Strong's H5892

עִיר

Language:: Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament)

Definition

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

Derivation

or (in the plural) עָר; or עָיַר; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 (עוּר)

KJV Translation

In the King James Version, עִיר is translated as: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town..

About Strong's Concordance

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Hebrew and Aramaic root word in the Old Testament. The Hebrew dictionary covers all 8,674 root words. This entry is in the public domain.