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
- Judges 9:43הָעִ֔יר · the citySo he took his men, divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose up against them and attacked them.
- Judges 9:44הָעִ֑יר · of the cityThen Abimelech and the companies with him rushed forward and took their stand at the entrance of the city gate. The other two companies rushed against all who were in the fields and struck them down.
- Judges 9:45בָּעִ֗יר · against the city; הָעִ֔יר; הָעִ֔יר · the cityAnd all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.
- Judges 9:51הָעִיר֒ · the city; הָעִ֔יר · of the cityBut there was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.
- Judges 10:4עֲיָרִ֖ים · townsHe had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.
- Judges 11:26הֶֽעָרִים֙ · the citiesFor three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time?
- Judges 11:33עִ֗יר · citiesWith a great blow he devastated twenty cities from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.
- Judges 12:7בְּעָרֵ֥י · in one of the citiesJephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
- Judges 14:18הָעִ֜יר · of the cityBefore sunset on the seventh day, the men of the city said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” So he said to them: “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!”
- Judges 16:2הָעִ֑יר · at the cityWhen the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”
- Judges 16:3הָעִיר֙ · of the cityBut Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
- Judges 17:8מֵהָעִ֗יר · the cityThis man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.
- Judges 18:27הָעִ֖יר · the cityAfter they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.
- Judges 18:28הָעִ֖יר · the cityThere was no one to deliver them, because the city was far from Sidon and had no alliance with anyone; it was in a valley near Beth-rehob. And the Danites rebuilt the city and lived there.
- Judges 18:29הָעִיר֙ · [it]; הָעִ֖יר · the cityThey named it Dan, after their forefather Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city was formerly named Laish.
- Judges 19:11עִֽיר־ · cityWhen they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Please, let us stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night here.”
- Judges 19:12עִ֣יר · the cityBut his master replied, “We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”
- Judges 19:15הָעִ֔יר · in the cityThey stopped to go in and lodge in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one would take them into his home for the night.
- Judges 19:17הָעִ֑יר · in the cityWhen he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”
- Judges 19:22הָעִ֜יר · of the cityWhile they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
- Judges 20:11הָעִ֔יר · the citySo all the men of Israel gathered as one man, united against the city.
- Judges 20:14הֶעָרִ֖ים · their citiesAnd from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.
- Judges 20:15מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים · from their citiesOn that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.
- Judges 20:31הָעִ֑יר · the cityThe Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
- Judges 20:32הָעִ֖יר · the city“We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”
- Judges 20:37הָעִ֖יר · cityThe men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.
- Judges 20:38הָעִֽיר׃ · the cityThe men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
- Judges 20:40הָעִ֖יר · the city; הָעִ֖יר · cityBut when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.
- Judges 20:42מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים · coming out of the citiesSo they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
- Judges 20:48מֵעִ֤יר · the cities; הֶעָרִ֥ים · the citiesAnd the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.
- Judges 21:23הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים · their citiesThe Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
- Ruth 1:19הָעִיר֙ · townSo Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women of the town exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
- Ruth 2:18הָעִ֔יר · the townShe picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to Naomi.
- Ruth 3:15הָעִֽיר׃ · into the cityAnd he told her, “Bring the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he poured in six measures of barley and placed it on her. Then he went into the city.
- Ruth 4:2הָעִ֖יר · of the cityThen Boaz took ten of the elders of the city and said, “Sit here,” and they did so.
- 1 Samuel 1:3מֵֽעִירוֹ֙ · from his cityYear after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 4:13בָּעִ֔יר · the city; הָעִֽיר׃ · cityWhen he arrived, there was Eli, sitting on his chair beside the road and watching, because his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the whole city cried out.
- 1 Samuel 5:9בָּעִיר֙ · against that city; הָעִ֔יר · of the cityBut after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.
- 1 Samuel 5:11הָעִ֔יר · the cityThen the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was very heavy upon it.
- 1 Samuel 5:12הָעִ֖יר · of the cityThose who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
- 1 Samuel 6:18עָרֵ֤י · cities; מֵעִ֣יר · citiesThe number of gold rats also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities belonging to the five rulers—the fortified cities and their outlying villages. And the large rock on which they placed the ark of the LORD stands to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.