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.

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. Deuteronomy 20:16מֵעָרֵ֤י · in the cities
    However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
  2. Deuteronomy 20:19עִיר֩ · a city
    When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
  3. Deuteronomy 20:20הָעִיר֙ · the city
    But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
  4. Deuteronomy 21:2הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים · cities
    …your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
  5. Deuteronomy 21:3הָעִ֔יר · of the city; הָעִ֨יר
    Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,
  6. Deuteronomy 21:4הָעִ֨יר
    …bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.
  7. Deuteronomy 21:6הָעִ֣יר · of the city
    Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,
  8. Deuteronomy 21:19עִיר֖וֹ · of his city
    …his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
  9. Deuteronomy 21:20עִיר֗וֹ
    …and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
  10. Deuteronomy 21:21עִיר֤וֹ · of his city
    Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
  11. Deuteronomy 22:15הָעִ֖יר · the city
    Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate
  12. Deuteronomy 22:17הָעִֽיר׃ · the city
    And now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, ‘I discovered that your daughter was not a virgin.’ But here is the proof of her virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the city elders.
  13. Deuteronomy 22:18הָֽעִיר־ · city
    Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.
  14. Deuteronomy 22:21עִירָ֤הּ · of her city
    …she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  15. Deuteronomy 22:23בָּעִ֖יר · in the city
    If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
  16. Deuteronomy 22:24הָעִ֣יר · city; בָעִ֔יר · in the city
    …you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  17. Deuteronomy 25:8עִיר֖וֹ · of his city
    Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”
  18. Deuteronomy 28:3בָּעִ֑יר · in the city
    You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
  19. Deuteronomy 28:16בָּעִ֑יר · in the city
    You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
  20. Deuteronomy 34:3עִ֥יר · the City
    …the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.
  21. Joshua 3:16הָעִיר֙ · a city
    …the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
  22. Joshua 6:3הָעִ֗יר · the city; הָעִ֖יר · the city
    March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.
  23. Joshua 6:4הָעִ֖יר · the city
    Have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark. Then on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.
  24. Joshua 6:5הָעִיר֙ · of the city
    And when there is a long blast of the ram’s horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city.”
  25. Joshua 6:7הָעִ֑יר · the city
    And he told the people, “Advance and march around the city, with the armed troops going ahead of the ark of the LORD.”
  26. Joshua 6:11הָעִ֔יר · the city
    So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. And the people returned to the camp and spent the night there.
  27. Joshua 6:14הָעִ֜יר · the city
    So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
  28. Joshua 6:15הָעִ֛יר · the city; הָעִ֖יר · the city
    Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. That was the only day they circled the city seven times.
  29. Joshua 6:16הָעִֽיר׃ · the city
    After the seventh time around, the priests blew the horns, and Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!
  30. Joshua 6:17הָעִ֥יר · Now the city
    Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
  31. Joshua 6:20הָעִ֙ירָה֙ · into the city; הָעִֽיר׃ · [it]
    So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.
  32. Joshua 6:21בָּעִ֔יר · in the city
    With the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.
  33. Joshua 6:24וְהָעִ֛יר · the city
    Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.
  34. Joshua 6:26הָעִ֤יר · city
    At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”
  35. Joshua 8:1עִיר֖וֹ · his city
    Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
  36. Joshua 8:2לָעִ֖יר · the city
    And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”
  37. Joshua 8:4לָעִיר֙ · the city; הָעִ֔יר · from it; הָעִ֖יר
    …with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.
  38. Joshua 8:5הָעִ֑יר · on the city
    Then I and all the troops with me will advance on the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.
  39. Joshua 8:6הָעִ֔יר · the city
    They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,
  40. Joshua 8:7הָעִ֑יר · the city
    …you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
  41. Joshua 8:8הָעִ֗יר · the city; הָעִיר֙ · set it
    And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders.”
  42. Joshua 8:11הָעִ֑יר · the city
    Then all the troops who were with him marched up and approached the city. They arrived in front of Ai and camped to the north of it, with the valley between them and the city.