# H5892 עִיר

עִיר (ʻîyr), Strong’s H5892: 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.. Occurs…

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*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](https://besorah.bible/word/H5782) (to wake)

Occurs 1095 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/10?v=11) — Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
- [Genesis 10:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/10?v=12) — and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
- [Genesis 11:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=5) — The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- [Genesis 11:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=8) — So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
- [Genesis 13:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=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…