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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- Numbers 35:11 (2×)עָרִ֔ים · cities; עָרֵ֥י · cities…designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
- Numbers 35:12הֶעָרִ֛ים · these citiesYou are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.
- Numbers 35:13 (2×)וְהֶעָרִ֖ים · The cities; עָרֵ֥י · citiesThe cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
- Numbers 35:14 (3×)הֶעָרִ֗ים · cities; הֶֽעָרִ֔ים; עָרֵ֥י · citiesSelect three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
- Numbers 35:15הֶעָרִ֥ים · citiesThese six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
- Numbers 35:25עִ֥יר · the cityThe assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
- Numbers 35:26עִ֣יר · of the cityBut if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled
- Numbers 35:27עִ֣יר · of his city…and the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,
- Numbers 35:28בְעִ֤יר · in his city…because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.
- Numbers 35:32עִ֣יר · a cityNor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.
- Deuteronomy 1:22הֶֽעָרִ֔ים · and which citiesThen all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”
- Deuteronomy 1:28עָרִ֛ים · the citiesWhere can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
- Deuteronomy 2:34 (2×)עָרָיו֙ · his cities; עִ֣יר · cityAt that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.
- Deuteronomy 2:35הֶעָרִ֖ים · from the citiesWe carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.
- Deuteronomy 2:36וְהָעִ֨יר · along with the cityFrom Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
- Deuteronomy 2:37וְעָרֵ֣י · or the citiesBut you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.
- Deuteronomy 3:4 (2×)עָרָיו֙; עִיר֙ · of his citiesAt that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Deuteronomy 3:5 (2×)עָרִ֧ים · cities; מֵעָרֵ֥יAll these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.
- Deuteronomy 3:6עִ֣יר · cityWe devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
- Deuteronomy 3:7הֶעָרִ֖ים · of the citiesBut all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.
- Deuteronomy 3:10 (2×)עָרֵ֣י · the cities; עָרֵ֛י · the cities…all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.
- Deuteronomy 3:12וְעָרָ֔יו · along with its citiesSo at that time we took possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with its cities.
- Deuteronomy 3:19בְּעָ֣רֵיכֶ֔ם · in the citiesBut your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain in the cities I have given you,
- Deuteronomy 4:41עָרִ֔ים · citiesThen Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east
- Deuteronomy 4:42הֶעָרִ֥ים · cities…to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
- Deuteronomy 6:10עָרִ֛ים · citiesAnd when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
- Deuteronomy 9:1עָרִ֛ים · citiesHear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
- Deuteronomy 13:12עָרֶ֗יךָ · of the citiesIf, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said
- Deuteronomy 13:13עִירָ֖ם · of their city…that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),
- Deuteronomy 13:15הָעִ֥יר · city…you must surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword. Devote to destruction all its people and livestock.
- Deuteronomy 13:16הָעִ֤יר · the cityAnd you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.
- Deuteronomy 19:1בְעָרֵיהֶ֖ם · in their citiesWhen the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
- Deuteronomy 19:2עָרִ֖ים · cities…then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
- Deuteronomy 19:5הֶעָרִים־ · citiesIf he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
- Deuteronomy 19:7עָרִ֖ים · citiesThis is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
- Deuteronomy 19:9עָרִ֔ים · cities…and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.
- Deuteronomy 19:11הֶעָרִ֥ים · citiesIf, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,
- Deuteronomy 19:12עִיר֔וֹ · of his city…the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.
- Deuteronomy 20:10עִ֔יר · a cityWhen you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.
- Deuteronomy 20:14בָעִ֛יר · in the cityBut the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 20:15 (2×)הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים · the cities; מֵעָרֵ֥יThis is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.