{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5892",
  "lemma": "עִיר",
  "transliteration": "ʻîyr",
  "definition": "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.",
  "occurrences": 1095,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H5782",
      "lemma": "עוּר",
      "transliteration": "ʻûwr",
      "meaning": "to wake",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H5782"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 4:17",
      "text": "Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 10:11",
      "text": "Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/10?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 10:12",
      "text": "and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/10?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 11:4",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 11:5",
      "text": "The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 11:8",
      "text": "So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 13:12",
      "text": "Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:24",
      "text": "What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:26",
      "text": "The LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:28",
      "text": "What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=28"
    }
  ],
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