עִיר
ir
1. excitement, anguish
a. of terror
1. city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
a. city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
a. city, town
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- Joshua 6:16 הָעִֽיר׃
After the seventh time around, the priests blew the horns, and Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!
- Joshua 6:17 הָעִ֥יר
Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
- Joshua 6:20 הָעִ֙ירָה֙הָעִֽיר׃
So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.
- Joshua 6:21 בָּעִ֔יר
At the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.
- Joshua 6:24 וְהָעִ֛יר
Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.
- Joshua 6:26 הָעִ֤יר
At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”
- Joshua 8:1 עִיר֖וֹ
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
- Joshua 8:2 לָעִ֖יר
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”
- Joshua 8:4 לָעִיר֙הָעִ֔ירהָעִ֖יר
with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.
- Joshua 8:5 הָעִ֑יר
Then I and all the troops with me will advance on the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.
- Joshua 8:6 הָעִ֔יר
They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,
- Joshua 8:7 הָעִ֑יר
you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
- Joshua 8:8 הָעִ֗ירהָעִיר֙
And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders.”
- Joshua 8:11 הָעִ֑יר
Then all the troops who were with him marched up and approached the city. They arrived in front of Ai and camped to the north of it, with the valley between them and the city.
- Joshua 8:12 לָעִֽיר׃
Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
- Joshua 8:13 לָעִ֔ירלָעִ֑יר
So the forces were stationed with the main camp to the north of the city and the rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.
- Joshua 8:14 הָעִ֣ירהָעִֽיר׃
When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.
- Joshua 8:16 בָּעִירהָעִֽיר׃
Then all the men of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they followed Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
- Joshua 8:17 הָעִיר֙
Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel.
- Joshua 8:18 הָעִֽיר׃
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out your battle lance toward Ai, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out his battle lance toward Ai,
- Joshua 8:19 הָעִ֖ירהָעִ֖יר
and as soon as he did so, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They rushed forward, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.
- Joshua 8:20 הָעִיר֙
When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.
- Joshua 8:21 הָעִ֔ירהָעִ֑יר
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.
- Joshua 8:22 הָעִיר֙
Meanwhile, those in the ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces on both sides. So Israel struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained.
- Joshua 8:27 הָעִ֣יר
Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.
- Joshua 8:29 הָעִ֔יר
He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.
- Joshua 9:17 עָרֵיהֶ֖םוְעָרֵיהֶם֙
So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
- Joshua 10:2 עִ֤ירעָרֵ֣י
So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
- Joshua 10:19 עָ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם
But you, do not stop there. Pursue your enemies and attack them from behind. Do not let them reach their cities, for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.”
- Joshua 10:20 עָרֵ֥י
So Joshua and the Israelites continued to inflict a terrible slaughter until they had finished them off, and the remaining survivors retreated to the fortified cities.
- Joshua 10:37 עָרֶ֜יהָ
They captured it and put to the sword its king, all its villages, and all the people. Joshua left no survivors, just as he had done at Eglon; he devoted to destruction Hebron and everyone in it.
- Joshua 10:39 עָרֶ֙יהָ֙
And they captured Debir, its king, and all its villages. They put them to the sword and devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. Joshua did to Debir and its king as he had done to Hebron and as he had done to Libnah and its king.
- Joshua 11:12 עָרֵ֣י
Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and put them to the sword. He devoted them to destruction, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.
- Joshua 11:13 הֶעָרִ֗ים
Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.
- Joshua 11:14 הֶעָרִ֤ים
The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.
- Joshua 11:19 עִ֗יר
No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.
- Joshua 11:21 עָרֵיהֶ֖ם
At that time Joshua proceeded to eliminate the Anakim from the hill country of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction, along with their cities.
- Joshua 13:9 וְהָעִ֨יר
The area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,
- Joshua 13:10 עָרֵי֙
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the Ammonites;
- Joshua 13:16 וְהָעִ֨יר
The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, to the whole plateau beyond Medeba,
- Joshua 13:17 עָרֶ֖יהָ
to Heshbon and all its cities on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,
- Joshua 13:21 עָרֵ֣י
all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.
- Joshua 13:23 הֶעָרִ֖ים
And the border of the Reubenites was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the clans of the Reubenites, including the cities and villages.
- Joshua 13:25 עָרֵ֣י
The territory of Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;
- Joshua 13:28 הֶעָרִ֖ים
This was the inheritance of the clans of the Gadites, including the cities and villages.
- Joshua 13:30 עִֽיר׃
The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;
- Joshua 13:31 עָרֵ֛י
half of Gilead; and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the royal cities of Og in Bashan. All this was for the clans of the descendants of Machir son of Manasseh, that is, half of the descendants of Machir.
- Joshua 14:4 עָרִים֙
The descendants of Joseph became two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion of the land was given to the Levites, except for cities in which to live, along with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.
- Joshua 14:12 וְעָרִים֙
Now therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORD’s help I will drive them out, as the LORD has spoken.”
- Joshua 15:9 עָרֵ֣י
From the hilltop the border curved to the spring of the Waters of Nephtoah, proceeded to the cities of Mount Ephron, and then bent around toward Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).