area on both sides of the holy portion and of the property of the city will belong to the prince. He will own the land adjacent to the tribal portions, extending eastward from the 25,000 cubits of the holy district toward the eastern border, and westward from the 25,000 cubits to the western border. And in the center of them will be the holy portion and the sanctuary of the temple.
- Ezekiel 48:22הָעִ֔יר · and the citySo the Levitical property and the city property will lie in the center of the area belonging to the prince—the area between the borders of Judah and Benjamin.
- Ezekiel 48:30הָעִ֑יר · of the city“These will be the exits of the city: Beginning on the north side, which will be 4,500 cubits long,
- Ezekiel 48:31הָעִ֗יר · of the city…the gates of the city will be named after the tribes of Israel. On the north side there will be three gates: the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah, and the gate of Levi.
- Ezekiel 48:35הָעִ֥יר · of the city [will be]The perimeter of the city will be 18,000 cubits, and from that day on the name of the city will be: THE LORD IS THERE.”
- Daniel 9:16מֵעִֽירְךָ֥ · from Your cityO Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
- Daniel 9:18וְהָעִ֕יר · of the cityIncline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.
- Daniel 9:19עִירְךָ֖ · Your cityO Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”
- Daniel 9:24עִ֣יר · citySeventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- Daniel 9:26וְהָעִ֨יר · the cityThen after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.