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. Daniel 11:15עִ֣יר · city
    Then the king of the North will come, build up a siege ramp, and capture a fortified city. The forces of the South will not stand; even their best troops will not be able to resist.
  2. Hosea 8:14עָרִ֣ים · cities; בְּעָרָ֔יו · upon their cities
    Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.
  3. Hosea 11:6בְּעָרָ֔יו · through their cities
    A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.
  4. Hosea 11:9בְּעִֽיר׃ · in wrath
    I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not destroy Ephraim again. For I am God and not man—the Holy One among you—and I will not come in wrath.
  5. Hosea 13:10עָרֶ֑יךָ · your cities
    Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?
  6. Joel 2:9בָּעִ֣יר · the city
    They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.
  7. Amos 3:6בְּעִ֔יר · in a city; בְּעִ֔יר · to a city
    If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
  8. Amos 4:6עָ֣רֵיכֶ֔ם · your cities
    “I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
  9. Amos 4:7עִ֣יר · city; עִ֥יר
    “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
  10. Amos 4:8עָרִ֜ים · from city; עִ֥יר · city
    People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
  11. Amos 5:3הָעִ֛יר · The city
    This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will have but a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
  12. Amos 6:8עִ֥יר · the city
    The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
  13. Amos 7:17בָּעִ֤יר · in the city
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
  14. Amos 9:14עָרִ֤ים · cities
    I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
  15. Obadiah 1:20עָרֵ֥י · the cities
    And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.
  16. Jonah 1:2הָעִ֥יר · city
    “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
  17. Jonah 3:2הָעִ֣יר · city
    “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
  18. Jonah 3:3עִיר־ · city
    This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.
  19. Jonah 3:4בָעִ֔יר · into the city
    On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”
  20. Jonah 4:5הָעִ֔יר · the city; לָעִ֑יר; בָּעִֽיר׃ · to the city
    Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.
  21. Jonah 4:11הָעִ֣יר · city
    So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
  22. Micah 5:11עָרֵ֣י · the cities
    I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds.
  23. Micah 5:14עָרֶֽיךָ׃ · your cities
    I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.
  24. Micah 6:9לָעִ֣יר · to the city
    The voice of the LORD calls out to the city (and it is sound wisdom to fear Your name): “Heed the rod and the One who ordained it.
  25. Micah 7:12וְעָרֵ֣י · and the cities
    On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates, from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
  26. Nahum 3:1עִ֣יר · to the city
    Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
  27. Habakkuk 2:12עִ֖יר · a city
    Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
  28. Zephaniah 1:16הֶעָרִ֣ים · cities
    …a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.
  29. Zephaniah 2:15הָעִ֤יר · city
    This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
  30. Zephaniah 3:1הָעִ֖יר · to the city
    Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
  31. Zephaniah 3:6עָרֵיהֶ֛ם · Their cities
    “I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.
  32. Zechariah 1:12עָרֵ֣י · and the cities
    Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
  33. Zechariah 1:17עָרַ֖י · My cities
    Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”
  34. Zechariah 7:7וְעָרֶ֖יהָ · towns
    Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
  35. Zechariah 8:3עִ֣יר־ · the City
    This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”
  36. Zechariah 8:5הָעִיר֙ · of the city
    And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”
  37. Zechariah 8:20עָרִ֥ים · cities
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—
  38. Zechariah 14:2הָעִ֗יר · and the city; הָעִיר֙ · of the city; הָעִֽיר׃ · the city
    For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.