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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:

Jeremiah 44:6: "and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are"
Jeremiah 44:17: "unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah,"
Jeremiah 44:21: "The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye,"
Jeremiah 46:8: "and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants"
Jeremiah 47:2: "flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry,"
Jeremiah 48:8: "shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley"
Jeremiah 48:8: "every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain"
Jeremiah 48:9: "that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any"
Jeremiah 48:15: "Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter,"
Jeremiah 48:24: "Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near."
Jeremiah 48:28: "O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove"
Jeremiah 49:1: "Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?"
Jeremiah 49:13: "a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes."
Jeremiah 49:25: "How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!"
Jeremiah 50:32: "shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about"
Jeremiah 51:31: "the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,"
Jeremiah 51:43: " Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein"
Jeremiah 52:5: " So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king"
Jeremiah 52:6: "day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people"
Jeremiah 52:7: " Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city"
Jeremiah 52:7: "of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate"
Jeremiah 52:7: "the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way"
Jeremiah 52:15: "of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell"
Jeremiah 52:25: "He took also out of the city a eunuch, which had the charge"
Jeremiah 52:25: "the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host,"
Jeremiah 52:25: "of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city."
Lamentations 1:1: "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow!"
Lamentations 1:19: "me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve"
Lamentations 2:12: "when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers'"
Lamentations 2:15: "at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection"
Lamentations 3:51: "mine heart because of all the daughters of my city."
Lamentations 5:11: "the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah."
Ezekiel 4:1: "it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:"
Ezekiel 4:3: "it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against"
Ezekiel 5:2: "with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take"
Ezekiel 6:6: "In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars"
Ezekiel 7:15: "is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour"
Ezekiel 7:23: "is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence."
Ezekiel 9:1: "voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon"
Ezekiel 9:4: "unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark"
Ezekiel 9:5: "in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare,"
Ezekiel 9:7: "go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city."
Ezekiel 9:9: "great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for"
Ezekiel 10:2: "from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight."
Ezekiel 11:2: "wicked counsel in this city:"
Ezekiel 11:6: "Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain."
Ezekiel 11:23: "went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain"
Ezekiel 11:23: "upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city."
Ezekiel 12:20: " And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that"
Ezekiel 17:4: "a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants."









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