Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H5894
עִיר
ireer
watcher
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻîyr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5894is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5894
a watcher, i.e. an angel (as guardian)
The King James renders it: watcher.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ir is rendered "watcher". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 4:13As I lay on my bed, I also saw in the visions of my mind a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
As I lay on my bed, I also saw in the visions of my mind a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven.
Daniel 4:13עִ֣יר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a watcher2
- watchers1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עִיר | ir | excitement | Uses1,090 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- עִ֣יר2
- עִירִין֙1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine or feminine singular2ANcbsa
- noun · masculine plural1ANcmpa
Daniel
three uses
As I lay on my bed, I also saw in the visions of my mind a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven.
- עִ֣ירʾirnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a watcher
This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’
- עִירִין֙ʾirinnoun · masculine pluraltagged: watchers
And you, O king, saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying: ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and graze with the beasts of the field till seven times pass him by.’
- עִ֣ירʾirnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a watcher
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.