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:
Judges 9:35: "and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that"
Judges 9:43: "the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote"
Judges 9:44: "and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon"
Judges 9:45: "And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took"
Judges 9:45: "day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down"
Judges 9:45: "that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt."
Judges 9:51: "a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men"
Judges 9:51: "and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and got them up to"
Judges 10:4: "thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair unto this"
Judges 11:26: "and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon,"
Judges 11:33: "even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards,"
Judges 12:7: "Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead."
Judges 14:18: "And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down,"
Judges 16:2: "for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying,"
Judges 16:3: "at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts,"
Judges 17:8: "And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehem-judah to sojourn"
Judges 18:27: "them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire."
Judges 18:28: "that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt"
Judges 18:29: "And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who"
Judges 18:29: "unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first."
Judges 19:11: "and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge"
Judges 19:12: "him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children"
Judges 19:15: "and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house"
Judges 19:17: "a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither"
Judges 19:22: "were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons"
Judges 20:11: "of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man."
Judges 20:14: "of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against"
Judges 20:15: "were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand"
Judges 20:31: "the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people,"
Judges 20:32: "Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways."
Judges 20:37: "and smote all the city with the edge of the sword."
Judges 20:38: "with smoke rise up out of the city."
Judges 20:40: "began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked"
Judges 20:40: "behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven."
Judges 20:42: "but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst"
Judges 20:48: "them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all"
Judges 20:48: "also they set on fire all the cities that they came to."
Judges 21:23: "their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt"
Ruth 1:19: "when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this"
Ruth 2:18: "And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned:"
Ruth 3:15: "and laid it on her: and she went into the city."
Ruth 4:2: "ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here."
1 Samuel 1:3: "And this man went up out of his city yearly"
1 Samuel 4:13: "the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city"
1 Samuel 4:13: "came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out."
1 Samuel 5:9: "they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction:"
1 Samuel 5:9: "destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great,"
1 Samuel 5:11: "a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy"
1 Samuel 5:12: "were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven."
1 Samuel 6:18: "mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities,"
