H5892 עִיר
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 1,081 KJV occurrences
עִיר
ʻîyr · eer
Definition
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV Renderings
Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Derivation / Etymology
or (in the plural) עָר; or עָיַר; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 (עוּר)
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 1,081)
- Genesis 4:17And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
- Deuteronomy 9:1Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
- Joshua 19:29And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:
- 1 Samuel 9:14And they went up into the city: and when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.
- 2 Kings 10:2Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master’s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
- 2 Chronicles 21:20Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
- Isaiah 37:33Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
- Jeremiah 48:8And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.