Strong's #5892: `iyr (pronounced eer)
or (in the plural) par {awr}; or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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‛ı̂yr / ‛âr / ‛âyar
1) excitement, anguish
1a) of terror
2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
2a) city, town
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1587a, 1615
Usage:
This word is used 1094 times:
Genesis 4:17: "Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city,"
Genesis 4:17: "and he built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch."
Genesis 10:11: "and built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,"
Genesis 10:12: "and Calah: the same is a great city."
Genesis 11:4: "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make"
Genesis 11:5: "came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men"
Genesis 11:8: "the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city."
Genesis 13:12: "of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom."
Genesis 18:24: "fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare"
Genesis 18:26: "fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes."
Genesis 18:28: "wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find"
Genesis 19:4: "But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed"
Genesis 19:12: "and thy sons, and thy daughters? and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:"
Genesis 19:14: "the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law."
Genesis 19:15: "lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
Genesis 19:16: "him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city."
Genesis 19:20: "Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it"
Genesis 19:21: "also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken."
Genesis 19:22: "thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar."
Genesis 19:25: "And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants"
Genesis 19:25: "the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground."
Genesis 19:29: "when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered"
Genesis 19:29: "out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot"
Genesis 23:10: "even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,"
Genesis 23:18: "before all that went in at the gate of his city."
Genesis 24:10: "and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor."
Genesis 24:11: "And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water"
Genesis 24:13: "of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:"
Genesis 26:33: "it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this"
Genesis 28:19: "Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first."
Genesis 33:18: "And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan,"
Genesis 33:18: "from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city."
Genesis 34:20: "came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city,"
Genesis 34:20: "and communed with the men of their city, saying,"
Genesis 34:24: "all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all"
Genesis 34:24: "all that went out of the gate of his city."
Genesis 34:25: "his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males."
Genesis 34:27: "upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister."
Genesis 34:28: "and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,"
Genesis 35:5: "of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue"
Genesis 36:32: "reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah."
Genesis 36:35: "reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith."
Genesis 36:39: "reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel,"
Genesis 41:35: "of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities."
Genesis 41:48: "of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about"
Genesis 41:48: "of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same."
Genesis 44:4: "And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said"
Genesis 44:13: "every man his ass, and returned to the city."
Genesis 47:21: "And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to"
Exodus 1:11: "them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Rameses."
