H5892 עִיר
ʻîyr — a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Derived from עוּר ʻûwr (to wake)
Occurs 1,095 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עִיר 1092 n.f. city, town
- 1 city, town, abode of men
- 2 of fortress in a city
- 3 appar. fortified place, of any size
- עִיר n.[m.]
- עִיר n.[m.] excitement;—of terror; of rage
Where it occurs
- Genesis 4:17 — Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his…
- Genesis 10:11 — Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
- Genesis 10:12 — and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
- Genesis 11:4 — They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for…
- Genesis 11:5 — The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- Genesis 11:8 — So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
- Genesis 13:12 — Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
- Genesis 18:24 — What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who…
- Genesis 18:26 — The LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
- Genesis 18:28 — What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will…