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עִיר

ʻîyr · eerHebrew · H5892

Derivation

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

Meaning

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

In the King James Version

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

Translated as

city (604), cities (384), town (4), towns (3), one (1)

Where it appears

Found in 869 verses

Exodus
1:11, 9:29, 9:33
Deuteronomy
1:22, 1:28, 2:34, 2:35, 2:36, 2:37, 3:4, 3:5, 3:7, 3:10, 3:12, 3:19, 4:41, 4:42, 6:10, 9:1, 13:12, 13:13, 13:15, 13:16 + 27 more
Joshua
3:16, 6:3, 6:4, 6:5, 6:7, 6:11, 6:14, 6:15, 6:17, 6:20, 6:21, 6:24, 6:26, 8:1, 8:2, 8:4, 8:5, 8:6, 8:7, 8:8 + 89 more
Judges
1:8, 1:16, 1:17, 1:23, 1:24, 1:25, 1:26, 3:13, 6:27, 6:28, 6:30, 8:16, 8:27, 9:30, 9:33, 9:35, 9:43, 9:44, 9:45, 9:51 + 26 more
Ruth
1:19, 2:18, 4:2
1 Samuel
1:3, 4:13, 5:9, 5:11, 5:12, 6:18, 7:14, 8:22, 9:6, 9:10, 9:11, 9:12, 9:13, 9:14, 9:25, 9:27, 10:5, 15:5, 16:4, 18:6 + 12 more
1 Chronicles
1:43, 1:46, 1:50, 2:22, 2:23, 4:31, 4:32, 4:33, 6:56, 6:57, 6:60, 6:61, 6:62, 6:63, 6:64, 6:65, 6:66, 6:67, 9:2, 10:7 + 15 more
2 Chronicles
1:14, 5:2, 6:5, 6:34, 6:38, 8:2, 8:4, 8:5, 8:6, 8:11, 9:25, 9:31, 10:17, 11:5, 11:10, 11:12, 11:23, 12:4, 12:13, 12:16 + 54 more
Ezra
2:70, 3:1, 10:14
Proverbs
1:21, 21:22, 25:28
Ecclesiastes
8:10, 9:14, 9:15
Song of Solomon
3:2, 3:3, 5:7
Jeremiah
1:15, 1:18, 2:15, 2:28, 3:14, 4:7, 4:16, 4:26, 4:29, 5:6, 5:17, 6:6, 7:17, 7:34, 8:14, 8:16, 9:11, 10:22, 11:6, 11:12 + 89 more
Lamentations
1:1, 1:19, 2:12, 2:15, 5:11
Ezekiel
4:1, 4:3, 5:2, 6:6, 7:15, 7:23, 9:1, 9:4, 9:5, 9:9, 10:2, 11:6, 11:23, 12:20, 17:4, 19:7, 22:2, 22:3, 24:6, 24:9 + 29 more
Hosea
8:14, 11:6, 13:10
Joel
2:9
Amos
3:6, 4:6, 4:7, 4:8, 5:3, 6:8, 7:17, 9:14
Obadiah
1:20
Jonah
1:2, 3:2, 3:3, 3:4, 4:5, 4:11
Micah
5:11, 6:9, 7:12
Nahum
3:1
Habakkuk
2:12
Zephaniah
1:16, 2:15, 3:6
Zechariah
1:12, 1:17, 7:7, 8:3, 8:5, 14:2

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