H5892 · עִיר
ʻîyr · eer · city, town
H5892 (ʻîyr, pronounced eer) is the Hebrew word עִיר in Strong’s dictionary: a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post). It appears 1094 times in 937 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- עִיר (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- ʻîyr
- Pronunciation
- eer
- Derivation
- or (in the plural) עָר; or עָיַר; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 (עוּר)
- Definition
- a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
- Rendered in the KJV
- Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
1094 occurrences in 937 verses (1045 with English words of their own, 49 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “the city” ×151
- “cities” ×147
- “city” ×121
- “of the city” ×69
- “the cities” ×58
- “in the city” ×37
- “in the cities” ×28
- “a city” ×24
By book
Genesis 41 · Exodus 3 · Leviticus 12 · Numbers 35 · Deuteronomy 51 · Joshua 128 · Judges 49 · Ruth 4 · 1 Samuel 32 · 2 Samuel 43 · 1 Kings 47 · 2 Kings 53 · 1 Chronicles 36 · 2 Chronicles 74 · Ezra 4 · Nehemiah 18 · Esther 11 · Job 2 · Psalms 19 · Proverbs 4 · Ecclesiastes 5 · Song of Solomon 3 · Isaiah 42 · Jeremiah 118 · Lamentations 6 · Ezekiel 54 · Daniel 6 · Hosea 4 · Joel 1 · Amos 8 · Obadiah 1 · Jonah 6 · Micah 4 · Nahum 1 · Habakkuk 1 · Zephaniah 4 · Zechariah 7
First 30 of 937 verses
- Genesis 4:17
- Genesis 10:12
- Genesis 11:4
- Genesis 11:5
- Genesis 11:8
- Genesis 13:12
- Genesis 18:24
- Genesis 18:26
- Genesis 18:28
- Genesis 19:4
- Genesis 19:12
- Genesis 19:14
- Genesis 19:15
- Genesis 19:16
- Genesis 19:20
- Genesis 19:21
- Genesis 19:22
- Genesis 19:25
- Genesis 19:29
- Genesis 23:10
- Genesis 23:18
- Genesis 24:10
- Genesis 24:11
- Genesis 24:13
- Genesis 26:33
- Genesis 28:19
- Genesis 33:18
- Genesis 34:20
- Genesis 34:24
- Genesis 34:25
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H5892.