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Word Study · Strong's H5892 · Hebrew

עִיר

ir

eer

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻîyr

a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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 as

Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.

  • 1,090
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 157
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 157

  • הָעִ֖יר33
  • הָעִ֔יר31
  • הָעִ֑יר26
  • הָעִיר֙20
  • עָרֵ֣י20
  • עָרִ֖ים19
  • עָרִ֥ים19
  • עִ֣יר18
  • הָעִֽיר׃16
  • הֶעָרִ֖ים10
  • עָרֵ֥י10
  • עִ֥יר9

and 145 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 74

  • the city158
  • the cities50
  • cities49
  • [the] cities of32
  • [the] city of26
  • city his15
  • a city12
  • in the city10
  • of the city10
  • citi[es]7
  • cities their7
  • a city of6

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 37

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular159
  • noun · masculine plural55
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural52
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)38
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)37
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular30
  • noun · feminine singular23
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular16
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)12
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)10
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural7
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular6
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 159
  • HNcmpa · 55
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 52
  • HNcfsc · 38
  • HNcmpc · 37
  • HRd/Ncfsa · 30
  • HNcfsa · 23
  • HNcfsc/Sp3ms · 16
  • HR/Ncfsc · 12
  • HR/Ncmpc · 10
  • HNcmpc/Sp3mp · 7
  • HR/Ncfsa · 6

The first 500 of 1,090, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Joshua carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis48 occurrences
Exodus3 occurrences
Leviticus14 occurrences
Numbers49 occurrences
Deuteronomy57 occurrences
Joshua157 occurrences
Judges55 occurrences
Ruth4 occurrences
1 Samuel38 occurrences
2 Samuel45 occurrences
1 Kings10 occurrences
Psalms20 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled עִיר

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).