Strong's Concordance H5892

Original Word: עִיר
Transliteration: ʻîyr
Phonetic Spelling: eer
or (in the plural) עָר; or עָיַר; (Judges 10:4), from H5782; a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post); Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.

Usages throughout the bible

1 Kings 4:13 - The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities H5892 with walls and brasen bars:

1 Kings 8:1 - Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city H5892 of David, which is Zion.

1 Kings 8:16 - Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city H5892 out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

1 Kings 8:44 - If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city H5892 which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

1 Kings 8:48 - And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city H5892 which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

1 Kings 9:11 - (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities H5892 in the land of Galilee.

1 Kings 9:12 - And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities H5892 which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

1 Kings 9:13 - And he said, What cities H5892 are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.

1 Kings 9:16 - For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, H5892 and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.

1 Kings 9:19 - And all the cities H5892 of store that Solomon had, and cities H5892 for his chariots, and cities H5892 for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

1 Kings 9:24 - But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city H5892 of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

1 Kings 10:26 - And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities H5892 for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.

1 Kings 11:27 - And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city H5892 of David his father.

1 Kings 11:32 - (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city H5892 which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)

1 Kings 11:36 - And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city H5892 which I have chosen me to put my name there.

1 Kings 11:43 - And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city H5892 of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 12:17 - But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities H5892 of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

1 Kings 13:25 - And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city H5892 where the old prophet dwelt.

1 Kings 13:29 - And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, H5892 to mourn and to bury him.

1 Kings 13:32 - For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities H5892 of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

1 Kings 14:11 - Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city H5892 shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.

1 Kings 14:12 - Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, H5892 the child shall die.

1 Kings 14:21 - And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city H5892 which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

1 Kings 14:31 - And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city H5892 of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 15:8 - And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city H5892 of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 15:20 - So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities H5892 of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

1 Kings 15:23 - The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities H5892 which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

1 Kings 15:24 - And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city H5892 of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 16:4 - Him that dieth of Baasha in the city H5892 shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.

1 Kings 16:18 - And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city H5892 was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,

1 Kings 16:24 - And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city H5892 which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.

1 Kings 17:10 - So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, H5892 behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

1 Kings 20:2 - And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, H5892 and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,

1 Kings 20:12 - And it came to pass, when Benhadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city. H5892

1 Kings 20:19 - So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, H5892 and the army which followed them.

1 Kings 20:30 - But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; H5892 and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, H5892 into an inner chamber.

1 Kings 20:34 - And Benhadad said unto him, The cities, H5892 which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.

1 Kings 21:8 - So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, H5892 dwelling with Naboth.

1 Kings 21:11 - And the men of his city, H5892 even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, H5892 did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.

1 Kings 21:13 - And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, H5892 and stoned him with stones, that he died.

1 Kings 21:24 - Him that dieth of Ahab in the city H5892 the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.

2 Kings 2:19 - And the men of the city H5892 said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city H5892 is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.

2 Kings 2:23 - And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, H5892 and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

2 Kings 3:19 - And ye shall smite every fenced city, H5892 and every choice city, H5892 and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

2 Kings 3:25 - And they beat down the cities, H5892 and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

2 Kings 6:14 - Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city H5892 about.

2 Kings 6:15 - And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city H5892 both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

2 Kings 6:19 - And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: H5892 follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.

2 Kings 7:4 - If we say, We will enter into the city, H5892 then the famine is in the city, H5892 and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

2 Kings 7:10 - So they came and called unto the porter of the city: H5892 and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.