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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:

Joshua 8:11: "and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai:"
Joshua 8:12: "Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city."
Joshua 8:13: "the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west"
Joshua 8:13: "was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went"
Joshua 8:14: "it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle,"
Joshua 8:14: "that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city."
Joshua 8:16: "Joshua, and were drawn away from the city."
Joshua 8:17: "after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after"
Joshua 8:18: "that he had in his hand toward the city."
Joshua 8:19: "and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set"
Joshua 8:19: "and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire."
Joshua 8:20: "them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no"
Joshua 8:21: "the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended,"
Joshua 8:21: "the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew"
Joshua 8:22: "And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel,"
Joshua 8:27: "the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD"
Joshua 8:29: "from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise"
Joshua 9:17: "journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon,"
Joshua 9:17: "their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim."
Joshua 10:2: "because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because"
Joshua 10:2: "city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than"
Joshua 10:19: "them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered"
Joshua 10:20: "them entered into fenced cities."
Joshua 10:37: "of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left"
Joshua 10:39: "And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed"
Joshua 11:12: "And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take,"
Joshua 11:13: "But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none"
Joshua 11:14: "And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey"
Joshua 11:19: "There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel,"
Joshua 11:21: "the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities."
Joshua 13:9: "is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river,"
Joshua 13:10: "And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon,"
Joshua 13:16: "is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river,"
Joshua 13:17: "Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,"
Joshua 13:21: "And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites,"
Joshua 13:23: "of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages"
Joshua 13:25: "was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children"
Joshua 13:28: "of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages."
Joshua 13:30: "of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:"
Joshua 13:31: "Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children"
Joshua 14:4: "unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle"
Joshua 14:12: "how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD"
Joshua 15:9: "of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border"
Joshua 15:21: "And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast"
Joshua 15:32: "and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:"
Joshua 15:36: "and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:"
Joshua 15:41: "and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:"
Joshua 15:44: "and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:"
Joshua 15:51: "and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:"
Joshua 15:54: "is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:"









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