Midvash

עִירʻîyr

עִיר: excitement (Jeremiah 15:9; Hosea 11:9; Psalms 73:20)

Pronunciation: eer · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5892

Meanings

עִיר: city, town

1. city, town, abode of men (Genesis 4:17; Genesis 10:12; Ecclesiastes 9:14)

a. fortified city (of) Tyre (2 Samuel 20:6; Joshua 19:29; Psalms 31:22)

d. royal cities, al šarri (Joshua 10:2; 1 Samuel 27:5; 2 Samuel 12:26)

e. storage-cities (Exodus 1:11; 1 Kings 9:19; 2 Chronicles 8:6)

f. asylum-cities (Numbers 35:11; Numbers 35:13; Numbers 35:14)

h. city (1 Samuel 4:13; 1 Samuel 5:12; Isaiah 22:2)

i. city of merchants, city for dwelling (Ezekiel 17:4; Psalms 107:4; Psalms 107:7)

2. of fortress in a city especially עִיר דָּוִד (2 Samuel 5:7; 2 Samuel 5:9; 2 Samuel 6:10)

3. apparently fortified place, of any size (2 Kings 17:9; 2 Kings 18:8; Numbers 13:9)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 1,089 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 4:17 Cain had sexual relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain founded a city, which he named Enoch, after his son.
  • Genesis 10:12 and Resen (the great city located between Nineveh and Calah).
  • Genesis 11:4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”
  • Genesis 11:5 But the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building.
  • Genesis 11:8 In that way, the Lord scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city.
  • Genesis 13:12 So Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot moved his tents to a place near Sodom and settled among the cities of the plain.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).