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
- Joshua 15:57עָרִ֥ים · citiesKain, Gibeah, and Timnah—ten cities, along with their villages.
- Joshua 15:59עָרִ֥ים · citiesMaarath, Beth-anoth, and Eltekon—six cities, along with their villages.
- Joshua 15:60עָרִ֥ים · citiesKiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah—two cities, along with their villages.
- Joshua 15:62עָרִ֥ים · citiesNibshan, the City of Salt, and En-gedi—six cities, along with their villages.
- Joshua 16:9וְהֶעָרִ֗ים; הֶעָרִ֖ים · the cities…along with all the cities and villages set apart for the descendants of Ephraim within the inheritance of Manasseh.
- Joshua 17:9עָרִ֤ים · There were cities; עָרֵ֣י · the citiesFrom there the border continued southward to the Brook of Kanah. There were cities belonging to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh, but the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook and ended at the Sea.
- Joshua 17:12הֶֽעָרִ֣ים · citiesBut the descendants of Manasseh were unable to occupy these cities, because the Canaanites were determined to stay in this land.
- Joshua 18:9לֶֽעָרִ֛ים · city by citySo the men departed and went throughout the land, mapping it city by city into seven portions. Then they returned with the document to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.
- Joshua 18:14עִ֖יר · a cityOn the west side the border curved southward from the hill facing Beth-horon on the south and came out at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the western side.
- Joshua 18:21הֶֽעָרִ֗ים · the citiesThese were the cities of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin: Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,
- Joshua 18:24עָרִ֥ים · citiesChephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba—twelve cities, along with their villages.
- Joshua 18:28עָרִ֥ים · citiesZelah, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities, along with their villages. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Joshua 19:6עָרִ֥ים · citiesBeth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen cities, along with their villages.
- Joshua 19:7עָרִ֥ים · citiesAin, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four cities, along with their villages,
- Joshua 19:8הֶֽעָרִ֣ים · cities…and all the villages surrounding these cities as far as Baalath-beer (Ramah of the Negev). This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Simeon.
- Joshua 19:15עָרִ֥ים · citiesIt also included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. There were twelve cities, along with their villages.
- Joshua 19:16הֶֽעָרִ֥ים · citiesThis was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Zebulun, including these cities and their villages.
- Joshua 19:22עָרִ֥ים · citiesThe border reached Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. There were sixteen cities, along with their villages.
- Joshua 19:23הֶעָרִ֖ים · including [these] citiesThis was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Issachar, including these cities and their villages.
- Joshua 19:29עִ֖יר · cityThe border then turned back toward Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre, turned toward Hosah, and came out at the Sea in the region of Achzib,
- Joshua 19:30עָרִ֛ים · citiesUmmah, Aphek, and Rehob. There were twenty-two cities, along with their villages.
- Joshua 19:31הֶעָרִ֥ים · citiesThis was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Asher, including these cities and their villages.
- Joshua 19:35וְעָרֵ֖י · citiesThe fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,
- Joshua 19:38עָרִ֥ים · citiesIron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh. There were nineteen cities, along with their villages.
- Joshua 19:39הֶעָרִ֖ים · including [these] citiesThis was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Naphtali, including these cities and their villages.
- Joshua 19:48הֶֽעָרִ֥ים · citiesThis was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Dan, including these cities and their villages.
- Joshua 19:50הָעִיר֙ · the city; הָעִ֖יר · the city…as the LORD had commanded. They gave him the city of Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, as he requested. He rebuilt the city and settled in it.
- Joshua 20:2עָרֵ֣י · the cities“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
- Joshua 20:4מֵהֶעָרִ֣ים · cities; הָעִ֔יר · of the city; הָעִֽיר; הָעִ֙ירָה֙ · into the cityWhen someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.
- Joshua 20:6בָּעִ֣יר · city; עִירוֹ֙ · the city; הָעִ֖ירHe is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the manslayer may return to his own home in the city from which he fled.”
- Joshua 20:9עָרֵ֨י · the citiesThese are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.
- Joshua 21:2עָרִ֖ים · cities…at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said to them, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities in which to live, together with pasturelands for our livestock.”
- Joshua 21:3הֶעָרִ֥ים · citiesSo by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance:
- Joshua 21:4עָרִ֖ים · citiesThe first lot came out for the Kohathite clans. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received thirteen cities by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.
- Joshua 21:5עָרִ֥ים · citiesThe remaining descendants of Kohath received ten cities by lot from the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
- Joshua 21:6עָרִ֖ים · citiesThe descendants of Gershon received thirteen cities by lot from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
- Joshua 21:7עָרִ֖ים · citiesAnd the descendants of Merari received twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.
- Joshua 21:8הֶעָרִ֥ים · citiesSo the Israelites allotted to the Levites these cities, together with their pasturelands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
- Joshua 21:9הֶֽעָרִ֣ים · citiesFrom the tribes of Judah and Simeon, they designated these cities by name
- Joshua 21:12הָעִ֖יר · around the cityBut they had given the fields and villages around the city to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.
- Joshua 21:13עִיר֙ · a citySo to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave these cities, together with their pasturelands: Hebron, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah,
- Joshua 21:16עָרִ֣ים · citiesAin, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine cities from these two tribes, together with their pasturelands.