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:
Hosea 8:14: "cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces"
Hosea 11:6: "And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels."
Hosea 11:9: "in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city."
Hosea 13:10: "where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give"
Joel 2:9: "They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at"
Amos 3:6: "Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil"
Amos 3:6: "be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done"
Amos 4:6: "you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places:"
Amos 4:7: "and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another"
Amos 4:7: "and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon,"
Amos 4:8: "So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink"
Amos 4:8: "wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied:"
Amos 5:3: "saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred,"
Amos 6:8: "and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein."
Amos 7:17: "the LORD; Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword,"
Amos 9:14: "of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink"
Obadiah 1:20: "is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south."
Jonah 1:2: "to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness"
Jonah 3:2: "unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching"
Jonah 3:3: "was an exceeding great city of three days' journey."
Jonah 3:4: "And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried,"
Jonah 4:5: "So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city,"
Jonah 4:5: "the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth,"
Jonah 4:5: "till he might see what would become of the city."
Jonah 4:11: "spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more"
Micah 5:11: "And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strongholds:"
Micah 5:14: "thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities."
Micah 6:9: "The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear"
Micah 7:12: "thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river,"
Nahum 3:1: "Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey"
Habakkuk 2:12: "Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!"
Zephaniah 1:16: "and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers."
Zephaniah 2:15: "This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I"
Zephaniah 3:1: "to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!"
Zephaniah 3:6: "I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no"
Zechariah 1:12: "not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation"
Zechariah 1:17: "saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad;"
Zechariah 7:7: "was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?"
Zechariah 8:3: "of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts"
Zechariah 8:5: "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets"
Zechariah 8:20: "people, and the inhabitants of many cities:"
Zechariah 14:2: "against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women"
Zechariah 14:2: "and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people"
Zechariah 14:2: "shall not be cut off from the city."
